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XpertHR has been gathering key HR metrics for over a decade. Here we discuss the trends over time in sickness absence rates, labour turnover and the ratio of HR practitioners to employees.
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XpertHR's Policies and documents tool has been enhanced with the addition of six new model letters covering the redeployment or dismissal of an employee who is disqualified from driving where this forms a part of his or her job duties.
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In East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust v Levy, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that an employee's letter of notice to her department did not amount to a resignation from the respondent's employment because the wording used was ambiguous.
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How competitive is your organisation's graduate starting salary for 2018/2019? New XpertHR data enables you to benchmark your organisation's graduate starting salary rates against those offered by competitors.
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With Brexit negotiations still ongoing, we are joined by Louise Haycock and Emma Kendrick, UK immigration solicitors at Fragomen, who discuss the considerations for HR and how to deal with a "no deal" scenario.
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Mental health first-aid instructor and management trainer, Peter Larkum, takes you through what you need to know about mental health first aid at work.
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Long-service awards can be an effective way to recognise an employee's contribution to the organisation over a sustained period. XpertHR's Benchmarking tool has full details of the long-service awards offered at 174 organisations, revealing wide variation in practice.
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In Francis-McGann v West Atlantic UK Ltd, the employment tribunal ordered a pilot to repay £4,725 in training costs after it emerged that he provided a fake reference using the name of a character from Star Wars.
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- Policies and documents
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) introduces the daunting new requirement on organisations to conduct a data protection impact assessment (DPIA) when they plan to carry out processing that poses a high risk to individuals' rights and freedoms. XpertHR provides a model DPIA, using the example of the proposed introduction of CCTV monitoring in a work location.
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In Saad v Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, the EAT held that the primary question, when deciding if an employee acted in bad faith, is whether or not the employee acted honestly in making the discrimination allegation, not the employee's ulterior purpose.
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XpertHR has added two example privacy notices for organisations to provide workers and contractors with information about how they process their personal data.
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We are conducting a survey on Christmas in the workplace, and would like to invite you to take part. The survey looks at Christmas resourcing arrangements, plans and budgets for Christmas celebrations, and how employers seek to ensure good conduct at festive events.
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In X v Y Ltd, the EAT held that an email containing legal advice on how to disguise a discriminatory dismissal as a redundancy is not protected by legal advice privilege and is admissible as evidence in a tribunal.
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In Dibble v Falzon and Falzon t/a The Anne Arms, the EAT found that there were fundamental flaws in a tribunal decision that a pub worker was fairly dismissed over CCTV footage of her taking money out of a bar till.
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XpertHR's headline measure of pay settlements has fallen for the first time in almost two years - but is this a blip or a sign that lower pay awards are on the way?
