Hot HR Update 22-26 August

Hello and welcome to this week's Hot HR weekly digest and blog. 

There have been some really fantastic discussions happening within the group over the last week. Thank you to all those that have contributed and are using the group, I hope you continue to find the group of use.

Here is a round up of this week's discussions and exciting news from within the group:

Ward Hadaway Speed Read:  
1. ECJ considers issue of retirement age
2. Conspiracy theories and belief discrimination
3. The relevance of the 'effective date of termination'?

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Discussions:
This week we have had lots of activity and discussion, here is a summary of the most popular (in no particular order):

1. Can anybody shed some light on how to approach a situation where a long  
    time employee has just gone missing (AWOL). We have made numerous  
    attemps to contact him. Could we terminate employment?
2. Zero Hour Contracts
3. I saw this discussion on another group and thought it could be answered in
    HotHR- "Does Human Resources represent the company or the employees?"
    What are your thoughts?

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Hot HR Content Members:
• Harmajinder Hayre Employment Lawyer from Ward Hadaway Solicitors
• Stephen Hart owner of Edenchanges training
• Andy Whittle from Genesys Training
• David Taylor from Data Protection Consultancy
• Mark Terry from Edenred Employee Benefits

Please use Hot HR as a forum to ask the content members any questions you might have in their fields of expertise, no matter how big or small the question, our experts can help!

Hot HR continues to endeavour to add to the portfolio of content members who can add value to the group and to Hot HR members and to compliment each other's skills and expertise. If you have any suggestions for the group please contact me.

Hot Spot:
This week we welcomed another exciting new writer for the Hot Spot - Alison Mulholland from nef. Alison wrote a great article on 'Being a HR manager doesn’t make me a better parent (but being a parent makes me a better HR manager)'

We now have 3 regular writers for the Hot Spot - Michael Rabone, HR Manager for The Seafood Restaurant group owned by Rick and Jill Stein, Tim Rawson HR Manager from Travel Jigsaw and Alison Mulholland from nef.

Thank you to Michael, Tim and Alison for their contributions. Please feel free to respond, ask any questions or if you would like join the exciting Hot Spot writers please contact Alex via Hot HR.