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What is the cost of stress to your business?
- Categories: Your business, Employment for your business
- Posted: Wednesday 20th February 2013
Stress can be a big problem for employers. A survey conducted in 2011 showed that 40% of all work-related illness that year was stress-related, and that a staggering 131 million days were lost due to...
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Dates for employers’ diaries: Spring 2013
- Categories: Your business, Employment for your business
- Posted: Thursday 17th January 2013
Key changes are afoot for employers this Spring. Sophie Pelham has identified the big ones to make sure you’ve got all the important dates in your diary… March Discrimination questionnaires...
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Tis the season to be temporary!!!
- Categories: Employment, Employment for your business
- Posted: Tuesday 4th December 2012
Our employment specialist Sophie Nettleton guides you through the Christmas period of casual staffing Status of casual workers The main issue to be aware of with casual workers that you take on directly over...
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Shares for employee rights?
- Categories: Your business, Corporate & Commercial, Employment, Employment for your business
- Posted: Tuesday 13th November 2012
Proposals for employees to give up some employment rights in exchange for shares have been put forward by the Government - this will give employees the option of becoming ‘employee owners’....
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Full maternity leave for fathers
- Categories: Your business, Employment, Employment for your business
- Posted: Tuesday 13th November 2012
Employment law specialist, Sophie Pelham, was at today’s press conference by Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, when he announced that parents will be able to share leave after a child’s birth in...
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Morrisons and Hardwicke team up for mock tribunal...
- Categories: Your business, Employment for your business
- Posted: Monday 8th October 2012
The Morrisons employment team joined up with Hardwicke Chambers to run a highly successful mock Employment Tribunal event in the Court Room at the Guildhall,Guildford on 04 October. It was a great event and...
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How employers are dealing with the abolishment of...
- Categories: Your business, Employment for your business
- Posted: Friday 21st September 2012
In the first of a series of articles on current areas of concern to business clients, Joanne Kavanagh reviews the repeal of the default retirement age. It is no longer lawful to retire an employee because...
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5 Easy Steps To Losing An Employment Tribunal
- Categories: Your business, Employment for your business
- Posted: Friday 21st September 2012
Sophie Pelham sets out some sure-fire ways for employers to end up in the Employment Tribunal. Essential reading for those not wishing to end up in the Respondents' waiting room! 1. Delay Employers that have...
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Pension auto-enrolment: is your business ready?
- Categories: Your business, Employment for your business
- Posted: Friday 21st September 2012
From the 1 October 2012 employers with 120,000 workers or more will be required to enrol eligible employees into a pension scheme, explains Sophie Nettleton. The dates by which smaller employers are required...
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Is your organisation ready for the journey to gold...
- Categories: Employment for your business
- Posted: Thursday 7th June 2012
Sophie Pelham in our employment team addresses business concerns surrounding travel disruption during the Olympics. Lateness or absence due to travel disruption may occur during the Olympics. Employees may...
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