Managing employees/workers

New and updated

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  Policies and procedures

  Use of personal devices for work/bringing your own device to work policy

  Updated to set out: the implications of the General Data Protection Regulation; the strict limits on what data should be held on personal devices; to whom data breaches should be reported; and how personal data will be handled when monitoring use of personal devices for work.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Stop and search consent form

  A model form to seek consent from an individual to submit to a search.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Shared parental pay: EAT overturns finding of sex discrimination

  In Capita Customer Management Ltd v Ali and another, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that the failure to pay a father shared parental pay at the same rate as an employee on maternity leave is not sex discrimination.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer hold an unsuccessful candidate's CV on file in case a further job vacancy arises?

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  FAQs

  For how long should an employer keep an employee or ex-employee's personnel files?

• Type:

  FAQs

  What principles are employers obliged to follow to ensure that personal data is handled correctly?

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Covert recording of disciplinary panel's private deliberations was admissible

  In Fleming v East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that covert recordings of the private deliberations of the disciplinary panel were admissible as evidence, except for any content covered by legal professional privilege.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can expired warnings be taken into account when deciding a penalty during subsequent disciplinary proceedings?

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Form for notification of employee's intention to take adoption leave (adoption within UK)

  A model form to give employees the means to request statutory adoption leave and pay in respect of a child adopted from within the UK.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Form for employee to request to vary adoption leave start date

  A model form to give an employee who has requested adoption leave the means to notify the organisation of a variation to the adoption leave start date.