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ACAS Issues Collective Redundancy Guidance
On 18 December 2012, the Employment Relations Minister Jo Swinson announced that the 90-day minimum consultation period for large scale redundancies (over 100 employees) was to be cut to 45 days. She referred to the published Government Consultation Reponses document, which supported the Calls for Evidence findings. The 45 days will be a minimum period [...]
Employment Law Changes 2013/14
April 2013 Legal aid is withdrawn for many employment claims by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012. The current 90-day minimum consultation period for large scale redundancies (over 100 employees) is reduced to 45 days – see Payroll Help 02 January 2013 Summer 2013 Employment Tribunal penalties introduced at the same [...]
Code of Practice for Flexible Working
As we have mentioned previously, The Children and Families Bill was introduced into the House of Commons on 04 February 2013. It is a legislative consolidation of a number of Government initiatives, all designed to improve services for vulnerable children, plus support families balancing their home / work lives. The particular interest to the payroll [...]
The Value of Informal Warnings
The informal warning is a most valuable management tool and also the most efficient way to give a warning to an employee. Most matters requiring discipline are resolved in this way and it has the advantage of not causing enmity between the giver and the recipient of the warning. To understand this requires us to [...]
Flexible Parental Leave and Working
In May 2011, the Government published a consultation entitled ‘Consultation on Modern Workplaces’, which involved proposals in four areas: Flexible Parental Leave Flexible Working Working Time Regulations, and Equal Pay In June 2012, the Government published its response to topic 4 on Equal Pay and we have been eagerly waiting for responses to the other [...]
Dealing with Incompetence
Incompetence in employees really should not be tolerated. An employee who is not performing is letting down the organisation by failing to deliver to a standard required for commercial success. Other employees will resent working with people who are not pulling their weight, and as a result morale will fall. And the employee concerned is [...]
Employment Law Review – Annual Update March 2012
BIS have published their updated Annual Review document detailing the employment law reforms that are already going through Parliament as a result of its Resolving Workplace Disputes consultation: Effective 06 April 2012 (and subject to Parliamentary approval of secondary legislation): Increasing the unfair dismissal qualifying period from 1 to 2 years Increasing the maximum limit [...]
Questions From Our Forum 10/12/10
The following questions have been posted over the past week. Can you contribute to any of the discussions?… Holiday pay – Self employed I am from Romania and because of this I have the right to work in UK just being self employed. According to this statute I have very few right excluding holyday paid. [...]
