You must comply with legal requirements on employees’ working hours. Giving employees fair holidays and pay can also help to improve performance, reduce accidents and cut…
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Category: Employment Law
Disciplining employees for activities outside of work
Membership of extreme political parties, criminal activity, football hooliganism, taking illegal substances: if your workers’ leisure activities create problems with other colleagues or customers or could…
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Age discrimination FAQs
1. What are the requirements on age discrimination? Legislation came into force in 2012 making it unlawful to treat employees and job applicants differently on grounds…
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Grievance procedures
Most people will encounter various problems at work at some point during the course of their employment. The types of issues can range from bullying and…
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Essential guide to rights for working parents and carers
Making sure you respect employees’ rights is essential to help you minimise disputes and the risk of legal claims. You must know where you stand if…
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Employee pensions
Under auto-enrolment rules, most employers are legally obliged to provide an employee pension scheme and to make contributions to it. Although this is a cost to…
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Dismissals and Redundancies
Dismissing employees or making them redundant can be difficult at the best of times. But it gets worse if you are taken to an employment tribunal to face…
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Making Redundancies
If you are considering redundancies, take advice early. You may be able to avoid making redundancies altogether. What does redundancy mean? You make employees redundant if…
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The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey 2023 (and tips for employers)
Nearly 1500 disabled employees and 400 managers recently responded to The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey 2023. The survey assessed the extent to which the needs…
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