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Can I make them work their notice?

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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…]

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Tales of an HR Services Expert – Day 19: Heat of the moment resignations

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My employee gave me their verbal resignation yesterday and wants to come back today – do I have to let them?

If it was a “heat of the moment” resignation, usually yes.

Resignation is unilateral, in that you don’t need to “accept” it for it to be valid.

That said, if there has been a discussion, tempers got frayed, and your employee storms out saying “you can stuff your job!”, then you should give them the chance to cool down.

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Tales of an HR Services Expert – Day 9: Avoiding expensive mistakes

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So. You’re a small business with just a few employees, and managing them is one job you have to do yourself. And do it well.

Learn from the costly traps that other employers have fallen into, with this free guide on the pitfalls you simply must avoid. Remember these are the seven biggest mistakes that employers make which lead straight to a tribunal and cost them their personal cash – so beware!

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Tales of an HR Services Expert – Day 1: they do resign!

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Just to let you know, that sometimes problem staff really do resign without us having to follow the long process to fire them!

The employee in question was approaching the end of her maternity leave. As she normally worked at a third-party site, we informed them that she would be back on site in the next couple of weeks. Whereupon the third-party client informed us that they didn’t want her back at all, but they would take another cleaner.

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My employee resigned, didn’t she?!

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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.

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