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The Implications of Social Media
Whether you like it or not, and however you use it, social media has implications for your business. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and increasingly Instagram and WhatsApp are now central to how we communicate with our colleagues, staff, our clients, customers and how we do our marketing, lead generation and much besides. This means enormous opportunities,…
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Annual Leave while on Maternity Leave
A client came to me recently regarding an employee who was due to go on maternity leave. She had been accruing holiday for the first 3 months of the year and had taken all the holiday she had accrued to date. What she now wanted to do was take all the holiday she WOULD accrue…
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DOHR plays a key role in project to combat Sexual Harassment in the workplace
“All organisations can achieve a workplace which is free from sexual harassment” DOHR are now able to announce a partnership with Jewish Women’s Aid to deliver a comprehensive Sexual Harassment Awareness and Management in the Workplace programme. As an HR practice, we have been advising businesses on the need to actively manage and take a…
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Handling a Flexible Working Request
The legal bit Most employees with more than 26 weeks service have the legal right to request flexible working. However, they can only make one request in any rolling 12-month period. It is best practice for a business to have a flexible working policy and a flexible working application form. Employers legally have three months…
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What is flexible working?
The term ‘flexible working’ means lots of different things depending on who you are speaking to. To some it is the ability to work part-time, to others the ability to work from home and to others the ability to work shifts or on a zero hours basis. The right to request flexible working has been…
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Illegal Aliens
When I recruit a new employee what ‘right to work’ documents do I need to check, when do I need to check them and who can do this? An employer is required to carry out checks on all prospective new employees before they start work and this would include all British nationals that you intend…
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Company Car Issues
Once you have taken the decision to provide an employee with a company car, there are several things you need to think about which then need to be documented and communicated to the car driver. This is often done in their contract of employment and sometimes in a company car policy, either in an employee…
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Pay Increases All Round?
The National Minimum Wage, known as the National Living Wage for over 25s, is probably one of the most significant changes in Employment Law of the past few decades. For many it was a huge step forward for workers’ rights in the UK and one of the main achievements of Blair’s government. It has not…
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May Day 2020
The Background Due to the 75th anniversary of VE day in 2020, the Government have announced a nationwide change to Bank Holidays next year. May Day is usually the first Monday in May, but in 2020, to coincide with National VE Day commemorations, the Bank Holiday is being moved to Friday 8th May. The Implications…
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Late to Work?
Does age or gender determine what time employees arrive at work? I was invited on air on Tuesday morning to discuss lateness at work with Jonathan Vernon Smith (JVS) of BBC Three Counties Radio. You can listen to the interview here. His topics of discussion are always prompted by reports or items in the news…
