Employers have been able to reclaim Statutory Sick Pay from HMRC, where the total SSP paid in a month exceeds 13% of their Class 1 National Insurance Contributions for that month.  A draft Order abolishing the scheme is going through Parliament and  is expected to take effect on 6 April 2014.
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From 31 January 2014 TUPE has been amended.  Some of the changes are highly technical and are, in fact, less extensive than originally planned. In summary the changes are: The rules on service provision changes (outsourcing/insourcing situations) will remain, but the legislation will clarify that for there to be a TUPE service provision change, the activities carried on after the change in service provision must be fundamentally or essentially the same as those carried on before it. The requirement to provide employee liability information will be retained, but from 1 May 2014 the information will have to be given 28
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