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  • Date:
    10 January 2024
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Employment law changes 2024: Progress report for HR

    As we plunge into a new year, HR professionals could be forgiven for losing track of all the upcoming employment law changes and what they mean for their organisation. To assist HR with planning for 2024 and beyond, we round up the major legislative changes in the pipeline.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Redundancy: Failure to have meaningful consultation made dismissal unfair

    In De Bank Haycocks v ADP RPO UK Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT), overturned the tribunal's decision and held that the employee's dismissal for redundancy was unfair because there was an absence of meaningful consultation at the formative stage of the redundancy process.

  • Type:
    How to

    How to monitor labour turnover

    Revised and improved throughout, to focus on practical guidance for HR.

  • Type:
    How to

    How to deal with a heat-of-the-moment resignation

    Updated to reflect the EAT's decision in Omar v Epping Forest District Citizens Advice, which confirmed that the relevant question for heat-of-the-moment resignations is whether the employee genuinely intended to resign.

  • Date:
    2 November 2023
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Webinar: Handling HR nightmares

    We look at workplace scenarios that can strike fear into the heart of the most experienced HR professionals, including issues relating to: discipline and grievances; redundancy; and new legislation.

  • Date:
    31 October 2023
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    Labour turnover rates: XpertHR survey 2023

    XpertHR presents the latest data on voluntary resignation and total labour turnover and explores how these rates compare by industry and job level.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Unfair dismissal: Work-related app on personal phone removed home and work life separation

    In Alsnih v Al Quds Al-Arabi Publishing & Advertising, an employment tribunal held that the dismissal of an employee for refusing to use a work-related app on her personal phone was procedurally and substantively unfair.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Decision-maker not conducting disciplinary meeting did not make dismissal unfair

    In Charalambous v National Bank of Greece, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that the employee's dismissal was fair even though the manager who made the decision to dismiss had not attended the disciplinary hearings.

  • Type:
    Editor's choice

    Quick reference: The complete list

    Our quick references provide key employment law facts on a wide range of topics.

  • Date:
    27 June 2023
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: Unfair dismissal claims - recent tribunal cases

    It is critical for employers to follow a fair procedure before dismissing an employee. Here, Fiona Cuming, senior employment law editor at XpertHR, discusses a series of recent employment tribunal decisions where unfair dismissal claims proved successful because of procedural mistakes made by the employer during the disciplinary process.