Monitoring Exchanges in WhatsApp

Your average employee and their manager are merrily commenting to each other and their colleagues using apps such as ‘WhatsApp’, because such applications are an easy way to communicate, saving  time compared to picking up the phone to each other, interrupting each...

VIDEO: New Flexible Working Act

Our latest video is available to view on the Refreshing Law YouTube channel – please click here to watch Anna discussing the new Flexible Working Act (which comes into force in July 2024). This video focuses on the processes that need to be followed under the...

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VIDEO: Offers vs Contracts

Our latest video is available to view on the Refreshing Law YouTube channel – please click here to watch Anna discussing a case she read about recently which relates to an issue that she does see cropping up from time to time around what has been offered at...

Pay in lieu of notice and holiday explained

The most common query I ever have to deal with relates to holiday calculation and notice/payment in lieu of notice. I’ll set out an example to illustrate: Today is 15 May 2023. An employee gives their notice of 1 month today, so their employment would end on 15 June...

Are you entitled to withhold SSP?

You’ve probably noticed wording in your sickness policy that makes it clear if employees don’t comply with your procedure, they risk the payment of Statutory Sick Pay (SSP). It is not open to an employer to withhold SSP where the employee provides medical evidence...