What employment laws apply to remote employees? Remote workers have the same employment rights as colleagues. What employment laws apply to remote employees? In all the hype around remote and hybrid working in recent years, it’s easy to forget that remote employees and workers still have the same employment rights as [...]
Should I quit my job if it’s toxic? Being forced to leave your employment may be deemed 'constructive dismissal'. If you are forced to leave your job because your employer is treating you badly, then you may be entitled to resign and claim for constructive dismissal. But – and it’s a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What happens when you leave a company for a competitor? By definition, working in a particular industry will often see workers leave to work for competitors. Can employers prevent employees working for a competitor when they leave? Can employees get around a non compete clause? The answer is potentially yes - [...]
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