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  • Type:
    Interactive flowcharts

    Resignation: Deal with an employee's resignation

    Use this resignation flowchart to deal with an employee's resignation, bearing in mind the employee's contractual obligations regarding matters such as notice, restrictive covenants and the return of company property.

  • Date:
    15 March 2021
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Unfair dismissal: Employee's covert recording was not gross misconduct

    In Northbay Pelagic Ltd v Anderson, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the employer's decision to dismiss an employee for installing a surveillance camera at work was unfair.

  • Date:
    9 March 2021
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    April 2021 employment law changes: Five things for HR to do

    While continuing to deal with the impact of coronavirus, HR professionals must ensure that their organisation complies with the usual raft of April employment law changes. In April 2021, these changes include the extension of IR35 reforms to the private sector, a tweak to the national minimum wage age bands, and increases to statutory redundancy pay and statutory maternity pay.

  • Type:
    Letters and forms

    Form setting out redundancy payment calculation

    A model form to provide details of how a redundancy payment has been calculated.

  • Type:
    Policies and procedures

    Enhanced redundancy payments policy

    A model policy to offer employees an enhanced redundancy payment.

  • Type:
    Employment law guide

    Lay-off and short-time working

    The law on lay-off and short-time working, including the contractual right to lay off or put on short-time working, obtaining express consent where there is no contractual right, the operation of the contract during lay-off, the right to obtain a redundancy payment, and information on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and furloughing employees.

  • Date:
    25 February 2021
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Coronavirus: Dismissal for refusing to wear face mask was fair

    In Kubilius v Kent Foods Ltd, an employment tribunal held that the delivery driver was fairly dismissed when he refused to wear a face mask at a client site.

  • Date:
    19 February 2021
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Coronavirus: Constructive dismissal after remote working request denied

    In An Operations Coordinator v A Facilities Management Service Provider, the Workplace Relations Commission in Ireland found that a worker was constructively dismissed when she resigned after she raised concerns about safe working and her employer rejected her request to work remotely during the coronavirus pandemic.

  • Date:
    18 February 2021
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Constructive dismissal: Manager's practical joke breached contract

    In Hurley v East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, an employment tribunal held that the employee had been unfairly constructively dismissed and that the line manager's practical joke was, of itself, sufficient to amount to a fundamental breach of contract.

  • Type:
    Policies and procedures

    Checklist for having initial settlement discussion during performance improvement procedure

    A model checklist to use when holding an initial settlement discussion with an employee who is subject to a performance improvement procedure, or has reached the stage when a performance improvement procedure is about to be invoked.