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How to manage staff holiday requests 1 Aug 2013 | 07:17 pm
For some of us the holiday season is the busiest time of year, but it is often also when employees tend to ask for the most holiday leave. Of course you would like to accommodate all your employees’ r...
How To Obtain References For New Employees 22 Jul 2013 | 02:43 pm
Taking on the wrong person can cost your business money and damage staff moral so it is crucial that you find out as much as possible about a person before you offer them the job. Referencing is a cr...
How to deal with long-term absence through illness 4 Jul 2013 | 04:43 pm
We are increasingly being asked to advise businesses on how to deal with members of staff who have been off work due to a long period of illness or injury. There is a common misconception that nothing...
Probation Periods – How do they work? 26 Jun 2013 | 03:47 pm
We are often asked by our clients questions relating to probation periods. There appears to be much confusion as to how they work, what rights the business has, what the business can do during the pro...
Company Pays the Price for Employee’s Actions 12 Jun 2013 | 03:24 pm
The term ‘vicarious liability’ is often banded about the workplace, but what exactly does it mean for employers? A recent case in the High Court should serve as a valuable warning to employers that th...
Lord Sugar Counter-Sues Ex-Apprentice Winner Stella English for £35k Legal Costs 12 Jun 2013 | 02:44 am
A spokesman for Lord Sugar has confirmed that the Labour Peer has made an application to the Employment Tribunal to recover legal costs accrued in the successful defence of a claim made against his co...
A Guide to Selection Process in Redundancies 24 May 2013 | 11:59 pm
Once you have decided that a redundancy situation applies and you have decided that one or more employees need to be made redundant, one of the first things you need to do is draw up a defined select...
Number of young people on zero hours employment contracts doubles in 5 years 16 May 2013 | 06:14 pm
The Office of National Statistics has recently released figures that show the number of 16-25 year olds employed on zero hours contracts has increased from 35,000 in 2008 to 76,000 in 2012. Exploitati...
The Queen’s Speech 2013: Effect on the workplace 9 May 2013 | 04:35 pm
In her speech delivered to Parliament yesterday, the Queen announced a number of changes relating to the workplace. These include the National Insurance Contributions Bill, the Deregulation Bill, pr...
Labour pledge to ban zero hours contracts and to introduce a ‘living wage’ 30 Apr 2013 | 08:23 pm
Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham fought back against comments that Labour had ‘no concrete policy ideas’. He said that they were “beginning now to set out [...
