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Employee relations
All companies, whatever size, face issues around employing staff at some point. Such issues can be related to establishing the initial employment relationship or may arise at any time during their employment. Handling these issues incorrectly can result in demotivating staff or – even worse – l
Support | 9 Feb 2012
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Fire Safety (Employees' Capabilities) (England) Regulations 2010
The Fire Safety Regulation (Employees’ Capabilities) (England) 2010 came into force on 6 April 2010 and apply to England only. They provide that employers must take into account their employees’ capabilities with regards to fire safety when entrusting tasks to them. The Regulations stipulat
Regulation | 6 Apr 2010
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Former employment lawyer new employee relations minister
Norman Lamb, a former employer lawyer, has been appointed as Minister for Employment Relations, Consumer and Postal Affairs. He replaces Edward Davey, who has been promoted to Energy and Climate Change Secretary, following the departure of Chris Huhne. Business Secretary, Vince Cable, said: “I a
News | 6 Feb 2012
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Report reveals increase in employees seeking counselling
A larger percentage of the workforce are accessing Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP) than they were four years ago. According to Right Management’s annual Clinical Director report, over the last year, 30,000 employees accessed Right Management’s EAP service for help, an increase from 4.36% t
News | 3 Feb 2012
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Employer’s liability for employee’s violence
The Court of Appeal has recently considered two conjoined cases to determine the circumstances when an employer is liable for an act of violence committed by one employee towards another. Employment Principal Lorna Townsend reports. In order for an employer to be vicariously liable for a violent a
Case | 2 Feb 2012
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Legal issues of employee right to request shares
Deputy Leader Nick Clegg's plans to introduce a so-called 'John Lewis economy' – giving employees a 'right to request' shares in the company that they work for – raises a number of legal issues, said an employment expert. Catherine Wilson, Employment Partner at law firm, Thomas Eggar, said:
News | 18 Jan 2012
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Flexible benefits are rising, say third of employees
A third of employees (32%) believe that the flexible benefits offered by their employers, on top of their basic salary, is increasing. The survey by the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP), which looked into flexible benefits, also found just how important flexible benefits are to a
News | 16 Jan 2012
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Employees lose faith that performance pays
The year 2011 left many employees across all sectors dissatisfied with the size of pay rise and bonus they received, with the majority having seen their pay either frozen (48%) or cut (5%), and just 18% having received a cash bonus. That’s according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Dev
News | 3 Jan 2012
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Ex-Stringfellows worker wins right to argue she was employee
Nadine Quashie, a former dancer with Stringfellows Restaurants Limited, has been granted permission to appeal an Employment Tribinal decision that she was not an ‘employee’. A full hearing will now take place in March next year. The outcome will be of interest to the thousands of club dancers a
Case | 20 Nov 2011
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Unrealistic to risk assess every detail of employees’ work
In a recent case, the Scottish Courts rejected a claim for personal injury saying that it was “clearly not realistic to expect an employer to risk assess every single detail of an employee’s work.” In the case of Hodgkinson v Renfrewshire Council, Ms Hodgkinson made a claim for personal i
Case | 16 Nov 2011
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Council employees’ details were published online
Dumfries and Galloway Council breached the Data Protection Act by accidentally publishing a spreadsheet containing the names, salaries and dates of birth of nearly 900 current and former employees on their website, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has revealed. The personal informa
Case | 20 Oct 2011
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Key judgment on transferral of employees’ rights awaited
The High Court in London has this week been considering whether employees of an insolvent company automatically transfer to the purchaser of their employer's business by an administrator. The Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) had decided in February 2011, in the case of OTG v Barke, that empl
Case | 19 Oct 2011
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Employee unfairly dismissed over second job whilst on sick
The EAT recently found that an employee sacked for working a second job whilst on sick leave was unfairly dismissed. Ms Perry worked as a midwife part-time for two different employers. Her job for Imperial College Healthcare involved cycling to patients' homes and often climbing stairs in high-rise
Case | 13 Oct 2011
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Employers urged to support newly disabled employees
A new report, published by RNIB with a foreword by ACAS Chief Executive, John Taylor, has found that keeping a newly disabled person in employment has a cost benefit of two-and-a-half times an employer's investment. The report sets out: the case for employee retention; advice on how to
News | 12 Oct 2011
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Flexible working would reduce sickies, say employees
A new survey has found that 43% of UK employees admit to having called in sick to work when they were not actually sick. The Kronos Absence Survey, commissioned by The Workforce Institute at Kronos Incorporated and conducted by Harris Interactive, also found that the number of people pulling si
News | 29 Sep 2011
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Recession prompts focus on employee wellbeing
Today’s employees are facing an increasingly challenging working environment, according to the annual Aviva Health of the Workplace report, which canvasses the views of employers and their staff on issues relating to workplace wellbeing. Two in five (41%) employees say they have too much
News | 26 Sep 2011
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Most employees would report an overpayment
The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP) has found in a recent survey that most employees claim to be very honest when it comes to financial matters. When asked, ‘If you were sure nobody was looking would you have a sneaky peak at a colleague’s payslip?’, 70% of people an
News | 5 Sep 2011
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Employees distracted by scantily clad colleagues
Over a quarter (28%) of British workers have admitted to being distracted by scantily clad colleagues at work, according to new research from uSwitchforbusiness.com. Over half of Brits (52%) say that women in their workplace dress more inappropriately in the summer months, while just three in ten (
News | 31 Aug 2011
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Employee ordered to pay £100,000 costs
Tim Watts, the chairman of recruitment firm PerTemps is to be paid £100,000 by a former employee who accused him of harassment and discrimination. The former employee claimed that he was subjected to “degrading, humiliating and offensive” sexual comments. But The Mirror reports that the trib
News | 12 Aug 2011
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Employee entitled to pay in lieu of holiday
The issue of holiday entitlement during sickness absence has moved a step forward following a recent decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT). In the case of NHS Leeds v. Larner, the employee was off sick for a period of over a full holiday year (14 months) before being dismissed on g
Case | 12 Aug 2011
