When growing your business you will no doubt be looking for more investment and more sales, but are you getting the most out of your employees? Here are my top five tips for engaging with your team to ensure that they are firing on all cylinders.
This process shouldn’t be all about removing the employee as quickly and as lawfully as possible. A fair process will help you identify if performance is really the issue. Perhaps the employee is experiencing problems outside of work, or is poor management or an excessive workload to blame? I see a lot of employees who are not necessarily bad at their job, but they are simply struggling to keep pace with changes to the business. Once any issues have been discussed and addressed then there is every chance that the individual will be back on track and contributing fully to your profits.
As employment specialists we are often asked…. to quantify what an “injury to feelings” award might be worth if a claim is successful… but the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) recently gave some helpful guidance in its judgment in the case of Graham v Eddie Stobart.
This article deals with the 29 December 2024 judgment of the Employment Tribunal in Mr. P Hemmings v Mischon De Reya LLP, and focuses on Mr. Hemmings’ claim for constructive unfair dismissal. Although this is a first-instance judgment and it therefore does not bind future Tribunals to interpret…
This article provides a short summary of Bev Gleeson’s successful claim of indirect sex discrimination (she also succeeded in her unlawful deduction of wages claim) in respect of her employer’s decision to deny employees on a career break a one-off £1,500 payment (which was paid to all other…
Since the draft Employment Rights Bill 2024 was published in October, we have had various requests from employer clients asking us what they need to be doing to do to prepare for the proposed changes to employment law