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Simon Forrest, Chambers & Cook
Latest nightmare on holiday and variable pay
The Working Time Regulations 1998 are 22 years old and if I am honest in need a massive overhaul. One area we employers really need clarity is the area of holiday and overtime. The regulations unhelpfully don't state how holiday pay is calculated. Nice work...
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“But I haven’t joined here to clean!”
The other week we were advising a client whose new employee had walked off and not returned citing that she hadn't expected to be ask to do any cleaning. It makes me think about what is a reasonable management instruction. When we take a job and see the line in the...
read moreIs it OK to request that employees communicate in English when performing work?
I was watching the TV detective show Agatha Raisin this weekend. In the episode a Farm Shop had two young men come in to the scene talking in Polish, with English subtitles immediately coming on to the screen. The Farm Shop Owner then addresses the men and says she...
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Do we have a legal right to take employee’s temperatures as part of a COVID secure strategy?
Should we be at work? The Government's current advice does not address checking the temperatures of staff before allowing them to enter or remain at their work premises. The official advice is still that people should continue to stay at home as much as possible....
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Are employees entitled to be paid their full contractual pay on keeping-in-touch days?
Let's Keep In Touch! Since the introduction of the Maternity and Parental Leave Regulations 1999, regulation 12A, provides the right to work up to ten KIT days during maternity leave. We shouldnt forget that maternity leave lasts for up to 52 weeks regardless of...
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The (very) Flexible Furlough Scheme from 1st July
Late last night (at 9.30 p.m.) the Government updated its guidance on how to claim for wages under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme from 1st July. As we are still in June I am first going to remind you of the actions you need to be aware of before we get to 1st...
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Avoiding allegations of indirect sex discrimination with breast feeding mothers
It's probably not the first thing you ask a mother when she returns from maternity leave. "Hey, great to see you, please tell me whether you intend to breastfeed when you are at back!" But given the case of McFarlane and another v easyJet Airline Company Ltd, the...
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Don’t forget to re-enrol workers into your pension scheme
Every three years you must put certain staff who have left your pension scheme back into it. This is called re-enrolment, sometimes automatic re-enrolment or cyclical re-enrolment. To comply with the requirements of the Pensions Regulator firms must put the staff who...
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Manage staff working from home
It's become the new normal up and down the land. Offices have been vacated leaving staff to work at home. It may not be ideal, but we've had to make it work. In our case, there was work to be done. So how do you manage people working from home. Firstly you can't worry...
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Holiday during the closure
I am writing this to try and answer what many of you are asking about how holidays will work whilst your business is closed. This blog attempts to answer what you can do if the majority of staff are furloughed under the Job Retention Scheme as you have no work for...
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Chris D. Redditch