End of employment

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• Type:

  Interactive flowcharts

  Death of a worker: Respond to notification of the death of a worker

  Use this death of a worker flowchart to deal with the administrative, legal and practical steps that an employer must consider and undertake when it is notified that one of its workers has died.

• Type:

  Interactive flowcharts

  Redundancy: Conduct a redundancy process

  Use this redundancy consultation flowchart where a business or workplace is closing, or there is a diminished need for employees to carry out work of a particular kind.

• Type:

  Interactive flowcharts

  Redundancy: Conduct an election for employee representatives for collective redundancy consultation

  Use this redundancy flowchart to carry out an election of employee representatives for collective redundancy consultation purposes.

• Type:

  Interactive flowcharts

  References: Provide a reference on a former or current employee

  Use this references flowchart on receiving a request for a reference for a current or former employee from a prospective employer.

• Type:

  Interactive flowcharts

  Resignation: Deal with an employee's resignation

  Use this resignation flowchart to deal with an employee's resignation, bearing in mind the employee's contractual obligations regarding matters such as notice, restrictive covenants and the return of company property.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Unfair dismissal: Employee's covert recording was not gross misconduct

  In Northbay Pelagic Ltd v Anderson, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the employer's decision to dismiss an employee for installing a surveillance camera at work was unfair.

• Date:

  9 March 2021

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  April 2021 employment law changes: Five things for HR to do

  While continuing to deal with the impact of coronavirus, HR professionals must ensure that their organisation complies with the usual raft of April employment law changes. In April 2021, these changes include the extension of IR35 reforms to the private sector, a tweak to the national minimum wage age bands, and increases to statutory redundancy pay and statutory maternity pay.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Form setting out redundancy payment calculation

  A model form to provide details of how a redundancy payment has been calculated.

• Type:

  Policies and procedures

  Enhanced redundancy payments policy

  A model policy to offer employees an enhanced redundancy payment.

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Lay-off and short-time working

  The law on lay-off and short-time working, including the contractual right to lay off or put on short-time working, obtaining express consent where there is no contractual right, the operation of the contract during lay-off, and the right to obtain a redundancy payment.