Managing employees/workers

New and updated

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employee vary the start date of adoption leave?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Where an employee has given notice to vary the start date of their adoption leave, how should the employer respond?

• Type:

  Policies and procedures

  Severe weather and disruptions to public transport policy

  A model policy to set out how employees should manage employees who face difficulties attending their place of work and returning home during periods of severe weather or when there are disruptions to transport.

• Date:

  13 February 2012

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  ECJ: national legislation cannot make paid annual leave conditional on minimum period of work

  The European Court of Justice has said that it is contrary to the Working Time Directive (03/88/EC) for national legislation to make entitlement to paid annual leave conditional on a worker having worked a minimum of 10 days for the same employer in the holiday year.

• Type:

  FAQs

  What is the status of workers engaged on casual or zero hours contracts?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Where a fixed-term employee's contract is due to terminate while they are on maternity leave, must the employer re-employ them at the end of the maternity leave?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Does an employee need a minimum period of service to bring a claim of unfair dismissal when dismissed by reason of a TUPE transfer?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Under the TUPE legislation, where an employee has a bad attendance or disciplinary record, is the transferee obliged to accept the employee?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Does an employee have the right to time off if their child's school or nursery is closed unexpectedly, for example due to severe weather?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can employees be required to work on bank holidays?