Human Resources

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..…

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…

At first they seem an irritation. You’ve made the difficult decision to discipline or dismiss an employee and now you have to hear an appeal. It is as if the…

In a recent Seminar Mark Wright, of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) informed the audience  that the Commission is seeking to influence government on language. The EHRC would…

In order to demonstrate compliance with the performance standard of CQC, NHS funded providers should be able to show that they comply with the’ NHS Employment Checks Standards’. Check the…

I’ve often heard this from employees in disciplinary processes, as an obstacle to carrying out a legitimate request or as a defence for not doing so. Unsurprisingly it can bring…

Investigations by HMRC have revealed that some 2,400 care workers have been underpaid in relation to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and subsequent fines on employers have totalled over £110,000.…

We all want a living wage and many of us aspire to more. Yet an increasing amount of employment is at National Minimum Wage (NMW) levels. Furthermore, the fact that…