Five steps to becoming a fertility friendly workplace
As many as one in seven couples, may have difficulty conceiving. The number could have a huge impact on your people as the reality of the challenge couples and individuals…
What is a tribunal and how can they be avoided?
Employment tribunal’s deal with claims brought against employers by employees. Claims can typically relate to unfair and wrongful dismissals, discrimination, equal pay, and deductions from wages. When employment tribunals were…
Maternity leave – What are the current requirements?
When you take time off to have a baby you might be eligible for Statutory Maternity Leave and Statutory Maternity Pay. Below we have outlined what you could be entitled…
Employee entitlement to the Bank Holiday
In 2022, the May Spring Bank Holiday will be moved to Thursday 2nd June and an additional Bank Holiday on Friday 3rd June will create a four-day weekend to help…
Returning back to the workplace
With restrictions slowly easing, there are plenty of employers who will be looking to get their employees back to the workplace as soon as they can. But many of us…
How can HR help with Mental Health Awareness?
HR professionals are faced with a lot of tough situations during the course of their careers. One such challenge could be learning that an employee is struggling with mental health…
IR35 – Are you ready?
Despite the pandemic adding a year’s extension to the original IR35 deadline, recent surveys have shown nearly half of mid-size employers are not prepared for it. Under IR35 if a…
National Minimum Wage for Sleep in shifts
There has been a further ruling in the supreme court which has concluded the long argument surrounding the MENCAP dispute over pay for care workers who ‘sleep over’ as part…
EU Settlement – The point system
Employees who were living in the UK before the end of 2020 must apply for the EU settlement scheme by the end of June 2021. Those individuals who have resided…