Sports Direct bosses face criminal charges
Under Section 193 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 employers are obliged to notify the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills on a form HR1 where they are proposing to dismiss as redundant 20 or more employees at one...We’re making an employee redundant – do we still have to pay her maternity pay?
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...In a redundancy situation can we replace agency workers with ‘at risk’ permanent employees?
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...Things you can do to make redundancies run more smoothly
In this article I am going to touch on more of the human side of making redundancies, which is never easy, having heard over the years many of the complaints that employees make about their employers and the way they handle things. Firstly, when making a redundancy...More on enhanced redundancy payments – when things become contractual – take care of the wording you use
A while ago I wrote about Peacocks stores becoming liable to pay enhanced redundancy payments and the risks of employees becoming entitled to payments as a matter of custom and practice: http://www.refreshinglawltd.co.uk/?p=282. In Shumba v Park Cakes Limited 2013 the...
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