Can I terminate an employee on long term sick leave? As an employer, you must end employment 'fairly' when it relates to long term sickness. An employer can terminate any employee’s employment at any time – as in, employers are able to terminate employees’ employment whenever they want to – but [...]
Can a Settlement Agreement include restrictive covenants? Settlement agreements will often include 'restrictive covenants'. A Settlement Agreement can include whatever terms the parties are prepared to agree to regarding the termination of the employee’s employment, including restrictive covenants, which are also known as post termination restrictions. The question is what the [...]
How do you manage an employee who is not performing? Employees are unlikely to want to hear that they are not performing to standard. If an employee is not performing up to the required standards, you can put them into a performance management procedure. This is a process in which you [...]
Employment Facts and Figures 2023-2024 The facts and figures for Employment. Payment Rate as at April 2023-April 2024 Family friendly payments Statutory Maternity Pay 6 weeks at 90% of normal weekly earnings Then 33 weeks at £172.48 or earnings related rate if lower Statutory Paternity Pay Two weeks at £172.48 Statutory [...]
What is Harassment at work? Harassment at work is unwanted conduct toward another person. What types of harassment are there? There are several types of harassment: harassment because of certain protected characteristics, conduct of a sexual nature (sexual harassment) and where someone is treated less favourably because of their response to [...]
TWITTER - should Lineker get a BBC red card? Employment Law: did the BBC's social media policy restrict Lineker from freedom of speech? It’s been hard to avoid the furore over the weekend about the fallout from Gary Lineker’s tweets. I won’t go over the content here – I’m an employment [...]
How do you raise a concern by whistleblowing? Whistleblowing is when you report (what you see as) a wrongdoing in the workplace. How do you raise a concern about whistleblowing? Whistleblowing is where you make a “protected disclosure” about wrongdoing in the workplace, like criminal offences or regulatory breaches. A disclosure [...]
What is Age Discrimination? Age discrimination is protected against both for current employees, and also job applicants. Age discrimination is where you are treated unfairly at work because of your age. It can happen where you are younger or older than the person treating you unfairly. It can happen where decisions [...]
What is Disability Discrimination? The Equality Act sets out the law around disability discrimination. Disability discrimination is where you are treated less favourably because of a disability, or because of something arising from a disability. Harassment because of disability is another type of disability discrimination, as is a failure to make [...]
What is Religion or Belief Discrimination? The law requires employers to not discriminate because of religious beliefs. Under the Equality Act, you are protected against discrimination because you hold, or because you don’t hold, a particular religion or philosophical belief. It’s fairly straightforward to identify a religion, but it’s harder to [...]
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