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- Date:
- 19 October 2018
- Type:
- Commentary and analysis
Requirements for public sector employers to ensure a certain percentage of their workforce is apprentices may pose some organisational challenges, but Simon Rouse from PeoplePlus explains how apprenticeships can also help public sector organisations become more productive and better reflect their communities.
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- Date:
- 27 September 2018
- Type:
- Legal guidance
We examine the unique status of police officers and the implications of that status. We also look at how the terms and conditions of police officers are both determined and changed.
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- Date:
- 22 September 2018
- Type:
- Commentary and analysis
We explore the unusual nature of the police service and the challenges that this creates for HR.
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- Date:
- 22 September 2018
- Type:
- Commentary and analysis
We examine the status of police staff who, unlike police officers, are subject to normal employment legislation. We also look at the status of special constables and volunteers.
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- Date:
- 22 September 2018
- Type:
- Commentary and analysis
We explore the tripartite arrangement on which the governance of the police service in England and Wales is based. We also look beyond the bodies that are party to the tripartite arrangement to a number of other important organisations that impact on HR in the police service.
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- Date:
- 19 September 2018
- Type:
- Law reports
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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- Date:
- 5 September 2018
- Type:
- Legal guidance
This article looks at the pay structure for local authority employees, set out in the National Agreement on Pay and Conditions of Service (the Green Book).
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- Date:
- 4 September 2018
- Type:
- Legal guidance
This article looks at the framework for making compensation payments on redundancy and local authority redundancy policies in general. It also looks at various Government proposals for reforms to public-sector exit payments.
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- Date:
- 30 August 2018
- Type:
- Law reports
In Saad v Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (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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- Date:
- 20 August 2018
- Type:
- Legal guidance
This article looks at local authority discipline and dismissal procedures for senior officers, and the involvement of councillors in other disciplinary action.
