There's no surprise what the most popular HR question has been this month (note the restraint there in resisting the obvious "snow surprise" pun). Whether or not employers have to pay employees who can't get to work because of the snow tops the list of the most frequently accessed questions on XpertHR for January 2010.
HR professionals were also looking for other snow-related information such as minimum office temperatures and how to deal with lateness due to travel disruption.
Other popular questions covered the calculation of redundancy payments when an employee has recently changed to part-time hours, or is about to go on maternity leave.
- Is an employer required to pay employees who cannot make it into work because of severe weather conditions?
- Are employees on fixed-term contracts entitled to statutory notice of their dismissal?
- Is an employer required to pay employees who arrive late or do not arrive at all due to disruptions to public transport?
- Where an employee has recently changed from full-time to part-time hours how should his or her redundancy payment be calculated?
- If a pregnant employee is made redundant before commencing maternity leave can her employer pay her statutory maternity pay in one lump sum?
- Is there a minimum workplace temperature below which employees cannot be expected to work?
- Where an employer has accidentally overpaid an employee can it reclaim the overpayments?
- Is an employer under an obligation to seek employees' permission before placing their photographs on its intranet?
- If an employer's business is closed because of, for example, flooding, is it obliged to pay its employees?
- Which employees are eligible for the statutory right to request flexible working?
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