Busting or busted: toilet break rules
Busting or busted: toilet break rules I came across an interesting case the other day involving a call centre employee who contacted their MP [...]
June 2017
November 2016
The Mechanics of Fixed Term Contracts
The Mechanics of Fixed Term Contracts You’ve got a gap to fill because one of your employees is going to be absent for a [...]
September 2016
Self Employment: The Deliveroo Problem
Engaging workers on a self-employed/self employment basis has historically been a plausible way of avoiding employment law obligations. Self-employed people have very few rights; national minimum wage, for example, does [...]
November 2015
Dealing with staff who are persistently late
There can be potential time and cost implications for employers where staff are persistently late. These implications can arise as a result of employees missing deadlines and/or overtime having [...]
September 2015
Travel time for workers constitutes working time
Travel time for workers constitutes working time The news broke on 10th September 2015 that a landmark ruling had emerged from the Court of Justice of the European Union [...]
June 2015
What breaks are your staff entitled to?
Breaks can be split into the following 3 categories:- Rest breaks Daily rest period Weekly rest period Please consider this a fact sheet of the rest periods that workers [...]
November 2014
Solution to … agile working
Issue: The Agile Future Forum (AFF) held their first event this week, during which its members – including some of the UK’s biggest employers – urged British companies to adopt [...]
October 2014
Working longer hours
Clashes have erupted over tfl’s plan to run a 24-hour Tube service at weekends from the 12th September 2015, with the RMT reacting angrily at how the plan will [...]