A Beginner’s Guide to Disciplinary Procedures – Part 1 Here at Avensure, the most frequent area of employment law/HR we are asked about are conduct and disciplinary issues. Matters of misconduct, whether they are fairly minor or whether they are serious, need to be handled in a fair way and in line with the employer’s …
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Top Tips on Managing Unauthorised Absence A hospital employee in Italy has been accused of being absent from work without authorisation for 15 years! Worse still, he appears to have been in receipt of full pay for the entire time. Whilst this is an extreme example of unauthorised absenteeism, many employers face the problem of …
The importance of taking minutes – Top tips and advice It’s a pesky task, one that you’re either good at or not (I certainly fall into the latter category), yet it’s very important and really can be the difference between winning or losing a tribunal. What is it? Minute taking in meetings or hearings. What …
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Can you insist employees’ take annual leave? Annual leave is a statutory right in the UK. The statutory annual leave entitlement in the UK for someone who works 5 days a week is 28 days (or 5.6 weeks). Employers may decide to give their staff a higher amount of leave than this but they cannot …
An Employer’s Guide to Equal Pay This week has seen another Supreme Court judgement which is very significant in Employment Law and has direct implications for the retail sector. Asda vs Brierley and others was a claim brought by Asda store workers, mainly women, who felt that they were entitled to the same pay as …
