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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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The Crucial Importance of Appeals
January 9, 2014
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…
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Do you speak English ?
January 2, 2014
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…
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GP practices are not always doing the necessary employment checks – CQC
December 23, 2013
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…
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“ You are breaching my Human Rights ”
December 16, 2013
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…
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