A Nursery Manager has failed in her attempt to persuade the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) that she had been subjected to unlawful discrimination because of her religion when she was dismissed from her post at a nursery in Islington (Grace… read more →
The Department for Work and Pensions has announced the proposed new statutory rates for tax year 2014/15. The revised rates are as follows: SMP, SPP and SAP will increase from £136.78 to £138.18 Maternity Allowance will increase from £136.78 to £138.18. SSP… read more →
Meaning 1(a) TUPE stands for the “Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006” as amended by the “Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2014”. The purpose of the Regulations is to protect employment rights… read more →
1. Setting out your Aims 1(a) This is important to set out your aims and policy. Communicate this to your staff and it can be part of your new employee induction procedure. Usually your aims will be to minimize absence… read more →
It is estimated that smoking breaks that are extra breaks for staff during the working day or shift cost the country £8.4 billion in lost productivity. Take for example a member for your staff taking 6 smoke breaks per day… read more →
The independent Low Pay Commission (LPC) has recommended an increase of 3 per cent in the national minimum wage. If the government decides to accept the recommendation the NMW will rise to £6.50 in October 2014. This will be the… read more →
1. Criminal records checks; new filtering system in force – effective 29th May 2013 Certain old and minor cautions and convictions (protected convictions and cautions) will be filtered out and no longer disclosed when criminal records checks are made for… read more →
New Statutory Payment rates announced for April 2014 The Department for Work and Pensions has announced the proposed new rates for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP) and Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP) for tax… read more →