In the past few months we have been asked by 6 separate clients (different industries and locations) to help them deal with sickness absence.
Before that, we hadn’t had to do any GP reports for almost a year. What is going on out there??!!
Tales of an HR Services expert – Day 2: Recruitment
Don’t do this!
• Recruit someone you find attractive (apparently most of us do!)
• Accept their word that they can do something – test them
• Reject them giving one of the protected characteristics as a reason (unlimited £££ tribunal claim)
Invasion of the Identity Snatchers
What, an invasion? Well, not that bad, but it is an area that employers need to protect themselves. From what? Identity fraud and unwittingly employing illegal workers.
In Terminator they used dogs to sniff out the “intruders”, the robots. We need to use a much more banal way – seeing their photo ID! [Read more…]
Flexible working even more flexible!
Sometime this year, employers worst fears will be realised: EVERY employee will be able to request flexible working!
This is a change which was supposed to come into effect from April 2014, but somewhat strangely ACAS had not got the guidance finished on it in time, so the introduction of this new right has been delayed. [Read more…]
My employee resigned, didn’t she?!
This case was frustrating because my client had really bent over backwards to help, and it had backfired badly.
The employee had resigned, and then said that as she was intending to move up north, and things hadn’t been finalised, could she stay on till the end of term (this was in a preschool). My client agreed (this was before I was advising her, I hasten to add) because she was having trouble finding a replacement. This continued for the next year. The employee kept saying she was leaving, even had a leaving party that all the parents came to, but kept delaying because her house wasn’t ready or she didn’t want to move her son before the end of the school year.
Don’t do this!
Recruitment
- Recruit someone you find attractive (apparently most of us do!)
- Accept their word that they can do something – test them!
- Reject them giving one of the protected characteristics as a reason (unlimited £££ tribunal claim)
