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Archive for General
Categories : General
Managing Long Covid
Summary
Covid 19 can cause symptoms lasting weeks or months for some people. This is known as long Covid or post Covid 19 syndrome.
This will have implications for employers and each case will need to be treated on its merits. No two people will have the same experience of Covid and the symptoms of long Covid are wide ranging so taking a one size fits all approach to managing long Covid will not work.
Some people will make a full recovery within a few weeks or months but for some it will take longer.
Employers will have to engage with each sufferer in a sympathetic manner in order to establish the nature of the problem and then put into place a support plan which may include occupational health or GP referrals, phased returns, reduced hours, home working or other reasonable adjustments.
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A recent decision by the Employment Appeal Tribunal has implications for employers who do not include regular overtime in holiday pay.
Many employers in the UK pay holiday pay at the basic rate of pay for an employee’s normal weekly working hours. Overtime payments are not included. Read More →
Works Christmas parties are a great way to let your hair down and enjoy a few drinks with colleagues. Just be careful though that you don’t do something which you may later regret.
A works party is still a work function and inappropriate behaviour could get you into trouble. Read More →
by Rob Grinter, Mark David HR Ltd
I want to talk about a subject that many people find difficult to deal with: bereavement leave and support.
Why is it that we have legislation setting out an employee’s entitlement to paid leave for the happy events in life such as maternity, paternity and adoption but nothing for the stressful time when bereavement leave is needed. Read More →
Categories : Advice And Policies, General
By Rob Grinter, Mark David HR Ltd
The Employment Appeal Tribunal is considering a number of important cases concerning the calculation of an employee’s holiday pay which will have a major impact on UK employers. Read More →
Categories : General
by Rob Grinter, Mark David HR Ltd
There has been much media hype about the problems that extending the right to request flexible working will cause for employers. I don’t believe that this will be the case for most employers who have become accustomed to such requests from employees under previous legislation.
When the right to request flexible work was extended on 1st July 2014 some commentators predicted that there would be a deluge of applications from employees and employers would have little scope to refuse them without facing appeals and/or litigation. Read More →
We are in a recession aren’t we?
Oh yes we really are. For a minute I thought the last six years had just been a bad dream.
Anyway back in the real world it has been hard enough for many employers to make ends meet during one of the longest economic recessions on record without the government adding more employment legislation.
So what does this supposedly business friendly government do? Read More →
Categories : General
My previous blog on Auto enrolment seems to have hit a nerve with employers and employees alike.
Some employers have expressed ignorance of, or at best a vague understanding of, what the changes will mean for their business or their employees. In one local company I visited none of the workforce knew anything at all about Auto Enrolment. This is worrying to me as a HR person as employers face quite strict financial penalties if they miss their date for setting up a pension scheme. Read More →
Categories : Advice And Policies, General
Following an independent review of sickness absence in 2011 the Government has decided to abolish the employers rebate on payments of statutory sick pay (Percentage Threshold Scheme) from the end of the 2013/14 tax year.
This rebate is very welcome by many small employers who often have quite low National Insurance costs. Unfortunately from now on the total cost of SSP will fall on the employer. However, employers will be able to reclaim 2014 SSP payments up to the end of the 2015/2016 tax year. Read More →
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