Managing employees/workers

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• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter informing employee on maternity leave of job vacancy

  A model letter to inform an employee on maternity leave of a job vacancy.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter making informal enquiries about employee's intentions on returning to work after maternity leave

  A model letter to make informal enquiries of an employee on maternity leave about whether they intend to return to work.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter congratulating employee on birth of baby

  A model letter to congratulate an employee on the birth of their baby.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter reminding employee absent for pregnancy-related reason that absence continuing into fourth week before expected week of childbirth triggers maternity leave

  A model letter to inform an employee who is absent for a pregnancy-related reason that, if their absence continues into the fourth week before the expected week of childbirth, this will trigger the start of their maternity leave and pay.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter responding to employee whose maternity leave has been triggered by maternity-related absence

  A model letter to write to an employee whose maternity leave (and pay) period has been triggered by absence for a pregnancy-related reason after the start of the fourth week before the expected week of childbirth.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Employer wrong to rely on employee's "flippant" attitude during disciplinary hearing

  In this case, the employment tribunal held that an employer placed too much emphasis on an employee's "flippant" and "sarcastic" attitude during a disciplinary hearing and failed properly to consider the flaws in the evidence against him.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Where an employee who lives in employer-provided accommodation becomes pregnant must the employer permit them to continue to live there after the birth?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Where an employee slips on snow or ice on the employer's premises will they be entitled to compensation?

• Date:

  28 March 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  No positive duty on employer to correct claimant's ET1 deadline mistake

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the employment tribunal was wrong to decide that employers have a positive duty to correct employees or ex-employees in relation to misapprehensions that they have about time limits for bringing claims. 

• Type:

  Policies and procedures

  Requests in relation to study or training policy

  A model policy on the right to make a request in relation to study or training.