Managing employees/workers

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• Type:

  FAQs

  What adjustments to a new mother's working conditions or hours of work might an employer make?

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  FAQs

  Can employees change their mind about when they want their maternity leave to start?

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  Employment law cases

  Dismissal rendered unfair by one manager's involvement throughout disciplinary process

  One manager's involvement throughout a disciplinary process can render an otherwise fair dismissal unfair, as the employer in this case discovered.

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  How to

  How to arrange cover for an employee's maternity leave

  Practical guidance on arranging cover for an employee's maternity leave, including fixed-term workers; secondment; acting up; arranging the handover; and the employee's return to work.

• Type:

  FAQs

  What notice of the date that they want their statutory maternity pay to begin do employees have to give?

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  FAQs

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

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  FAQs

  Can an employee who does not have average weekly earnings of at least the lower earnings limit claim any financial assistance throughout their maternity leave?

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  FAQs

  Does an employee who wishes to exercise their right to statutory maternity leave have to give their employer all the required information at the same time?

• Type:

  How to

  How to handle appeals against grievance decisions

  Practical guidance on handling appeals against grievance decisions, including the Acas code of practice; the right to be accompanied; and conducting the appeal hearing.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Probationer's dismissal for proposed jury service absence was automatically unfair

  A dismissal where the reason (or the principal reason) is an employee's jury service will be automatically unfair, regardless of the employee's length of service, as this case demonstrates.