As an HR Consultant I come across many situations where employers want (or need) to take action to deal with employees who do something wrong. It happens. This is a case where an employer felt the employee had done something wrong so dismissed him believing the reasons for the dismissal were ‘right’. The Tribunal disagreed […]
In February this year, the Supreme Court provided its decision on a key employment case which has potentially far-reaching effects for those in the gig economy. Aslam & Others V Uber BV & Others This is a case primarily about ‘employment status’ but it also raises some very important points about the employment/services contract and […]
Changes to IR35 legislation applying to the private sector will now take effect from April 2021 Is this something you need to plan for or not? This legislation has been in the Public Sector for some time and was due to be introduced into the private sector this year but was delayed by Coronavirus. […]
Preparing for Home-Based Working Before Covid-19, the concept of Home Working tended to be more of an ‘exception’ rather than a ‘rule’. Certainly, when I was based in an office, I was able to ‘work from home’ occasionally but it never became the ‘norm’. Maybe that was because we just got used to going into […]
REDUNDANCY Since March 2020 when our world at work completely changed courtesy of Covid-19, the topic that seems to be top of the list of queries at the moment is, sadly, Redundancy. I wish it was a more positive topic to discuss but now that we are getting to the end of the timescale for […]