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Managing employees/workers

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  • Type:
    Policies and procedures

    Parental bereavement leave policy

    A model policy to set out employees' entitlement to parental bereavement leave and pay.

  • Type:
    Letters and forms

    Letter explaining parental bereavement leave to managers

    A model letter to explain to managers the right to parental bereavement leave.

  • Type:
    Policies and procedures

    Work experience policy

    Updated to reflect the reduction in the age threshold for the national living wage and increases to national minimum wage rates, effective from 1 April 2021.

  • Date:
    22 March 2021
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Homeworking: Helping employees to balance work and caring commitments

    Lockdown has brought many challenges for employers and employees alike - not least those who have had to juggle their day-to-day work with home schooling a child or caring for another dependant. Graham Brown takes a look at ways in which employers can help support working carers and parents.

  • Date:
    18 March 2021
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Webinar: The future of the workplace

    Gemma Dale, HR professional and coach and lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, discusses what we have learned as a result of mass homeworking and how we can use this learning to shape future plans and working patterns for the workplace.

  • Type:
    Letters and forms

    Letter inviting employee to meeting to discuss move to hybrid working

    A model letter to invite an employee to a meeting to discuss a potential permanent move to hybrid/blended working. For example, your organisation could seek to agree with the employee to split their time between working from home and attending the workplace, or to build increased flexibility into the employee's working location.

  • Type:
    Letters and forms

    Letter to employee confirming move to hybrid working

    A model letter to confirm a permanent move to hybrid/blended working. For example, your organisation could have agreed with the employee to split their time between working at home and attendance at the workplace, or to build increased flexibility into the employee's working location.

  • Date:
    9 March 2021
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    April 2021 employment law changes: Five things for HR to do

    While continuing to deal with the impact of coronavirus, HR professionals must ensure that their organisation complies with the usual raft of April employment law changes. In April 2021, these changes include the extension of IR35 reforms to the private sector, a tweak to the national minimum wage age bands, and increases to statutory redundancy pay and statutory maternity pay.

  • Type:
    Employment law guide

    Lay-off and short-time working

    This guide explains the law around lay-off and short-time working, under which an employer can exercise a contractual right to stop or reduce an employee's pay where it has insufficient work for them. The employer must have a contractual right, or the employee's consent, to do this.

  • Date:
    1 March 2021
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: Supporting employees affected by miscarriage or stillbirth

    Vicki Robinson, deputy director at the Miscarriage Association, and Jo Broadbent, counsel knowledge lawyer at Hogan Lovells, discuss how to support employees affected by miscarriage or stillbirth.

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