Employment Act 2008 Explanatory Notes

  • Explanatory Notes Table of contents

  1. Introduction

  2. Summary

  3. Background

  4. Territorial Extent

    1. Scotland

    2. Wales

    3. Northern Ireland

  5. Commentary on Sections

    1. Dispute resolution

      1. Section 1: Statutory dispute resolution procedures

      2. Section 2: Procedural fairness

      3. Section 3: Non-compliance with statutory Codes of Practice

      4. Section 4: Determination of proceedings without hearing

      5. Section 5: Conciliation before bringing of proceedings

      6. Section 6: Conciliation after bringing of proceedings

      7. Section 7: Compensation for financial loss

        1. Unlawful deduction from or unauthorised payment of wages

        2. Non-payment of redundancy payments

    2. National Minimum Wage

      1. Section 8: Arrears payable in cases of non-compliance

      2. Section 9: Notices of underpayment

        1. Notices of underpayment: arrears

        2. Notices of underpayment: financial penalty

        3. Suspension of financial penalty

        4. Notices of underpayment: appeals

        5. Non-compliance with notice of underpayment: recovery of arrears

        6. Non-compliance with notice of underpayment: recovery of penalty

        7. Withdrawal of notice of underpayment

        8. Replacement of notice of underpayment

        9. Effect of replacement notice of underpayment

      3. Section 10: Powers of officers to take copies of records

      4. Section 11: Offences: mode of trial and penalties

      5. Section 12: Powers to investigate criminal offences

      6. Section 13: Cadet Force Adult Volunteers

      7. Section 14: Voluntary workers

    3. Employment agencies

      1. Section 15: Offences: mode of trial and penalties

      2. Section 16: Enforcement powers

      3. Section 17: Offences by partnerships in Scotland

    4. Miscellaneous

      1. Section 18: Employment agencies and national minimum wage legislation: information-sharing

      2. Section 19: Exclusion or expulsion from trade union for membership of political party

    5. General

      1. Section 20: Repeals

      2. Section 22: Commencement

  6. Hansard References

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