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- Type:
- Policies and procedures
Updated to include a Bereaved partner's paternity leave policy in the family-friendly leave section.
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- Type:
- Survey analysis
The first XpertHR survey on employee handbooks and HR policies investigates how HR professionals create and update their HR policies. It also explores key issues for organisations concerning their implementation and which are considered more challenging to maintain.
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- Date:
- 2 September 2021
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
When was the last time you reviewed your employees' contracts of employment? Do they reflect changed circumstances and current business needs? Employment lawyer Max Winthrop examines why it is important to understand and review the terms and conditions of the employment relationship, including those that may evolve through custom and practice.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
The High Court has held that an employee had no reasonable expectation of privacy when he used his employer's computer system to create,and transmit, personal email correspondence in the course of his employment.
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- Type:
- Policies and procedures
A model statement at the beginning of a staff handbook to cover administrative issues such as how your organisation will communicate changes to the handbook to staff.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
This case is a good example of how the terms of a staff handbook that is stated to be non-contractual can still be incorporated into an employee's contract of employment.
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- Date:
- 3 April 2007
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Keeley v Fosroc International Ltd [2006] IRLR 961, the Court of Appeal held that a provision for enhanced redundancy payments set out in a staff handbook that was incorporated into the employment contract constituted an express term of the individual contract of employment, thus conferring a contractual right to the payment.
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- Type:
- How to
Practical guidance on writing and amending an employee handbook, including incorporation into the employment contract and varying the contract.
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- Date:
- 10 January 2003
- Type:
- Employment law cases
An employee on long-term sick leave who failed to maintain communication with his employer regarding his continued absence, and who had not provided continuous medical certificates, was lawfully dismissed so as to terminate any entitlement to benefits under the employer's permanent health insurance scheme, the Court of Appeal holds in Briscoe v Lubrizol Ltd.