According to a poll by recruitment website Monster, almost 3 in 4 workers (69%) would not inform bosses if they felt a colleague was not performing. 58% of respondents to the survey would instead to try to help their friend improve their work. A further 11% replied that if their boss did notice it was not their concern. The remaining 31% of employees however reported that they would inform their...
Richard Bruton, Enterprise Minister for Ireland, has launched a consultation regarding the merger of the five Irish employment rights bodies: the Labour Court (the Irish equivalent of Employment Tribunals), the Labour Relations Commission, the National Employment Rights Authority (NERA), The Employment Appeals Tribunal and the Equality Authority. Bruton said that the country`s “employment...
Leading advisory firm, Ernst & Young are advising employers that the best way to identify fraud within their business is to send employees on extended holidays. Apparently, whilst the employees are away their colleagues are more likely to discover any irregularity. They believe that by forcing employees to take a break of at least two weeks fraud in Britain could be reduced by millions of pou...
Some drafting errors in the original Agency Workers Regulations 2010 have now been corrected....
Until recently, when a male employee would announce he and his partner were going to be parents, the biggest impact on a small business might have been the cost of a round of drinks bought to whet the baby`s head! That`s all changed following the recent introduction of Additional Paternity Leave. Now the impact on small businesses is potentially much greater....
The news pictures of the London Riots make depressing viewing. It`s heartbreaking to hear stories of businesses that have taken years to build up being destroyed in minutes. This is especially so, given that these businesses are already fighting for survival on an economic front....
An employer who successfully defended an Employment Tribunal Claim has been awarded a record £100,000 in costs against the Claimant in the case. The female employee had brought a claim of sexual discrimination and harassment, alleging that her boss had subjected her to offensive and degrading comments including discussing breast sizes and calling her a sexy nurse. The Tribunal found her c...
It has been held in NHS Leed v Larner (2011) that a worker, who had been off sick for a full leave year, was still entitled to payment in lieu of untaken annual leave on termination of employment, despite not having submitted a request for holiday when she was off sick....
In 2009 we reported the Court of Appeal decision that a group of car valets, employed under terms and conditions purporting to make them self-employed were, in fact, employees. This decision has now been upheld by the Supreme Court in Autoclenz Ltd v Belcher (2011)....
If you provide a childcare voucher scheme for your employees the HMRC has today published updated gudiance for both employers and employees. The employers gudiance can be found at http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/thelibrary/employer-qa.pdf. Employee gudiance is avaliable at http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/thelibrary/employee-qa.pdf....
As we are now over half way through 2011, we take a look back at some of our favourite cases so far this year. It`s perhaps a sign of the times that these involve redundancies, company administrations, and the use of social media as well as tricky questions of a philosophical nature.....
The former Governor of the Tower of London has brought a claim in the London Central Employment Tribunal alleging he was sacked for trying to take on a culture of bullying, cannabis growing and financial impropriety amongst the Beefeaters....
According to a survey of HR professionals by recruitment company Adecco, many employers do not understand the changes which the Agency Workers Regulations will implement in two months time (on 1 October 2011). The regulations will award agency workers many of the same employment rights as permanent employees once they have been engaged for 12 weeks. Other rights, such as access to amenities and...
Money more important than job satisfaction when looking for new job say respondents to CIPD survey....
The EAT has held in Wincanton v Atkinson (2011), that it was not unfair to dismiss two lorry drivers who had mistakenly let their HGV licences expire and were therefore driving uninsured. It rejected the tribunal`s view that the employer`s decision was unreasonable as no adverse consequences had come to pass, and the risks posed by the drivers` mistakes remained hypothetical....
A manager who was sacked from her job at a Greggs bakery store in Glasgow has won her unfair dismissal claim against the shop, and been awarded £23,000 in compensation. The Claimant, Suzanne Hamilton, had worked as a manager for Greggs for 26 years. She had a clean disciplinary record until she was forced to either resign or be demoted following an incident involving a packet of sc...
Although the Default Retirement Age was abolished in April this year, employers who issued retirement notices before this, should take note of the EAT decision in Compass Group v Ayodele (2011)....
This time next year the greatest sporting event in the world will have begun. So what should employers be thinking about in preparation? Acas have published guidance to assist employers on making sure they get the best from their staff and to reduce the risk of unauthorised absence during the event. The guidance covers the following:...
The CBI has called on the Government to rethink its approach to employment law in a report published today entitled "Thinking Positive: the 21st century employment relationship"....
Former employees of Woburn Abbey Country House are bringing unfair dismissal claims against Bedford Estates who own the property....