Managing employees/workers
A model policy to set out your organisation's approach to international assignments in circumstances in which employees move temporarily to work in another country for another organisation in the same group of companies (sometimes known as an "inter-group transfer") where the employee remains employed by the UK organisation during the assignment.
In Hextall v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police and another, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) remitted to a fresh tribunal the issue of whether or not a police force's policy of giving a period of full pay to mothers on maternity leave, but paying only statutory shared parental pay to partners, is indirectly discriminatory.
Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.
Consultant editor Darren Newman considers the implications of a recent case involving a Jamaican bus driver who was dismissed when he could not provide the required documentation during his employer's audit of its workforce's right to work in the UK.
A model policy to detail the accepted use of hand-held or portable electronic devices, such as smartphones, tablets and laptops.
Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.
HR and legal information and guidance relating to managing employees/workers.