Podcast: Probation periods; costs in the employment tribunal

On this week's XpertHR Weekly: practical advice on the use and extension of probation periods in relation to new and transferred employees; and discussion of the Employment Appeal Tribunal decision in Nicolson Highlandwear Ltd v Nicolson, which dealt with what constitutes unreasonable behaviour on the part of an employee in the context of an application by an employer to recover legal costs from that employee. 

Presenter Jeya Thiruchelvam is joined by Ellie Brown, John Read and Jo Stubbs. Edited and produced by Jeya Thiruchelvam. 

Audio: XpertHR Weekly, 23 July 2010   Probation periods; costs in the employment tribunal

Articles discussed on this week's podcast: 

• Probation: Probation policy
• Costs: pursuing claim purely for declaration of unfair dismissal is unreasonable behaviour

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