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!
Tales of an HR Services Expert – Day 23: Early Conciliation
…and it all changes back!
Having previously blogged about the changes to employment tribunals, today is about the change in the other direction – early conciliation.
Fees were introduced to the employment tribunals to stop disgruntled staff trying it on. Now they can again “try it on”!
Tales of an HR Services Expert – Day 22: Employment tribunals
Big change!
From 29 July 2013 disgruntled employees had to pay fees to start a tribunal claim.
The minimum fee is £160 for a Type A case (e.g. unlawful deductions from earnings, i.e. you haven’t paid them what they are owed; unfair dismissal).
Tales of an HR Services Expert – Day 14: Minimum Wage
Doing employees a favour doesn’t always work
I was approached by a company to help with a situation that was baffling them.
They had employed someone who wasn’t really as experienced as they would have liked, but they liked him and created a job for him.
However what they also did was pay him less than minimum wage. [Read more…]
