Employment Tribunals at the Crossroads?
22 / 10 / 2014
Last year fees were introduced to employment tribunals. The fees have been the subject of two legal challenges and we are awaiting the findings of the court. Employment tribunal panellist and HR advisor John Williams reviews the impact of the introduction of the fees. It is worth a look at the last quarterly statistics published by the Ministry of Justice...
Shared Parental Leave
20 / 10 / 2014
Last week ACAS released a good practice guide on shared parental leave (SPL) for both employers and employees. For any child whose expected birthdate is on or after 5th April 2015, eligible parents will be able to share the care of their child in the first year after birth. The main difference is that the time off does not have...
Financial Education for Employees – Whose Job Is It?
17 / 10 / 2014
HR websites and magazines have been flooded with articles about a survey by Secondsight stating that over half of UK employers do not provide any financial education to their employees, whereas well over half of employees would appreciate some. We can’t really blame employers for this deficit up until now. Most employees are adults and are responsible for looking after...
Mental Health
13 / 10 / 2014
As HR consultants we’re no strangers to situations where employees are stressed and unwell. A significant number of the employees we see who are claiming stress are in a discipline situation. In such cases, we find that the claims are to try and reduce or remove the impact of an exploration of conduct or performance. It is an astonishingly common...
TUPE – In the Know
10 / 10 / 2014
The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 as amended by the "Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2014, known as TUPE, protect the right of employees' rights when the organisation they work for transfers to a new employer. Whilst the principles make quite a lot of sense – why should employees lose their...