Agency Workers Regulations 2010 The Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) 2010 came into force on 1st October 2011 The regulations give agency workers the entitlement to the same or no less favourable treatment than comparable permanent employees. This is with respect to basic employment and working conditions after they complete a qualifying period of 12 [...]
Beware of careless comments about ex-employees Employers need to take care in making any comments or sending communications about an employee, whether they are currently employed or have left the organisation. This was highlighted earlier this year when the High Court handed down judgement in the case of McKie v Swindon College. The case [...]
Home Working Portable IT equipment and the widespread availability of broadband internet mean it’s easier than ever to allow working from home in your company. And while home working can certainly bring benefits to your business, you should think carefully before introducing it. Working from home can bring a [...]
Working Without the Default Retirement Age Following on from last week’s newsletter this is the third newsletter we will be sending you to bring you details of this impending change in law and guidelines on how your Company can manage these changes. Recruitment and older workers Recruiting new [...]
Should I let my employees use Facebook at work? Worker sacked for posting on Facebook about her ‘totally boring’ job A young teenager was working as an office administrator; her routine job was filing, stapling and hole-punching. Like many teenagers, she was underwhelmed by the menial tasks she was given in her new job. [...]