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  • 29 April 2016
  • Employment

If it’s work-related – it’s not a private matter!

In the recent case of Garamukanwa v Solent NHS Trust an employer was held not to have breached an employee’s right to a private and family life
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  • 27 April 2016
  • Employment

New pressures on HR from supply chain risks

Convergence of various developments will pull over stretched HR more towards how to manage and monitor supply chain issues, especially when contracting with overseas countries that have a high risk profile for workforce practices that offend international standards and UK corporate values.
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  • 22 April 2016
  • Employment

Contractual staff handbooks

In the case of Department for Transport v Sparks and others, the Department of Transport (DfT) wanted to implement a new attendance management procedure. This new procedure contained provisions allowing for the formal absence management process to be triggered earlier than was currently the case.
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  • 22 April 2016
  • Employment

Employers no longer have to pay National Insurance contributions for apprentices under the age of 25

April 2016 marks a change in the law that is designed to further encourage employers to take on more apprentices. Since 6 April 2016 employers no longer have to pay National Insurance contributions for apprentices under the age of 25 for earnings below £827 per week (£43,000 per year).
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  • 19 April 2016
  • Employment

Cultural leadership and HR

What is the "culture" of a business? How would employees describe it?
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  • 19 April 2016
  • Employment

Convergence of best practice and business sense: The role of Human Resources in a complex international landscape

As reports of violence, extremism and endemic corruption across the world seem an everyday occurrence a perplexed business executive, who knows that there is a big world out there to do business in, may ask where on earth can I safely travel and where can I confidently do any business?
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  • 14 April 2016
  • Employment

Employer’s reasonable and genuine belief can be sufficient for SOSR dismissal

In Nayak v Royal Mail Group, the EAT upheld the tribunal’s decision that an employer’s genuine and reasonable belief that an employee was no longer permitted to work in the UK was sufficient to show that he had been dismissed for some other substantial reason (SOSR).
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  • 14 April 2016
  • Employment

Disciplining an employee for imposing her religious beliefs was not discriminatory

The EAT has held in Wasteney v East London NHS Foundation Trust that a Christian senior manager was not discriminated against when she was subjected to disciplinary proceedings for imposing her religious views on a Muslim junior employee.
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  • 08 April 2016
  • Employment

Payments to ex-employee during restrictive covenant period made no difference to enforceability

The recent case of Bartholomews Agri Food v Thornton has provided some useful guidance to employers who wish to rely on restrictive covenants when an employee leaves.

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