Occasionally postponements are used to unsettle the other party. The main drawback of postponements is the lost time, the need to rearrange appointments and the waste of tribunal time and accommodation if a new case can not be slotted into the gap. Three Strikes and Out The number of times an employer or claimant can […]
HR Management Dimensions blogIf you have not reviewed the arrangements you have in place for data protection, you may find the following article of interest. Although focused on schools, most of the points apply to any organisation. Read the article Protecting Data and Confidentiality. (sorry the link needs to be revised) Please note that the […]
Posted on 25/02/2016 by HR Professional The Employment Appeal Decision in British Gas Trading v Lock means that results based commission must be paid during holiday periods. You can read more about the implications of the court decision in this link to an earlier article. {Editor’s note – new link to be added]. Employers now […]
News broke this week that France will allow companies to re-negotiate a longer working week and overtime rates of pay thus starting to erode the 35 hour week for ‘blue collar’ staff. That report made me smile as I recalled: Advising a French service company on adopting the 35 hour week and reducing employment […]
In our first article about the junior doctors’ pay and hours dispute, we queried whether the negotiators for the doctors will avoid the mistakes of previous years. Those agreements left some junior doctors in specialities, such as general medicine, feeling the deal was unfair as colleagues, in other specialities, were not liable to be called […]
Posted on 13/01/2016 by HR Professional [Link updated 06/09/2019] Zero hours are defined broadly as being a contract or arrangement under which an employer may offer or provide work for an individual but there is no certainty that such work will be made available. Such contracts are a useful means of covering seasonal […]
Our earlier article ‘Living Wage has Hidden Costs for Employees and Employers’ has been updated to reflect the Chancellor’s intention to postpone the rise in minimum pension contributions from both employer and employees. The postponement will be for 6 months. The increases will take place in April 2018 and 2019 instead of October 2017 and […]
This month, the Living Wage Foundation announced that over 2,000 employers have signed up to pay the Living Wage. That sounds good but does that bode well for employees and employers – have the hidden costs been glossed over? Individuals should be paid a fair wage for their skills/effort provided they maintain such skillls, are […]
This is the second article in our series on the puzzle of the UK’s low productivity [1]. As we touched upon in the first article, many factors affect productivity some of which are beyond the control of senior managers e.g. global trading and economic changes. Even now, new pressures are arising which may affect […]