The Court of Appeal has held that an employer had reasonable and proper cause to suspend an employee and therefore it didn’t commit a repudiatory breach of contract. Why is this a helpful decision
for employers?
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If you may require your staff to work extra hours, you should include overtime provisions in your employment contracts, and these may also need to cover time off in lieu. What specific factors do you
need to think about?
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Paternity leave is statutory time off work taken by an employee when their partner is having a baby or adopting a child. They might also be eligible for statutory paternity pay. What key things do
you need to know about paternity leave and pay?
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Many small businesses get by just fine without detailed policies and procedures so why should you go to the trouble of creating a staff handbook in your workplace? What could be the benefits of such
a handbook?
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An employee under notice of redundancy may want to leave their employment early, i.e. before their notice expires. If they choose to do so, are they still entitled to receive a statutory redundancy
payment?
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The government is consulting on new measures to prevent the misuse of confidentiality clauses in cases of workplace harassment or discrimination. What’s proposed?
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The dismissal of an employee could be unfair, wrongful, either or neither, but it’s important not to get the two confused as they’re entirely different. When might there be a wrongful dismissal?
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Off-payroll working rules from April 2020..Consultation. Following the announcement in the autumn Budget 2018 that the public sector reforms to the off-payroll working rules will be extended to the
private sector from 6 April 2020, the government has now issued a consultation seeking views on how the rules will operate in practice. They will provide...
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Workers’ rights to be protected in UK law..New measures. The government has announced two new measures to protect and enhance workers’ rights following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. Firstly, it
has committed not to reduce the standards of workers’ rights from EU laws which are retained in UK law and so will ensure that any new legislation...
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