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Managing employees/workers

New and updated

  • Date:
    2 November 2023
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Webinar: Handling HR nightmares

    We look at workplace scenarios that can strike fear into the heart of the most experienced HR professionals, including issues relating to: discipline and grievances; redundancy; and new legislation.

  • Type:
    Policies and procedures

    Obtaining medical reports policy

    Updated to extend the circumstances that may lead to a request for a medical report.

  • Type:
    How to

    How to manage annualised hours contracts

    Reviewed and updated to focus on practical guidance for HR

  • Type:
    Training

    Long-term sickness - line manager training

    Updated to reflect that nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists and physiotherapists can issue fit notes from 1 July 2022.

  • Type:
    Letters and forms

    Statement of fitness for work (fit note)

    Updated to link to the Government's updated sample fit note, which now contains a numbered guide explaining each section of the fit note.

  • Date:
    6 October 2023
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: Flexible working - current obligations and future reforms

    In this edition of the podcast, we are joined by XpertHR senior legal editor Laura Merrylees to answer questions around flexible working reforms in the media and elsewhere recently.

  • Type:
    Contract clauses

    Annualised hours contract clause

    Overhauled and enhanced to provide more comprehensive clauses, which can be included in a contract of employment.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Supreme Court rules on historic holiday pay claims

    In Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and another v Agnew, the Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeal's decision that police officers and civilian police support staff in Northern Ireland can recover holiday underpayments that stretch back as far as 1998.

  • Date:
    5 October 2023
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Hybrid working - the "new normal": What we found out

    Director of Epic HR Gary Cookson recently delivered a webinar for XpertHR entitled Hybrid working - How to personalise the employee experience. During the session, he asked attendees a number of questions about the realities of the new post-Covid world, which is increasingly characterised by hybrid working arrangements.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Menopause: Failure to make reasonable adjustments

    In Lynskey v Direct Line Insurance Services Ltd, an employment tribunal held that the employer discriminated against the employee by failing to make reasonable adjustments to account for her menopause symptoms, and that disciplinary action taken over her performance issues was unlawful discrimination arising from her disability.

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