by Solutions for HR | Dec 20, 2018 | Employment Law News
We are nearing the end of the holiday year but what happens to annual leave if your employee hasn’t booked to take it? Is it lost? This was the question before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the case of Max-Planck-Gesellschaft v Shimizu 2018. Mr...
by Solutions for HR | Nov 20, 2018 | Employment Law News
Fixed-term contracts are useful for dealing with peaks and troughs in a business but can often also be used to “test” suitability of an employee. Where an FTC is for a short period of time and the person you’ve hired isn’t up to scratch you can simply let them go when...
by Solutions for HR | Nov 20, 2018 | Employment Law News
Would you be suspicious if an employee contacted you to say their return flight from holiday had been cancelled but they’d keep you informed and be back “as soon as possible”? We’d all agree that flights can be troublesome but it’s rare that holiday destination...
by Solutions for HR | Nov 20, 2018 | Employment Law News
It is 6 months since the introduction of GDPR and time we looked at the practical implications for HR following the new data protection rules. 1. Subject access data requests GDPR has made subject access requests (SARs) easier for employees with the abolition of the...
by Solutions for HR | Nov 20, 2018 | Employment Law News
This won’t surprise many of us but the UK has been branded the sickness capital of Europe because 27% of employees think it’s OK to take a day off sick when they aren’t actually ill! The 2018 European survey was conducted by payroll giant ADP. They surveyed 2,000...
by Solutions for HR | Nov 20, 2018 | Employment Law News
This issue has been in the spotlight for a number of years and is particularly acute in the care sector, where workers are often required to “sleep in” at their workplace, in order to handle any difficulty that arises during the night. The question has always been...
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