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HGV driver wins unfair dismissal claim after fight with colleague
In November 2022 the London South Tribunal heard the unfair dismissal claim of A Milea
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Jan 12, 20232 min read
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Train driver wins unfair dismissal claim despite posting offensive and discriminatory tweets
In November 2022 the Employment Tribunal heard the unfair dismissal claim of an employee of train operator First MTR South Western Trains
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Jan 10, 20232 min read
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Furlough: HMRC step-by-step guide to making a claim
Claim for your employees wages through coronavirus job retention scheme.
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Apr 18, 20201 min read
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How to make a claim under the furlough scheme
You can only claim for periods when your employee was on furlough. You must claim for all employees in each period at one time ....
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Apr 18, 20203 min read
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Holiday Pay, Statutory Leave, Unpaid Leave and Furlough
The employer & employee can agree to vary holiday entitlement as part of the furlough agreement, however almost all workers are entitled to.
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Apr 18, 20202 min read
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Furlough: claiming pension contributions
You’ll still need to pay pension contributions on behalf of your furloughed employees
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Apr 18, 20203 min read
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Furlough: claiming employer National Insurance contributions
The total grant for employer National Insurance contributions cannot exceed the total amount of employer National Insurance contributions..
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Apr 18, 20205 min read
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Furlough: Working out the maximum wage amount you can claim
The maximum wage amount you can claim is £2,500 a month, or £576.92 a week, plus any National Insurance and pension contributions.
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Apr 18, 20206 min read
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Furlough: What to include when calculating wages
The amount you should use when calculating 80% of your employee's wages is regular payments you are obliged to make.
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Apr 18, 20202 min read
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Holidays during and beyond the furlough period
Confusion remains around the issue of holidays and furlough: can employees take holiday during furlough?
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Apr 4, 20202 min read
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Furloughing staff. What, when, how?
With the coronavirus outbreak, many employers are considering reducing their workforce. The Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme..
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Mar 25, 20205 min read
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What do you pay when an employee is off sick during their notice period..?
The rules surrounding sick pay are complex, none more so than when an employee is on sick leave during their notice period.
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Sep 10, 20192 min read
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Blurring of work and home life: are there ‘winners’ and ‘losers’?
The US comedian Carrie Snow once said new technology “brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other”.
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Jun 28, 20193 min read
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Gender-neutral ads to encourage female STEM apprentices
Women represented just under 9% of #STEM apprenticeship starters in 2017/18, according to gender balance campaign group WISE.
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Jun 13, 20192 min read
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Farmer fined after worker suffers fatal fall
Mold Magistrates’ Court heard how on 19 July 2018 self-employed contractor David Alan Rees was fatally injured whilst he was clearing out...
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May 24, 20191 min read
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Waste plant fined £500k over fatal wheeled loader crush
George Richardson had worked for Sanders Waste and Plant Management at its site in Pegswood, near Morpeth, for ten years when the accident
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May 16, 20192 min read
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Energy giant fined £230,000 for unfairly dismissing employee that ‘HR didn’t know how to deal with’
“One of the UK’s largest energy providers has been ordered to pay an employee £230,000 for unfair dismissal
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May 2, 20193 min read
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Reliance on agency workers increases as confidence in economy drops
When asked about economic conditions in the country as a whole 13% of employers said they were getting better, while 44% believed they were.
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Apr 26, 20192 min read
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Unguarded machine trapped worker’s hand
On 25 April 2018, an experienced worker was making concrete screen wall blocks at their site in West Sussex
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Apr 11, 20191 min read
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HSE’s suite of RIDDOR Forms to be refreshed
These reports simply let the relevant enforcing authority know that an incident has occurred so they can identify where and how risks arise,
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Mar 27, 20191 min read
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