Managing employees/workers
Updated to include dates for the home nations' matches for the football European Championships in summer 2024.
Updated to reflect that irregular hours and part-year workers with holiday years starting on or after 1 April 2024 can carry over all of their holiday entitlement if they have not used it because of sickness absence.
With a raft of employment law changes taking effect in April 2024, we provide a final reminder for HR professionals of what their organisation needs to do to comply with the new and amended employment laws. This April, the challenges for HR include: the introduction of carer's leave; reforms to the right to request flexible working; and updated rules on timing and notice to take paternity leave.
Updated with additional information on the calculation of holiday entitlement and holiday pay.
Updated to recommend including copies of Home Office correspondence and change of circumstances requests in the sponsor management file.
As a result of how the Easter bank holidays fall in 2024 and 2025, some employers will breach their employees' annual leave rights unless they furnish them with an extra day's annual leave.
A model letter to invite an employee to a meeting to discuss their request for flexible working submitted on or after 6 April 2024.
A model letter to inform an employee that their flexible working request is invalid because they have already submitted two requests in the previous 12 months or they have another "live" flexible working request that is still being processed.
A model letter to respond to an employee who has requested to amend a request for flexible working submitted on or after 6 April 2024.
A model letter to inform an employee who has submitted a request for flexible working on or after 6 April 2024 that the request is invalid and the reasons why it is invalid, and to ask them to resubmit the request.
HR and legal information and guidance relating to managing employees/workers.