{"id":671,"date":"2016-02-29T17:02:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/?p=671"},"modified":"2016-03-01T15:40:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T14:40:17","slug":"legal-changes-on-the-horizon-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/02\/legal-changes-on-the-horizon-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Changes on the Horizon in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The recruitment industry is, according to the REC, in rude health!<\/h3>\n<p>It predicts that in 2016 more than 90% of employers will increase headcount. \u00a0However, one of the significant external influences that is going to hit the sector this year is the National Living Wage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/02\/legal-changes-on-the-horizon-in-2016\/national-living-wage\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-672\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-672\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/national-living-wage-300x167.png\" alt=\"national-living-wage\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/national-living-wage-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/national-living-wage.png 467w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From April 2016\u00a0individuals aged 25 and over will be entitled to receive the National Living Wage of \u00a37.20 per hour, increasing to above \u00a39 per hour by 2020.\u00a0 Overall this is expected to cost employers \u00a3804m-\u00a3672m in wages and \u00a3132m in associated non-wage costs, such as NICs.\u00a0 There is also likely to be a ripple effect as businesses try and maintain pay differentials, estimated to cost employers \u00a359.5m.<\/p>\n<p>The cost to end-clients, allowing for holiday pay and pensions, means either that recruiters will need to increase their pricing to preserve their margin or their margin will be reduced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recruitment industry is, according to the REC, in rude health! It predicts that in 2016 more than 90% of employers will increase headcount. \u00a0However, one of the significant external influences that is going to hit the sector this year is the National Living Wage. From April 2016\u00a0individuals aged 25 and over will be entitled to receive the National Living Wage of \u00a37.20 per hour, increasing to above \u00a39 per hour by 2020.\u00a0 Overall this is expected to cost employers \u00a3804m-\u00a3672m in wages and \u00a3132m in associated non-wage costs, such as NICs.\u00a0 There is also likely to be a ripple&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"summary","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,58,4,54],"tags":[68,60,46,121,53,92,39,19],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-law","category-financial-services-news","category-job","category-recruitment","tag-advisers","tag-employees","tag-employers","tag-employment-law","tag-employment-market-news","tag-financial-services-news","tag-salary","tag-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}