Managing employees/workers

New and updated

• Christmas party choking incident leads to unfair dismissal ruling

  Date:

  7 December 2018

  Type:

  News

  The manager of a club in Cardiff won an employment tribunal ruling for unfair dismissal after senior staff failed to properly investigate her collapse at a Christmas party in December last year.

• One in four younger employees goes into work feeling drunk

  Date:

  7 December 2018

  Type:

  News

  One in four workers between the ages of 18 and 34 has gone to work still feeling drunk after the night before - and half of these employees have driven.

• What impact will Brexit have on EU nationals currently working in the UK?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Part-time workers

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on British Airways plc v Pinaud, in which the Court of Appeal held that a part-time employee had been subjected to less favourable treatment in relation to days of availability to work.

• High Court upholds Deliveroo self-employment and collective bargaining ruling

  Date:

  6 December 2018

  Type:

  News

  The High Court has held that Deliveroo riders are self-employed and cannot form a collective bargaining unit.

• Coming soon to XpertHR

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  Updated to include information on the forthcoming Podcast: Roundtable discussion – legislative developments of 2018/2019

• Agency workers earn £400 a year less than directly employed colleagues

  Date:

  4 December 2018

  Type:

  News

  Agency workers are subject to a "pay penalty" of 16p an hour if they are in the same job for three months or more, according to research by the Resolution Foundation.

• Visa applications for non-EU nationals: What HR needs to know

  Date:

  3 December 2018

  Type:

  Legal guidance

  As HR professionals try to grapple with the settled status pilot scheme for EU permanent residence applications, there is now also the new UK Visa and Citizenship Application Service for non-EU employees. Jonathan Beech from Migrate UK explains the challenges.

• Podcast: Flexible working policies and practice at PwC

  Date:

  30 November 2018

  Type:

  Audio and video

  Charlotte Billot-Taylor, leader - employee relations, policy & advice at PwC, discusses her organisation's approach to flexible working and transparency around family-friendly policies.

• Government must fulfil promises to keep carers in work

  Date:

  29 November 2018

  Type:

  News

  The government has been urged to act on the Conservative Party's 2017 pledge to introduce specific employment rights for working carers, such as statutory leave, to help keep them in the workplace.