Managing employees/workers
Updated to include information on Talon Engineering Ltd v Smith, concerning the employer's refusal to postpone a disciplinary hearing to allow the employee to be accompanied.
A model letter turning down or modifying an employee's request for compassionate leave.
A model letter to an employee rescheduling a disciplinary appeal meeting.
A model letter rescheduling a disciplinary meeting.
A model form to conduct a data protection impact assessment for potentially high-risk data processing. The form, which complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), uses the example of an impact assessment when an employer is proposing to introduce CCTV monitoring in a particular location.
Consultant editor Darren Newman looks at a recent decision highlighting the potential danger in proceeding with a disciplinary hearing where the employee's chosen companion is not available - even where the requested postponement falls outside the period allowed for under the statutory right to be accompanied.
A model privacy notice to give contractors information about how their personal data will be used, in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
A model privacy notice to give workers information about how their personal data will be used, in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
This article looks at local authority discipline and dismissal procedures for senior officers, and the involvement of councillors in other disciplinary action.
In Talon Engineering Ltd v Smith, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that an employer's refusal to postpone a disciplinary hearing for two weeks to allow the employee's union official to accompany her made her dismissal unfair.
HR and legal information and guidance relating to managing employees/workers.