Flexible employment and HR advice service
2017-02-27For our spring series of seminars this year, we will be looking at the topic of Equality and Discrimination, discussing the different types of discrimination, disability discrimination in focus and equal pay. As always, we will round off the sessions with employment legislation and case law update. Further details can […]
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2017-02-24Question: “We have an employee who is due to give birth in a few weeks. The employee was supposed to commence maternity leave at that time, but has now provided us with notice of resignation and will leave us before her maternity leave starts. Do we have to pay her […]
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2017-02-22“Since our establishment in July 2015, Independent Living Fund Scotland (ILF Scotland) has worked with Navigator. This has included the following: auditing and developing a full range of HR policies and procedures; helping formulate our approach to organisational development and performance management; job evaluation; auditing and advising us on […]
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2017-02-17Prior to the introduction of the new National Living Wage (NLW) in April 2016, the National Minimum Wage (NMW) increased on 1 October each year. The NMW will now increase each April, and from 1 April 2017 the new rates will be as follows: The NLW, for those aged 25 […]
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2017-02-13Ms Collins, a student who was working part time in a Wilko store in Leicester, has been left paralysed due to severe spinal injuries caused when a metal cage full of paint tins fell on her on the shop floor. Ms Collins was trying to move the cage, packed full […]
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2017-02-07The Court of Appeal (CA) has upheld a finding that an employee’s summary dismissal (i.e. without notice) following a finding of gross negligence was lawful as it amounted to gross misconduct. In most instances, a finding of gross misconduct is made in relation to a particular act committed by the […]
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