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• Essential HR metrics for 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  With data skills increasingly critical for success in the HR profession, new analysis from XpertHR reveals three priority areas for HR metrics data activities in 2020.

• Managing behaviour at work events

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  Editor's choice

  We round up our resources that will help employers avoid problems at a work-related event, including at the Christmas or end-of-year work party.

• Time off over Christmas and New Year

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  Editor's choice

  We round up our resources that will help employers manage requests for time off during the festive season, when business needs may range from requiring a certain level of cover to shutting down operations.

• Financial services: SMR and CR extended to all FCA-authorised firms

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  Editor's choice

  We have updated our financial services content to reflect that the Senior Managers and Certification Regimes replaced the Approved Persons Regime for all FCA solo-regulated firms on 9 December 2019.

• Webinar: LGBT-inclusive workplace - practical strategies from Stonewall

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  Audio and video

  In this webinar, Sanjay Sood-Smith, executive director at Stonewall, shares his experience and top tips for embracing and embedding an LGBT-inclusive workplace.

• Cycle couriers protected by TUPE, rules employment tribunal

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  Law reports

  In Dewhurst and others v Revisecatch Ltd t/a Ecourier and another, an employment tribunal controversially held that TUPE protection extends beyond employees to cover workers.

• IR35: Three things public-sector HR needs to know about the April 2020 reforms

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  Legal guidance

  HR professionals in public authorities may think that the extension of IR35 reforms to the private sector in April 2020 will not affect them. However, public-sector bodies need to be aware of some proposed changes to the rules.

• The 10 most important employment law cases in 2019

  Type:

  Legal guidance

  As always, HR professionals have had their fair share of employment law cases to keep track of in 2019. We count down the 10 most important judgments of the year that every employer should know about.

• Podcast: Common conundrums when deciding disciplinary sanctions

  Type:

  Audio and video

  Should the same punishment be handed down to everyone when there are multiple culprits? Can an expired warning be taken into account? Can a disciplinary sanction be increased on appeal? We discuss some common dilemmas for employers when deciding on disciplinary penalties.

• Policy on processing special category personal data and criminal records data

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to take account of the ICO's template "appropriate policy document", which employers must have in place when processing special category personal data and criminal records data.

• Take part in our reward priorities survey

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  To find out what organisations are prioritising in the reward field over the next year, please complete XpertHR's survey on reward planning for 2020.

• Coaching

  Type:

  Good practice manual

  Good practice guidance discussing the use of coaching in workplace settings to raise employees' awareness of different perspectives and increase their ability to take responsibility for their own development.

• Whistleblowing dismissal claims: Supreme Court rules on knowledge of decision-maker

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  Law reports

  In Royal Mail Group Ltd v Jhuti, the Supreme Court held that, where a dismissal for making protected disclosures is hidden behind an invented reason that is adopted by the decision-maker, the reason for the dismissal is the hidden reason rather than the invented one.

• Police sector: Shift and night working

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  We look at how shift and night working operates in the police sector and some of the initiatives aimed at reducing the potential negative impact of such working patterns.

• Dismissal for involvement with HR website violated human rights

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Herbai v Hungary, the European Court of Human Rights held that a worker's right to freedom of expression was violated when the employer dismissed him due to his involvement with a website devoted to HR issues.