Part time workers – the legal background

Flexibility in working practices and working hours has increased, particularly very recently with many employers being perhaps forced into accepting reduced hours from workers unable to work full time as a result of Coronavirus. It’s perhaps a good opportunity therefore to consider what the legal

Calculating redundancy pay and notice pay for furloughed employees

The Government has brought in new legislation about how the definition of a ‘week’s pay’ must change for employees who are, or have been, on furlough. This involves important changes for some employers so it’s worth understanding exactly what the new requirements are. Why is

Job Retention Bonus – who can claim?

A few weeks ago the Chancellor announced a Job Retention Bonus to incentivise employers who keep furloughed employees until the end of January next year. We now have a bit more detail about the scheme, so here are some key facts. Which employers can access

Communication and wellbeing for homeworkers

Putting in place an excellent framework for communication with homeworkers is perhaps the most important thing you can do to ensure a homeworking arrangement is successful. It will help you manage performance, keep them engaged, ensure they feel included, improve their productivity and happiness levels

Security and Data Protection for homeworkers

If you have an employee who is going to be working from home, or would like to do so, something you must give careful consideration to is data security. When someone is working in the office, they are in a contained environment and are working

Health and safety for homeworkers

If you’ve got employees working from home on a temporary or permanent basis, a key thing to think about is their health and safety. It’s easily overlooked – of course an employee is in their home all the time and managing their health and safety

Managing performance for homeworkers

  If you have employees working from home, managing their performance effectively can be very different from doing it in the office. You can’t keep a subtle eye on what they’re doing and ‘catch’ them either doing it well or needing a bit of a

After redundancies – things to consider

Once you’ve gone through a fair and lawful redundancy process there will be a number of other things you need to do. Notice You will need to formally confirm the outcome and give the redundant employees the correct notice period. This will either be the

Looking for alternative employment during redundancy

To demonstrate that a redundancy was fair and lawful it’s important to be able to show that you have tried to avoid it. A key part of this is showing that you have taken reasonable steps to find alternative employment for employees at risk. You

Redundancy decisions – choosing who is affected and selection criteria

In many cases redundancy will involve a decision being made about which employees to make redundant and which to keep. Perhaps you are simply reducing the numbers in a certain role, or have changed the roles and need to decide which employees fill the new