Breaking News! Holiday Pay and Overtime

Landmark news regarding holiday pay and overtime. Holiday pay should include overtime. The Employment Appeals Tribunal today ruled that holiday pay calculations must include regular non-guaranteed overtime. If overtime is such that an employee can consider payment for...

Ebola

Is an Ebola outbreak a risk that you need to consider in your business? We’re going to go out on a limb here and say that for most, if not all, of our clients the answer is most likely no! However…if you have any concerns then the article in Personnel...
Equal Pay for Equal Work

Equal Pay for Equal Work

Equal Pay for equal work! You may have seen on the news this weekend that Asda are facing mass legal action by women who work in their stores. Over 1000 women so far have lodged claims with apparently a further potential 19,000 enquiries being dealt with by the legal...

Working with Vets

We love working with vets and we had a great time working with a fabulous vets practice recently and as any who knows us we are mad about animals! So we are putting it out there that we would love to work with more vet practices. Does this sound like you? You run a...

Apprentices

Do you employ apprentices? There has in recent years been some confusion about the employment status of an apprentice in a business, as it seems that legislative changes made in 2012 have not necessarily been communicated very well to employers….unless you are...

Employee Benefits…human egg freezing?

What employee benefits are you offering – pension, health care, cycle to work scheme…. human egg freezing?! It was reported in the Guardian yesterday that Apple and Facebook are offering this “perk” to US based employees from January 2015....