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...
Succession planning
Succession planning is a tool used by proactive companies to identify and utilise future potential from within the existing workforce. Through the appraisal process, or discussions with employees an organisation can identify those with future pot...
Volunteers
Volunteers who work within your organisation are not employees or workers and therefore have limited protection under employment law. Volunteers are provided with protection and under Health and Safety legislation and discrimination as outlined i...
Induction
An induction plan should look to ensure the effective integration of employees into or across the organisation for the benefit of both parties. This allows for the smooth the introduction during the preliminary stages of employment, the new emplo...