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Review of Employment Tribunal Fees

01.03.2017

The Government review of the Employment Tribunal Fees: Is this bad news for employers? Employment Tribunal fees were introduced in...

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Do you understand the employment rights of self employed workers?

28.02.2017

Self employed worker rights has been a hot topic at our business briefings this month. There has been some debate...

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Can you ask applicants their age?

25.01.2017

At our Birmingham event last week we were asked: Q. Can you ask applicants their age? A. This depends on...

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Recruiting the employees you want

24.01.2017

Employment laws protect job applicants as well as employees from possible discrimination and so a) in order to hire the...

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Dress Code Policy and Discrimination

12.01.2017

Imposing a dress code policy is perfectly legal when it factors in an employees rights, but in some cases employers...

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Are you following the correct dismissal process?

05.01.2017

This week a tribunal ruled a senior member of staff had been unfairly dismissed because his employer had failed to...

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Do you effectively manage sickness absence?

23.12.2016

How best to manage sickness absence? We held three business briefings in December at Cheltenham, Cambridge and Swansea discussing the...

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Why is an absence policy important and what does it need to include?

23.12.2016

A Sunday Times article has uncovered retail giant Amazon has strict absence policies in place. Four-six sick days and their...

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Autumn Statement – Employee-related measures

13.12.2016

In addition to announcing increases in the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates in his autumn statement, the...

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