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Due the cost of living and inflation employees are more concerned about their earnings and will often question if they are on a fair wage. Discussions will take place between colleagues, and this may cause alarm to employers as they may be concerned about resulting grievances.
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What is harassment? Generally, it is any unwanted conduct that violates someone’s dignity, creates intimidation, hostility, fear, humiliation, or is degrading. These can arise from conduct or behaviour, pranks, spoken words, facial expressions, or gestures.
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The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision in the case of McQueen v The General Optical Council gives further guidance on whether an employer can take disciplinary action and /or dismiss an employee who displays aggressive behaviour to other staff members but suffers from mental health issues.
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The death of a child is a sad and devastating loss for any family. The employer should handle the situation with care and compassion. Employees' mental health is important, and employers should provide support if needed.
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The minimum salary thresholds will increase on the 12 April 2023 for employees recruited on skilled worker visas. This will increase the cost of recruiting skilled migrant workers and employer will have to adjust salary and working hour to ensure compliance.
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The government announced that 8th May 2023 will be designated as a bank holiday to mark King Charles Coronation. But do employees have the right to take this additional bank holiday as paid leave?
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This April sees Stress Awareness Month take place, and in light of this we would like to give you some tips when it comes to managing stress in the workplace.
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Stress Awareness Month falls on April every year since 1992. This month is to raise awareness of the causes and cures for our modern-day stress epidemic.
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The Government have proposed legislation to ensure casual workers have more predictable working hours.
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Failure to pay an employee the correct rate of pay in line with changes to take affect in April 2023 could give to unlawful deductions claim, constructive dismissal, breach of contract claim and investigation by HMRC .
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Ramadan represents a very important religious time of the year for Muslims. During this month, Muslims abstain from eating, drinking, and smoking between sunrise and sunset.
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An East Sussex construction firm and one of its directors have been charged and fined for failing to provide adequate welfare facilities for their employees at one of their sites.
Read moreDo you read the manufacturer’s instructions? It is always advisable to follow manufacturer’s instructions to understand the operations of a piece of equipment. However, when we are at home generally the ‘man’ will throw away the instructions. Then try and build or set up the equipment, get frustra…
Read moreCan managing health and safety make my business successful? A question that has probably been thought about by managers and senior figures in their organisation, but whether it made it as an agenda item at the monthly meeting is arguable. So let me give you the reasons how managing health and safe…
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On 15th March 2023 the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, released the Spring 2023 Budget! Our sister company Vantage has a team of experienced Tax and VAT advisors that have kindly provided a summary of this!
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The working status of a person providing services to an organization is very important for tax and employment law purposes because if the organization gets it wrong and the courts decide that the status relates to that of an employee or worker, they may be subject to various claims such as unpaid st…
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A recent study by Evac+Chair International has found that 25% of businesses are unaware of how many of their staff have mobility issues, and four in five are unsure about their statutory obligations.
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PCP stands for provision, criterion or practice. PCP is a legal term used in indirect sex discrimination cases, refers to a factor/requirement that is applied uniformly to all employees yet unintentionally disadvantages one or more of them.
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The Earl Shilton Town Council in Leicestershire lost its appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal for direct sex discrimination for failing to provide adequate toilet facilities for females.
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(BED) arises when a person consumes a lot of food over a short period of time normally in circumstances where they are distressed and feel out of control and may relate to a serious mental health illness where the person may not be aware of the (BED) or be in denial that there is an issue making the…
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