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What support should employers provide to home workers?
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is going to withdraw company-paid broadband at the end of March 2020. The CQC employs over 3,000 staff, the majority of whom work from home. It has offered staff a one-off "goodwill payment" of £230. The CQC says that company-paid...
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Employment Law event on how to manage Disciplinary processes
We are holding an Employment Law event in February 2020. Details about the event are as follows: Date: 25 February 2020. Location: At our training facility at Barron McCann Group, Meteor Centre, Mansfield Road, Derby, DE21 4SY What will you learn at the event? How to...
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Employment Law thoughts for 2020 (including Minimum Wage rates)
As we start 2020, here are some HR and Employment Law thoughts to get us all started for the New Year. National Minimum Wage. Let’s start with an important one. Due to the General Election being held in December, the National Minimum Wage rates have been published...
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Employment Law changes for 2020
As 2019 ends and we look forward to the festive period, it is a good time to look at what new developments we can expect in Employment Law. Below is a summary of the changes coming in 2020. These are all due to apply from 6 April 2020 (subject to final legislation...
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Employment Law and HR event
Our latest event – an Employment Law Update and a session on absence management, presented by Rob Tice
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Latest update on race discrimination in the workplace
A recent case called Base Childrenswear v Nadia Otshudi looked at the issue of race discrimination in the workplace. The background of the case: Base Childresnwear sell children’s clothes. Ms Otshudi was employed by them as a photographer, taking pictures of clothes...
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How do employers manage employees who misuse social media?
With the ever-growing use of social media, employees’ behaviour on social media is increasingly causing employers problems. In this post, we look at how employers can tackle such behaviour. Employees’ rights To understand how to tackle behaviour like this, we first...
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Latest news on Flexible Working
A survey conducted by the Trade Union Congress (TUC) of around 2,700 workers found that 30% of flexible working requests were turned down by employers. 58% of workers (and 68% of workers in "working class roles") believed flexible working was "unavailable" in their...
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Latest news on Gender Pay Gap Reporting
Over 10,500 organisations in Britain with 250 or more employees have reported their gender pay gap for 2019, following successful enforcement action against late reporters by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. In total, the ECHR notified 46 private sector and 4...
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What happens if an employee covertly records meetings?
When you hold a meeting with an employee, does it cross your mind that they may be recording it? If not, it should do. If you go back a few years, for an employee to record a meeting would have been fairly obvious. The size of the device needed would have given them...
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Report out on the use of Non-Disclosure Agreements in discrimination cases
There has been some controversy recently about the use of Non-Disclosure Agreements in cases where an employee has raised a complaint of discrimination. So, what is a Non-Disclosure Agreement and how do they work? Essentially, they are a “gagging clause” (often...
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Dismissal may be discriminatory even if employer does not know of disability until appeal hearing
With the most common forms of disability discrimination, an employer cannot discriminate unless they knew, or should have known, about the employee’s disability.However, a recent case has raised an interesting question. If the employer did not know of the...
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