So, to know how much you need to pay zero hours workers for redundancy, you need to look at the last 12 weeks of pay that they have received. You would discount any weeks that they haven’t actually worked, or they’ve been on holiday and you look at the last 12 weeks of actual work, and … Read more
You are putting one department on risk of redundancy that department will have told the other departments by that afternoon. So, you need to be having a combined communication strategy. This means that someone (club manager, couple of committee members) are talking to the department that’s at risk. In the meantime, all the other employees … Read more
So, you can use zoom a lot more. That’s a lot you can do a group meeting to talk to everybody on zoom, they don’t have to have their video turned on. And then inform them that way. You can talk to them on the telephone. You can talk to them by email, you can … Read more
Costs of redundancy, so that you have this in mind is you need to do three weeks consultation. Which is a normal salary and you’re paying tax and national insurance on that. Plus, their notice period, which again, is their normal salary with tax and national insurance paid on it You can pay them in … Read more
To make the process a bit easier is to ask for volunteers a little red man there putting up his hand. Voluntary redundancies, so the way to get people to volunteer for redundancy is to offer them more than they would have got if they were made compulsory redundant. So, if you might need to … Read more
If you only have one person in your redundancy pool, the courts see that as unfair dismissal. They see it as a not a fair redundancy process they see it as the employer trying to get rid of one employee. And that is, unfortunately, going to be the case that many committees are going to say “oh … Read more
So you’ve spoken to them individually. You’ve offered them all the jobs that are open, you don’t make any decision at this stage about whether they are suitable for them or not. You don’t say, “Oh but that s not going to pay enough so therefore, I’m not going to offer it”. You offer every … Read more
The process normally is three weeks consultation – it is a grey area. The ACAS guide is that it should be a reasonable consultation period. I have argued with clients, who then didn’t stay clients for very long, that one day was a reasonable consultation period. No, it’s not and you don’t want to be paying a … Read more
Filling the GAP in HR services: The most popular page…
Every now and again I take a look at the most popular pages on our website.
And pretty much every time I do, the same answer comes up, which is an article on the penalty for not issuing an employment contract.
Since it’s proved very popular online, it’s clearly an important topic, so I thought I’d dedicate an email to explaining the answer, to ensure you’ve got absolute clarity on where you stand.
So here goes…
Filling the GAP in HR services: Off to the Apollo….
Got any plans for tonight?
I’m off to the Apollo to see Jimmy Carr. I’ll get into the Big Smoke early, grab myself a bite to eat and enjoy an evening out.
Not really.
That was the plan, before Lockdown 2.0 got involved.
Now I’ll be fighting over a takeaway menu with a teenager having already lost the battle over the remote.
But although I’m disappointed not to be enjoying Jimmy’s acerbic wit this evening, I haven’t given up hope.
You see, the Apollo has learnt from the last lockdown.
Employers rejoice – the eternal battlefield of employment law has made a small but significant shift in favour of the employer.
And it’s in the area of disciplinaries.
Some employees are extremely canny when it comes to the disciplinary procedure.
They’ll push and push and push until it seems they can push no more, and they’ll receive a final written warning for their trouble.
Then they’ll commit a completely unrelated offence; one that has no relationship to the original offence.
Can you dismiss them for the unrelated offence?
Well, you couldn’t. But now you can.
Filling the GAP in HR services: Square Root of Diddly Squat
I doubt I’m alone in feeling a sense of déjà vu this week – the shelves are bare, Zoom quizzes are already being organised, and I’m receiving scores of emails from restaurants, hotels and other businesses explaining the degree to which they’re open or closed.
Which has afforded me the wonderful opportunity to shed the number of lists I’m on rather dramatically.
Unsubscribe. Unsubscribe. Unsubscribe.
