Managing employees/workers

New and updated

• Type:

  FAQs

  If an employee works part of the day before going home sick, should this day count as sickness absence?

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  FAQs

  Is an employee who resigns while on maternity leave entitled to notice pay?

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Employee who commented on Facebook that she worked "in a nursery" was unfairly dismissed

  An increasing number of tribunal cases involve employees making work-related comments on Facebook. This case shows that derogatory comments will by no means always justify dismissal.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer require employees to pay for their uniforms?

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  FAQs

  What should an employer do if an employee fails to attend a disciplinary hearing?

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  FAQs

  Who is covered by the working hours provisions of the Working Time Regulations 1998?

• Date:

  23 August 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  EAT upholds decision that former NHS trust chief executive was dismissed for making protected disclosure

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld the employment tribunal decision that a former NHS trust chief executive was automatically unfairly dismissed for making a protected disclosure. 

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  SMP1 form

  The prescribed form to explain why an employee is not eligible for statutory maternity pay.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Are agency workers employed by the agency or the hirer?

• Type:

  FAQs

  What restrictions are there on employment businesses charging "temp to perm" fees in relation to agency workers?