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Recent Blog Posts By Keith Lowther

A Brief Guide to Protected Disclosures

Protected Disclosures encourage and enable employees to raise concerns within their workplace rather than overlooking a problem. In fact, statistics s... Read More

31 July 2017 By Keith Lowther

What Constitutes an Acceptable Sickness Certificate?

Medical certificates are required to help manage absenteeism and to provide employers with information to enable reasonable accommodation – but what d... Read More

06 July 2017 By Keith Lowther

Why is Impartiality So Important in Formal Proceedings?

Any formal proceedings in the workplace should be in line with the policy as stated in the Employee Handbook. Incidents and issues will inevitably ari... Read More

30 June 2017 By Keith Lowther

Dismissing Family Members

While there can be benefits to having family members as employees, employers have to consider the potential effects of dismissing them too – here’s a ... Read More

30 June 2017 By Keith Lowther

What is Structured Training?

We give you the lowdown on the criteria for structured training and how to calculate the ‘trainee rate’ of pay accordingly... Structured training is a... Read More

30 June 2017 By Keith Lowther

What is AWOL in Advance and How Can Employers Deal With It?

A common query that we receive on our advice line is what do in a situation where an employee’s annual leave is declined but they take it anyway – or ... Read More

27 June 2017 By Keith Lowther

Tackling Employee Health Issues

As an employer, it’s only natural that you’ll notice if something seems amiss with one of your staff – but what happens if you raise concerns but they... Read More

27 June 2017 By Keith Lowther

Health & Safety Essentials: Workplace Stress

An employee will often be confronted by a number of stress factors. An organisation’s culture can be the key to determining the factors related to str... Read More

02 June 2017 By Keith Lowther

Young Employees in Family Employment

Have you ever wondered whether or not it’s worthwhile hiring young family members? This employment approach seems to be most prominent in the agricult... Read More

02 June 2017 By Keith Lowther

Extending a Fixed-Term Contract or Dismissing an Employee on Maternity Leave

As an employer, you may at some point face the question of what to do with an employee who is on a fixed term contract, when her contract expires duri... Read More

02 June 2017 By Keith Lowther

Layoffs, Short Time and Reduced Working Weeks

Confused about the implications of temporary layoffs, short time, reduced working hours and non-contractual policies? Here’s a brief explanation of ea... Read More

02 June 2017 By Keith Lowther

Accrual of Public Holidays While on Different Types of Leave

Unsure how to handle situations where an employee’s leave falls on a public holiday? What about different types of employment? Here’s our handy guide ... Read More

02 June 2017 By Keith Lowther

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