“London Bridge is down” are the words which will be uttered when Queen Elizabeth II passes away to start the ball rolling on communicating the news to the world. It is widely known that news channels practice...
There are lots of steps that can be taken to ease the woes that may lead to considerations of redundancy. Below some of the most popular methods are looked at but there are additional ways, including commercial methods not discussed below, to try and avoid redundancy.
Legal Update The Supreme Court recently confirmed that holiday pay under the Working Time Regulations 1998 should not be pro-rated for part-year or term-time workers. Part-year workers should still receive 5.6 weeks annual leave. Ms Brazel was a part-time music...
What is a fit note and who can issue one? A fit note is an assessment carried out by a health care professional that deems an employee unfit to work or fit enough to work but only in certain conditions, in which case adjustments would be recommended. For the first...
At the end of each annual leave year the inevitable question crops up: “My staff haven’t used all of their annual leave, can they carry it over to next year?”
Zero Hours Workers in Retail Almost every member of the FRA uses zero hours workers but are they being used correctly? Are the workers given the correct contract? Can the workers claim that they are no longer zero hours? Read on to find out more about zero hours...
An apprentice contract is a specific type of contract which needs additional clauses to protect your business. Businesses can be stuck with apprentices on an ‘old fashioned’ style apprentice wherein it’s extremely difficult to end the agreement if the contract is not right.
An employer’s guide to the European Championships. The European Championships finally kick off a year behind schedule on Friday 11 June 2021.
Who pays for staff uniform? It is great that employers can decide their own rules for dress codes and uniforms at work but sometimes, too much choice makes it harder to know what to do! “Should we charge staff for uniforms? Should we limit the number of...