Furlough and Redundancy
NOTE The Government Job Retention Scheme is designed to reduce the need for redundancy, therefore Tribunals are likely to take a dim view on any employer that leaps to [...]
23 04, 2020
14 04, 2020
Holiday Time, Furlough and Leave Balances
Furlough has now become embedded in the UK business dictionary as part of our normal vocabulary. Since the Government announcement that furlough would be introduced the rules around it have [...]
20 03, 2020
Clarifying short time working and layoff
Short time working is when an employee does some work on their normal day but for less hours or receives less than half their normal weekly wage. For example, the [...]
9 12, 2019
Key points from the proposed Good Work Plan – April 2020
The Good Work Plan is one of those pieces of legislation that has been lost in the noise of elections and the ongoing Brexit debate, but it does have a [...]
9 12, 2019
Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay comes in to effect April 2020
This proposed change in the law can be seen as a common sense change by most employers. Whilst not confirmed, it is likely that by April 2020 it will be [...]
1 09, 2018
Heads Up – Employment Law Changes in 2019
Here is the timetable for proposed employment law changes that due to come in to force in 2019, some of these you wont be aware of but may need to [...]
10 05, 2018
How to Undertake an Informal 1-2-1
Holding informal 1-2-1's with your team rock when it comes to good management practice in the workplace. An informal 1-2-1 is swiftly replacing the concept of formal performance reviews, or [...]
21 01, 2018
Poor management driving higher levels of leavers
According to a recent Investors in People study, 47% of workers in teh UK will be looking for a new role in 2018, with 49% of the 1000 surveyed citing poor management [...]