Weekly Digest 21st to 25th Feb 2011

Hello and welcome to the this week's Hot HR weekly digest! I hope you find it useful and informative.


This week's summary/round up of information includes:

• The week's Speed Read posted by Harmajinder Hayre from Ward Hadaway, the only employment law specialist within the Hot HR group
• Interesting Read/topical information posted in the group
• Top discussions from within the group

This week's interesting and useful Speed Read from Ward Hadaway focussed on:

1. Company fined £385,000 for death of it's employee
2. Time off for training: extension to small employer delayed
3. Apprentices - are they employees?
4. Employer sponsored immigration - attracting the 'brightest and biggest'
5. Draft regulations abolishing default retirement age

 

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Interesting Read - Posted by Mark Williams (the UK's only certified LinkedIn trainer) - What policy do you have regarding employees LinkedIn connections?

Top Discussion - "Are work suits on the way out?" seems to have sparked some interesting discussion and responses.  

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Hot HR Weekly Digest 14 Feb to 18 Feb 2011

Welcome to the this week's Hot HR weekly digest! I hope you find it useful and informative.


This week's summary/round up of information includes:

• The week's Speed Read posted by Harmajinder Hayre from Ward Hadaway, the only employment law specialist within the Hot HR group
• Interesting Read/topical information posted in the group
• Top discussions from within the group

This week's interesting and useful Speed Read from Ward Hadaway focussed on:

1. "Lazy, feckless.......and flatulent"
2. Female council workers entitled to productivity bonus and pay protection
3. Checks on those working with children to be reformed
4. Default retirement age

 

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Interesting Read -
"Yesterday I was asked an interesting question; a casino manager wanted to know if they can advertise for a particular 'type or look'... "
 

Top Discussion - Are work suits on the way out?

 

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Weekly Digest 7-11 Feb 2011

Welcome to the first Hot HR weekly digest! I hope you find it useful and informative.


Every week I will provide a summary/round up of:

• The week's Speed Read posted by Harmajinder Hayre from Ward Hadaway, the only employment law specialist within the Hot HR group
• Interesting Read/topical information posted in the group
• Top discussions from within the group

This week's Speed Read from Ward Hadaway focussed on:

1. Carry on Nurse!
2. Workers warned to down their pickets and pick up their tools
3. Employers can't know everything
4. Bribery Act delay
5. Statutory maternity pay may begin after mother has stopped work

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Interesting Read - are work suits on their way out?

Top Discussion - I've just held the first consultation process with employees to start the process of designing a PDR/appraisal system from scratch. Do you have any recommendations for this process?

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The reality of the proposal to extend unfair dismissal claim rights

My recent post/link on the LinkedIn Group 'Hot HR' on the government's plans for a radical shake-up of the tribunal system and the proposal to extend unfair dismissal claim rights to after 2 years' service has certainly sparked some interesting responses.

The general response seems to be very much that this would not be a good thing and the idea is without substance.

Comments include concerns about the extension to two years being that people may put in false discrimination claims instead of ordinary grievances because there is no time limit for these.  and staff with under two years' service will become very vulnerable to mistreatment at work.

Another person's feedback summarises many comments from another HR discussion board and provides some interesting stats and links.

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