Managing employees/workers
A model letter inviting an employee to a stage 3 short-term sickness absence formal review meeting.
A model letter inviting an employee to a short-term sickness absence appeal hearing.
An employment tribunal has held that the employer breached the claimant's right to be accompanied when it refused to allow his chosen companions, trade union representatives, to accompany him at a disciplinary appeal hearing. However, it awarded compensation of £2 only, on the basis that the employer had understandable reasons for the refusal.
The Court of Appeal has held that the employer was not required to match each category of gross misconduct to each allegation and that how the conduct was eventually categorised was a matter for the decision-maker after all the evidence had been adduced.
Updated to take into account the new duty on public-sector employers to publish trade union facility time, effective from 1 April 2017.
Updated to take into account the new duty on public-sector employers to publish trade union facility time, effective from 1 April 2017.
Chris Cook is a partner and Keely Rushmore is a senior associate at SA Law. They round up the latest rulings.
Practical guidance on dealing with the situation where an employee becomes pregnant again while on maternity leave, including entitlement to SMP.
An employment tribunal has held that an Excel cycle courier was a worker and that his contract with the courier company mislabelled him as self-employed.
HR and legal information and guidance relating to managing employees/workers.