by Solutions for HR | May 9, 2019 | Employment Law News
Employees encouraged to shout out insults and offensive terms Pobl Group, a housing association, organised diversity training for its staff on the 8th March 2018. Teresa Georges was a cleaner for the Group, recently employed on the 4th January 2018. During this...
by Solutions for HR | May 9, 2019 | Employment Law News
Entitled to National Minimum Wage? In the case of Frudd v Partington Group, the EAT had to decide whether wardens/receptionists who were on call from evening to morning were working on “time work” and therefore entitled to National Minimum Wage. The Claimants, who...
by Solutions for HR | Apr 11, 2019 | Employment Law News
Breach of his working time rights? The Court of Appeal has unanimously ruled against a railway signal box worker who claimed his inability to take an uninterrupted break at work amounted to a breach of his working time rights. Under Working Time Regulations (WTR)...
by Solutions for HR | Apr 11, 2019 | Employment Law News
Employee with depression awarded £35,000 after being denied flexible working A DWP employee who suffered from depression has been awarded £35,677 after he was denied flexible working hours by his employer and in doing so, failed to make reasonable adjustments. The...
by Solutions for HR | Mar 29, 2019 | Employment Law News
There has been uncertainty for a while on the status of zero hours contracts We now have some clarity… A zero-hours contract is an arrangement whereby an individual agrees to be available for work as and when required, yet the employer is not obliged to provide the...
by Solutions for HR | Mar 29, 2019 | Employment Law News
Innocent until proven guilty? You’ve just received a phone call from your employees next of kin to advise that they can’t come into work as they have been arrested. Where does this leave you? Although an arrest suggests wrongdoing, it’s important to remember that a...
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