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National Living Wage
Confused over National Living Wage? You may have seen adverts on TV talking about the new National Living Wage and still be wondering if it affects you and your business. Here are the key points in summary: 1. This NLW is a new statutory rate for employees and workers...
Happy Birthday, have a days leave!
Congratulations Leave?! Those of you running your own business may already despair about the costs of maternity, paternity, shared parental, sick leave and holiday pay - take a look through this list published by Personnel Today of more "unusual" days off granted in...
Do you trust your employees?
Do you trust your employees? Why would you employ them if you don't trust them? Here's Sam's new article for @championsOSB #championsOSB http://www.championsofsmallbusiness.co.uk/magazine/2016/01/its-a-matter-of-trust/
Exclusivity Clause Penalties in Zero Hours Contracts
Penalties for Exclusivity Clauses in Zero Hours Contacts came into force 11 January 2016. Zero hours contracts can no longer contain exclusivity clauses that forbid employees working for another employer; this was prohibited in May 2015 but there was no penalty for an...
Private Communications at work
New court ruling gives employers free reign to snoop on private communication....NOT QUITE! Yes we're quite sure that in some areas of the media there will be a loud and outraged announcement that the ruling yesterday by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) means...
New Year HR-esolutions
Are you making any New Year HResolutions? Take a look at Sam's new article on getting your HR in order for 2016 http://www.championsofsmallbusiness.co.uk/…/12/hr-new-years/
Top 10 Employment Cases of 2015
Personnel Today lists the top ten employment cases of 2015 - we're delighted for our friend Karen Jackson at didlaw that one of her key cases of the year is within that hallowed list. Karen is a specialist employment lawyer focussing on disability, illness, and...
Zero Hours Contracts New Guidelines
CIPD Labour Market Outlook and Employee Outlook Research shows that approximately 25% of employers use zero hours with approximately 1.3 million workers employed on them. There is good news and bad news but zero hours contracts are certainly not perceived as the...
Commission
Commission being included in holiday pay - the issue rumbles on....! The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) have heard the case of British Gas Trading Ltd v Lock and another this week. This is following a recent European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling that concluded that...