by Anna Denton | Oct 15, 2015 | Articles, redundancies
An employee is entitled to Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) as long as she has been employed for 26 weeks by the end of the Qualifying Week which is the 15th week before the expected week of childbirth (EWC). She must also have ceased work. SMP is available to ‘a woman...
by Anna Denton | Oct 6, 2015 | Articles, Data Protection
This Saturday is World Mental Health day and no doubt lots of charities and mental health organisations will be encouraging employers to do more to look after the mental wellbeing of their employees. It made me sad, therefore, to see a Facebook clip yesterday of...
by Anna Denton | Oct 1, 2015 | Articles, redundancies
This was the question that arose in the case of Coles -v- Ministry of Defence. Over 500 MOD employees were put ‘at risk’ of redundancy and were in a redeployment pool when Mr Coles was told his assignment would come to an end. Although the MOD complied with the...
by Anna Denton | Sep 17, 2015 | Articles
You may remember that I explained back in June that there was an issue over peripatetic workers and travelling time. In particular, in the European case of Federacion De Servicios Privados -v- Tyco Integrated Security which concerned Spanish workers we now have a...
by Anna Denton | Sep 14, 2015 | Articles, Investigations
It is undoubtedly the case that HR professionals are an organisation’s ‘go-to’ people when there is a disciplinary situation. However, recent case law shows us why it is very important that you maintain proper boundaries when providing advice and support to your...
by Anna Denton | Sep 10, 2015 | Articles
The Fit For Work service has now been rolled out nationally and guidance has been updated for employers to reflect that from 8th September 2015 employers can accept return to work plans issued through the Fit For Work service as evidence of sickness absence in exactly...