If you’ve been in business for a while, you’ll be familiar with the trends coming round and round again.
And often in small business marketing, with marketers trying to sell new initiatives all the time, methods die and then rise from the ashes like a phoenix, only to be pronounced dead again when the marketer needs to sell a new service.
And particularly with GDPR coming in, the death of email marketing has been predicted – again.
Yes! If you employ anyone, be it a receptionist, sales person or nanny means that you have responsibilities under employment law.
As is usual in law, ignorance is not a defence and will not protect you!
You don’t need to pay redundancy to staff who have worked less than two years for you. You will obviously have to pay them their notice period.
You do need to pay redundancy to staff who have worked for you for more than two years. Statutory redundancy pay is currently max £538 per year’s service. You will have to pay them their notice period.
In addition, you will have to follow a fair and reasonable consultation process. This needs to be at least 3 weeks long. The employee also has the right of appeal.
Short answer to this is no (sorry, know you didn’t want to hear that!). They may have stormed out after a row. They may have calmly handed in their notice once their pay was on their bank account. But as far as they’re concerned, it’s over.
You could try and get them to stay with financial incentives. But a court won’t make them work their notice period, as it considers your relationship “broken” (so don’t waste your breath threatening to sue).
You won’t have to pay them though, as they are refusing to work their notice period. [Read more…]
Our Gap HR HQ!
Our new offices in the Arcade in Goring-on-Thames, check out the fab window design!
Introducing our Gap HR team!
Back row, left to right: Jean Mitchell, Julie Hughes, Cathy Ryder
Front row, left to right: Sarah Boulton-Jones, Carolyne Wahlen, Comet, Sue Lyons
As you can see, our team has been growing! [Read more…]
Are Christmas decorations religious discrimination?
No! Don’t worry, it’s not political correctness gone mad!
Religious belief is protected by the Equality Act 2010. It doesn’t stop the display of Christmas decorations in the workplace. In fact, it doesn’t stop any traditional customs under religious discrimination.