If your business is making redundancies, you must be very careful when drawing up the pool of employees from which you make your selection. Failure to consider the pool is likely to make a dismissal unfair. This checklist highlights the key issues that you need to consider. […]
A salary sacrifice arrangement involves an employee giving up part of their entitlement to salary which is subject to income tax and National Insurance contributions (NICs), in exchange for a new or enhanced non-cash benefit, which benefits from a full or partial exemption from tax and/or NICs […]
This checklist outlines how your business should respond to a flexible working request from one of your employees. […]
This checklist summarises the changes to employment legislation that will come into force in October 2010. […]
This checklist highlights the risks that your business and its employees should be aware of when using the internet and e-mail at work, sending work-related e-mails or discussing the workplace on the internet. […]
This article sets out the types of schemed available to employers and their key business benefits. […]
With the approach of the summer holidays employers should be aware of the rules which apply to the employment of children and young people. […]
Legislation exists which allows workers to take statutory holiday while they are off sick. This means that workers on long-term sick leave can take holiday and be paid for it, even where they have exhausted their right to statutory and/or contractual sick pay. […]
There are a number of reasons why you, as an employer, might need to obtain a medical report on an employee. The most common reasons for doing so are to consider whether an employee, who has taken a substantial number of short-term intermittent absences, is suffering from any underlying medical condition or to obtain a [...]
What is the right? An eligible employee whose child is due on or after 3 April 2011 will have the right to apply for up to six months’ additional paternity leave (APL) before their child’s first birthday. […]