Automatically unfair dismissal occurs when the dismissal violates an employee’s statutory legal rights. In most cases, reasons for dismissal are consi...
Dismissal should only be used as a last resort. But when it's needed, employers must follow all appropriate steps. One of these steps is a qualifying...
Whether it’s depression, anxiety, stress, or something else, mental illness can put serious strain on workers. If the condition begins to impact an e...
When running a business, employees leaving is completely unavoidable. But when they do, you should use it as an opportunity to make improvements to yo...
Sometimes, employers may need to let people go from their business. When they do, they must give them any pay rights they're owed. This includes paym...
Reference
Sometimes, an employee may decide to leave their job for another position. To support their career move, they may ask for a job reference. Whilst the...
The purpose of obtaining references is quite simply, to put an added safeguard into the recruitment and selection process. It provides additional info...
For business owners, employees come and go all the time. However, you must manage the process for resignations correctly. For example, providing the c...
There can be a number of reasons why employees choose to resign from their position. Some of the most common examples include a better offer from a di...
It’s something we’ve all seen on TV shows and at the movies, the employee resigning immediately and waltzing off into the sunset. In the real world, i...
Many of your employee’s won’t work for you for their entire career. But at some point, a member of staff will retire. And so it’s important to know w...
Sometimes, an employer might not have enough work to give out. Laying off workers can help keep your business going during hard times. But there are ...
As a business owner, you want all your employees to leave your company on good terms. Unfortunately, this isn't always the case. Ex-employees can som...
As an employer, dealing with employee complaints is part of being a business owner. In your eyes, they may not seem a huge issue - but how you deal wi...
It’s a legal requirement for your business to have a grievance procedure. It explains the process an employee must follow to make a complaint about yo...
As an employer, you'll inevitably have to hire new staff. When this happens you need to have an agreement that clearly outlines the terms and conditio...
After all the hard work of the recruitment process, you have an ideal candidate and they receive their offer of employment. Once a letter returns with...
Your employees have employment contracts with your business. It acts as an agreement between parties. It documents the working conditions and require...
There are occasions when you may want to change the general duties or a role of an employee. So, how do you go about doing this? In our guide, we’ll e...
How much could a tribunal cost you? The below tribunal examples demonstrate just how much employers can lose through not following the relevant HR-re...