Take a look at the changes to employment law coming into effect in April 2020 Changes to written statements From 6th April 2020, the requirement to provide a written statement of terms and conditions extends to workers. This includes casual and zero-hours workers. The legal right to a statement not anymore demands a minimum amount […]
Tag Archives: human resources
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Mar
Mar
A ‘reasonable adjustment’ is a change to remove or reduce the effect of: an employee’s disability so they can do their job a job applicant’s disability when applying for a job The reasonable adjustment could be to: the workplace the ways things are done get someone to help the employee or job applicant Example of […]
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Mar
Mar
Redundancy can create difficult situations and conversations in your organisation. You should think about how to support: employees at risk of redundancy managers who are breaking the news the people leading the consultation employee representatives staff that are staying on It’s often forgotten that those staying on experience stress from seeing colleagues and friends being […]
04
Mar
Mar
You can only give notice and make an employee redundant once you’ve finished consulting everyone. It’s best to tell an employee face-to-face that you’re making them redundant. You should also let them know in writing. You should include in the letter: their notice period leaving date how much redundancy pay they’re due how you calculated the […]
03
Mar
Mar
Selecting employees for redundancy must be done in a fair way and not discriminate against any individuals or groups. It’s a good idea to use selection criteria to help you choose which employees to make redundant. You should base the criteria on: standard of work skills, qualifications or experience attendance record (do not include […]
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Mar
Mar
You can avoid job losses by planning ahead and looking at other options. Before making employees redundant you should see if you can: offer voluntary redundancy or early retirement agree to flexible working temporarily reduce working hours ask employees to stop working for a short time retrain employees to do other jobs in your business let […]
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Feb
Feb
Workers aged under 18 have extra rights to protect them because of their age. Whether they’re an employee or worker can also affect their rights. Working hours and rest breaks for workers aged 16 or 17 By law, workers aged 16 or 17 must not work more than 8 hours a day and 40 hours a week. […]
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Feb
Feb
The working time regulations law covers: the maximum hours an employee can work each week how much rest they should get Certain types of work do not have to follow all of the regulations due to the nature of the job. Jobs with some exceptions to the working time regulations These types of work are […]
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Feb
Feb
By law, your employee must tell you the following information no later than 15 weeks before the date the baby is due: that they’re expecting a child how much paternity leave they plan to take – by law they can take up to 2 weeks the date they want to start their leave Your employee may have […]
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Feb
Feb
Maternity pay starts as soon as your employee starts maternity leave. Pay set out in the employment contract The employee’s contract should state: how much pay they get when on maternity leave how long they get this pay for Pay set out in the employment contract is known as ‘enhanced’ or ‘contractual’ maternity pay, if it’s above […]