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Employment and Human Resources Advice for Schools, Academies and Colleges
...contracts and terms of employment Dealing with complex grievances and disciplinaries Managing allegations against staff Absence management Exit agreements and compliance with the academies financi...
National Insurance Contributions changes to termination payments postponed until April 2019
National Insurance Contributions changes to termination payments postponed until April 2019 The way that termination payments are taxed is due to change in April 2018 but planned changes to National I...
Please remember that your pay could go down as well as up ...
Please remember that your pay could go down as well as up ... In these uncertain economic times redundancies and pay freezes are constantly in the news. Increasingly, in our experience, managers are e...
Holiday Pay Calculations Must Take Commission into Account
Holiday Pay Calculations Must Take Commission into Account The ECJ has ruled that holiday pay should include an amount to reflect the commission the worker would have earned had they not been on holid...
Dr Carneiro Blows the Final Whistle on Chelsea
Dr Carneiro Blows the Final Whistle on Chelsea Update: Chelsea team doctor, Dr Carneiro, is believed to have resigned following her public dressing down by Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho six weeks ago. ...
Removing Christian director who spoke out against homosexuality and same-sex adoption was lawful
Removing Christian director who spoke out against homosexuality and same-sex adoption was lawful An NHS Trust did not directly discriminate against a non-executive director on religious grounds when i...
Unauthorised absences – is there a right to receive pay?
Unauthorised absences – is there a right to receive pay? At the time of writing this article, England is gripped by the unchecked rioting taking place over much of London, as well as Birmingham and Ma...
Constructive dismissal: affirmation does not affect employee’s right to rely on employer’s previous conduct
Constructive dismissal: affirmation does not affect employee’s right to rely on employer’s previous conduct An employee who “soldiers on”, even though his employer’s actions cumulatively amount to a b...
Handling the Fallout from Acts of God - BUSINESS MAGAZINE
Handling the Fallout from Acts of God - BUSINESS MAGAZINE Swine flu, snowstorms, volcanic ash clouds … over the last year nature has seemed determined to disrupt UK business. But what can employers d...
Six Year Time Limit for Equal pay Claims
Six Year Time Limit for Equal pay Claims Employees are likely to have six years to bring equal pay claims following a recent Court of Appeal decision. Employees have always been able to bring equal p...
Transferee May be Bound by Post-transfer Changes to Collective Agreements
...contracts provided that their terms and conditions would be in accordance with collective agreements negotiated from time to time with the National Joint Council for Local Government (NJC). Their emp...
Whistleblowing Public Interest Test Satisfied by Employee Raising Contractual Matter Affecting Group of Employees
Whistleblowing Public Interest Test Satisfied by Employee Raising Contractual Matter Affecting Group of Employees The public interest requirement under the whistleblowing legislation may be satisfied ...
Small Business Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 Receives Royal Assent
...contracts. Provisions on public sector exit payments. None of the provisions are currently in force.
Refusal to pay resigning employee fair market value for shares not unfair
Refusal to pay resigning employee fair market value for shares not unfair An employer had not treated an employee unfairly when it refused to pay her the fair market value for her shares after she res...
Changing terms of unionised workforces
...contracts if they could not reach agreement. Unlawful inducement claims 57 employees brought employment tribunal claims, arguing that each letter was an unlawful inducement as its sole or ma...
Creative use of workers during difficult times - Atypical workers - HR MAGAZINE
...contracts/casual workers Zero hours contractscan be useful for managing peaks and troughs in business. The employer offers no guaranteed minimum number of working hours, the individual does no...
Tribunals: Unless Orders must be unambiguous to strike out whole case
Tribunals: Unless Orders must be unambiguous to strike out whole case A tribunal may only strike out a whole case if a claimant has not complied with an Unless Order if the Order unambiguously states ...
Harpur Trust v Brazel – are you calculating holiday pay correctly?
...contracts (as any untaken holiday can be paid to them in lieu when the contract ends). If you have any part-year workers who are permanently employed and their pay varies according to the work they d...
Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020: What a Relief…!
...contracts can use that insolvency as grounds to terminate their contract. This is a common clause in commercial contracts which suppliers rely on to limit their exposure to the counterparty’s insolven...
Non-compete clauses could be banned under Government proposals for reform
...contracts. It has opened a consultation seeking views on proposals, including requiring employers to pay employees for the duration of the restriction, introducing a statutory limit on the length of t...