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Advocate General proposes 18-month limit on holiday accrual while on sick leave
Friday, July 15th, 2011Indefinite accrual of holiday leave and pay while on sick leave is incompatible with the objective of recuperation, according to the Advocate General. According to case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the right to annual leave is retained even in cases of long-term illness. The length of time for [...]
Handling requests for “time to train”
Friday, February 25th, 2011The right of employees to make a formal request to their employer for time off to undertake study and training was introduced in April 2010 in organisations with 250 or more employees. The intention was to extend the right to all organisations from April 2011. However, following a consultation exercise in summer 2010, the Government [...]
Getting the Most out of New Employees
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011The new employee arrives, we are relieved, there is so much work piling up, so now our cares have vanished! But have they? It is so easy to assume that the new employee will walk into the workplace, settle down, and be working at 100% performance within five minutes. But in reality this is most [...]
Are employers obliged to allow time off for Reservists to attend Annual Camp and to pay for that time off?
Friday, December 17th, 2010Reservists are part-time members of the Armed Forces, or ex-members of the Regular Forces with a reserve liability, who are able to boost the capability of Regular Units during military operations. There are around 40,000 Volunteer Reservists in the UK and they form some 25% of the UK’s total defence capacity. Employers should be aware [...]
Building and managing stressful teams
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010Yes you read that right, but unfortunately we didn’t and that course made it into our brochure, you can check page 55 the Learn Centre Prospectus if you don’t believe me. That should of course read Building and managing successful teams but clearly someone was having a bad day and there was a little Freudian [...]
Questions from our Forum 15/11/2010
Friday, November 12th, 2010Each week we receive a number of payroll questions on our forum, and here are this week’s batch. Can you help with any answers? Forum Posts Contacting HMRC As an employer at some point you will need to contact HMRC to discuss PAYE. These days most contact is telephone driven and the first thing you [...]
HR Problems Page
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010Here we take our weekly look at answering some of the tricky HR questions we’ve been emailed. If you have a tricky HR question you needs answering email it to help@payroll-help.com and we’ll post the best here with an answer each week. Redundancy – bumping As part of a cost saving exercise we are doing away [...]
Getting the most out of exit interviews
Thursday, September 9th, 2010Any manager who wishes to understand his or her organisation better should seriously consider introducing a structured system of exit interviews to pick the brains of employees who, for whatever reason, are leaving. They may be fed up with you, may be leaving only because something more attractive beckons, or may just be taking retirement. [...]
How should employers manage entitlement to “Keeping in Touch” days?
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010During the maternity, adoption and paternity pay period, no SMP, SAP or SPP may be paid for any week during which the employee performs any work for the employer. Although any such work does not bring the pay period to an end, the return to work, even if it is just for a day or [...]
Employment Rights – Applications to undertake study and training
Thursday, August 19th, 2010Since 6 April 2010, employers with 250 or more employees have been required to consider applications made by employees to undertake courses of study or training that will improve their effectiveness in the employer’s business, or improve the performance of the employer’s business. The requirements will be extended to all employers from April 2011. The [...]
Changes to redundancy and notice periods – Jersey Employment Law
Thursday, August 19th, 2010The following changes to Jersey employment law took effect from 6 August 2010, under provisions in the Employment (Amendment No. 5) (Jersey) Law 2010. They relate in particular to the new right to redundancy pay. An employer must make a redundancy payment to an employee who is dismissed by reason of redundancy. The employee must [...]
Press Release: The Learn Centre new address
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010MOVING TO SERVE YOU EVEN BETTER! From August 2010 we have a new base in larger premises in West Sussex. The move from Banbury will allow us to serve our thousands of customers even better as we expand to meet the rising demand for training around the country. LEARN offers more… LEARN already runs more [...]
Changes to apprentice rules from October 2010
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010The changes proposed in the Low Pay Commission’s eleventh National Minimum Wage Report were accepted by the Coalition government in June and included a new minimum rate for apprentices. The Regulations introducing the arrangements for apprentices were made on 22 July and come into force from 1 October 2010. Current rules Currently, apprentices are either [...]
Statutory Sick Pay – Fake Fit Notes for sale on Internet site
Monday, June 21st, 2010A recent IPP newsletter highlighted a recent BBC news item about a website, www.doctorsnotestore.com, that sells fake “fit notes” from £25 each, with a money-back guarantee if they fail you get the purchaser our of work or school. Selling sick notes is apparently not illegal, only using them fraudulently to obtain payment of SSP. Employers [...]
