Most people are aware that it is mandatory to provide employers with a fit note after 7 days sickness absence. These notes normally state whether an employee is fit or more often to return or occasionally may return to work under modified conditions. These are notes are signed by th employee’s GP. In an effort […]
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The need-to-know bits when dealing with employment contracts. Employment contracts are not the most exciting topic in the world, but understanding your options and knowing what to do and when to do it, ensures things are managed quickly and efficiently, without exposure to employment claims. It is important to ensure that your employees’ contracts protect
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Most people are aware that employees need 2 completed years of service to bring an unfair dismissal claim at a tribunal. Less well known is that you need no service to bring a discrimination or whistleblowing claim. Discrimination claims are brought as employees believe they are discriminated against in the workplace because of one or more
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The government’s ‘Living with Covid-19’ plan recently issued is aimed at enabling the country to manage Covid-19 like any other respiratory illness, while retaining the ability to respond if a new, more dangerous variant emerges. Covid is still with us and in fact infections seem to be higher than ever although mercifully hospitalisations and deaths
Ignore Whistleblowing at your peril To bring a Whistleblowing claim an employee does not need 2 years continuous service. It is a day one right both employees and workers can bring a claim. Cases involving automatic unfair dismissal due to whistleblowing are increasingly being brought to tribunals by employees who otherwise would not have sufficient
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Why classifying non employees correctly is so important Every organization has people working within it who are not regular employees. They are normally classified as subcontractors. In employment terms but not necessarily HMRC terms they fall into 2 categories a worker or a genuine subcontractor, each have some employment rights a worker far more than
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PLATINUM JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS There will be an extra Bank Holiday to mark The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee this year and many employers will be questioning if an employee is entitled to this extra days’ holiday. The answer to this question will vary depending on the wording of the employee’s contract. In a standard year, there are
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Why you need a handbook. An organisation’s people are its biggest risk and its greatest asset. It is vital that employers make clear the parameters within which employees should work, and one important part of this involves putting down in writing what behaviour is and is not acceptable.. Having a handbook in place, which is
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SSP REBATE SCHEME (SSPRS) MAKES A RETURN The SSP Rebate Scheme, which reimbursed employers for the sick pay paid to employees due to Covid-19, has been reinstated. The Scheme was created in April 2020 to assist employers with the rising cost of sick pay as employees took time off work because they had Covid, or
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