Personnel Today reports on the alarm expressed by businesses on the European Parliament’s vote to end the maximum working week opt-out. The statistics quoted are telling enough as to how its end would effect the UK workforce – around 1 in 10 employees work more than the 48 hour working week, but for more than [...]
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This blog is getting a little minimum wage-centric at the moment, but there’s a recent EAT case that re-emphasises what must, by now, be well settled law. Mrs Hughes worked in a care home, which provided her with a flat on-site. In return for a £150 per month rent subsidy, she was required to be [...] Employers frequently do not wish an employee to stay at work during his notice period. Although everyone would accept that there is an obligation to pay notice even if the employee is sat at home, it can irk employers that they have to pay for the notice period, and then pay accrued holiday on top. [...] There’s something comforting and old-fashioned about the name. The establishment of the Board, together with the introduction of a single telephone helpline to report sharp practice by employers, has been announced in this BERR press release. A summary of the new measures is given: Establishing a Fair Employment Enforcement Board to drive continued progress towards effective collaboration between [...] Long term sick absentees from work are a problem. It’s a problem for them, because they’re sat at home generally stressed out about the fact they’ve a job they haven’t seen for months or years – a tie that sometimes can prevent recovery. It’s a problem for the state, which is contributing to their SSP [...] So let’s get started! The new increase in holiday entitlements has caused much confusion. It’s bank holidays that cause the difficulty you see. Calling them bank holidays, public holidays, and worst of all statutory holidays gives people the understandable impression that they’re actually entitled to take them off. Not so. There is actually no [...] |
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