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Great Employment Law Update from our friends at DC Employment as ever - this time with a useful round up of the employment law promises being made by each of the three major political parties. http://www.dcemploymentsolicitors.co.uk/news/the-employment-law-update/

Target set but are your employees completing the actions agreed in their professional development plans and really benefiting from doing so.....or has the process become a tedious paperwork exercise that you wish you'd never started?! Are review meetings filled with...

Election Time Considerations... Do your employees hold political views that you or your company does not wish to be associated with, or that you or other employees find offensive? Exercise caution if you were considering taking any action on that account as you may...

Take care when making deductions from wages! All savvy employers know they need to ensure their contract of employment allows for making deductions from wages for things like overpayments made in error or to have employees repay training fees. If the contract or a...

Do you run a business in childcare or early years provision? Did you know that if any of your staff live with someone who has a conviction or caution for a "relevant crime" - predominantly crimes against children and violent crimes - then they may be disqualified by...

Three paid days a year off work to "volunteer" - that's what Dave Cameron is pledging if he is elected. Companies employing more than 250 staff will be required to allow staff 3 days a year off to do volunteer work. We think this is a wonderful sentiment and as people...

Are you FIT FOR WORK?! Well by the autumn you'll be able to have a free occupational heath assessment to decide this for you! The Government funded Fit For Work (FFW) initiative aims to provide free information support and guidance to employers and employees as well...

Zero hours employment contracts will only be allowed for 12 weeks! Well that's the plan if labour gain power at the election. Ed Miliband is promising that employees on zero hours contracts will have them converted to regular contracted hours contracts after 12 weeks...

Don't be an April Fool!! Setting your colleagues on fire, touching a colleague's testicles, putting your colleague in a wheelie bin, landing your radio controlled helicopter on your colleague's turban, doing a "moonie" in work - when practical jokes go bad! So today...