Young Workers
Young workers are those who are above normal school leaving age but under the age of 18. Young workers are also provided with additional rest breaks, enhancing what the Working Time Directive allows: Young workers breaks are as follows: A res...
Performance management
Capability refers to an employee's skills, ability, aptitude and knowledge in relation to the job that they employed to do. Lack of capability will in most cases lead to unsatisfactory job performance, which is likely to cause problems both for th...
Agency workers
Agency Workers are not employees of your Company and as such will not have the rights to claim unfair dismissal, redundancy pay or maternity leave, or benefits such as occupational sick pay, company pension schemes or bonus payments based on compa...
Investigations
The key purpose of an investigation is to discover all the relevant facts and information in a fair, reasonable and objective manner. If a manager is confronted with a situation that needs to be actioned, but fails to carry out a proper investiga...
Garden leave
Garden Leave can be used by employers when an employee has tendered their resignation at work and the employer wants to remove them from the work place. An employer may choose to do this to protect company information or sales data when an employ...
Whistleblowing
Whistleblowing allows for employees to report wrongdoings that have been identified in their place of work and that affect the public interest. Initially employees should look to report the issue to their employer and try to get things resolved.&...