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Should we Always Dismiss for Gross Misconduct?
March 14, 2014
Sometimes Gross Misconduct doesn’t actually lead to termination for a key worker. It is quite a topical subject at present with the media focussing on Alan Pardew from Newcastle United…
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Are you of “Good Character”?
March 7, 2014
The Department of Health’s Fundamental Standards for CQC Regulation, now out for consultation, make three significant points relevant to the Human Resources arena: systems and processes must be established to…
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“I Can’t Get to Work”
February 27, 2014
– it’s floods, snow, severe weather warning, a sinkhole in the road…. This is one call any hard-pressed employer dreads and the solution may well be beyond the reach of…
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Do I Need to Know About TUPE?
February 21, 2014
If you outsource services such as catering or cleaning then you most probably will need to know about TUPE at some point. If you plan to buy or sell your…
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Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
February 12, 2014
The employee maintained (in his defence) that he was not aware that the woman wouldn’t appreciate the grope and, now he knew, he wouldn’t do it again. The Judge refused…
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Will You Listen???
February 4, 2014
Because you should! The Business Case Typically information flow in an organisation is downwards, but more recent thinking challenges the value of that approach. Those at the “coal face”, to…
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Roll up, Roll up for Holiday
January 29, 2014
The law.. ..requires you to provide each employee with 5.6 weeks holiday a year but what happens when an employee works irregular hours and, especially, irregular weeks? The simple solution..…
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Beware the Model Carer
January 16, 2014
There is an uncanny relationship between protestations of carers convicted of abuse at Hillcroft Nursing Home and our experience of those few carers who have the wrong temperament to work…
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