Hot HR update 23-27 July

Hello and welcome to this week's Hot HR update and activity from the group.

This week's Speed Read contribution from Ward Hadaway raised the following employment law points:

- Breakdown of trust and some other substantial reason dismissals
- Importance of employer identity
- Underhill Review of Employment Tribunal Rules

To read more click here

Top Spots

- Employee Survey's - Has anyone recently carried out an Employee Survey? how beneficial did you find this? How did you structure the survey and what questions did you ask? To join in this discussion click here


Top Info

- According to this article a sick note culture could be set to “engulf UK businesses” during the Olympics

-  Apparently more than half of employees prepared to take confidential business information when they change jobs

- Useful update on holiday pay and accrual in respect of employees off on long term sick

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EVENTS:

Apprenticeships: The Voice of Business
This conference is about how we continue to grow apprenticeships in England. This conference is for businesses and training providers to come together to ensure that apprenticeships in England grow by working together in partnership.

Click here to view more about this event

HR JOBS:

Hot HR now has a Hot HR job blog specifically for HR professionals

To view HR jobs click here

JOIN US: Hot HR welcomes new contributors and partnerships, if you would like to discuss this further, please contact Alex via Hot HR.

Hot HR Blog

What's happening in Hot HR this week

Welcome to all new members - we now have over 1,440 members and the group is really warming up with some great discussions and activity.

SPEED READ FROM WARD HADAWAY:
* Determining holiday pay for those working atypical hours 
* Prospect of success in reasonable adjustment case
* A fair redundancy procedure can involve a pool of only one

In the case of reasonbale adjusment this is particulary relevant for employers as the EAT's judgment puts forward the suggestion that if a disabled person has not told a prospective employer that they require reasonable adjustments to be made, then such a claim will have no reasonable prospect of success.

To read the full article please use this link: Ward Hadaway Speed Read

DISCUSSIONS: Lots of great discussions this week, here's a snap shot:

* A client asked me a interesting question in a meeting yesterday I thought I would share it and get the groups thoughts....    
               
* Does anyone else have major trauma in Annual Leave allocation for p/t employees?                   

Focus on: Social Media to Recruit:
* Have you used social media to recruit? Any success stories / tips your happy to share?     

 * HR directors believe social media is ineffective for recruitment, survey finds             

To share your experiences join here

EVENTS:
Hot HR and Ward Hadaway are pleased to announce two free Employment Law updates held at the Ward Hadaway offices in Leeds. These will be held on 18th and 19th April. Please click here for more information.

The very popular 'Social Media & Recruitment - The Right Way' seminar, held in association with Hot HR, is being running in Birmingham on 29th March. For more information or to register please click here

UPDATES:
Please see the blog for the new HR events schedule for: a summary for busy HR people.


HR JOBS: Please look in the job section for current HR roles

JOIN US: Hot HR welcomes new contributors and partnerships, if you would like to discuss this further, please contact Alex via Hot HR.

Please see the Hot HR blog for other articles and updates. Also follow Hot HR on Twitter @Hot_HR. Not already a member, click here to join Hot HR.

We look forward to seeing you in Hot HR!

Hot HR Update 14-18 November

Hello and welcome to this week's Hot HR update.

The group is welcoming new members daily and there is some great discussions happening. If you aren't a member of Hot HR already click here to join  Hot HR .

Here's a round of what happened in the group this week:

Ward Hadaway Speed Read - W/C 14th November
1. Breach of contract: Failure to follow procedure
2. Inconsistent treatment of employees
3. Payment for holidays: A sick employee's obligation to make a request

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Discussions:
1. I am setting up a Training Academy to support the growth of our people to include exam support and coaching opportunities. Does anyone have any guidelines or materials in this area?    
2. With toolkits, online help and the call centre approach are HR Advisors more like administrators?     
                      
Please share your thoughts and experiences by joining Hot HR.

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
. Jenny Cooper from Key Steps Coaching for Stress Management

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 HR Hot Spot:
We have 4 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, Caroline Hackney from Cape and Alison Mulholland from nef.

Thank you to Michael, Tim, Caroline and Alison for their contributions.

Please support their articles and dedcation to the group and feel free to respond, ask any questions.

Hot HR is looking for additional Hot Spot writers and contributers and content partners, if you are interested please contact Alex via Hot HR.

Please see our blog for other articles and updates:

http://hothr.blogspot.com/2011/11/hr-services-and-crb-checking.html

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Have a great weekend.
Alex

Hot HR Update 15-19 August

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

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

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

To find out more connect to Hot HR

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

1. Advice Needed - Constructive Dismissal?
2. Hi Hot HR - asking for views on how much detail you would go into with regard to the reasoning behind a rejection of an appeal against dismissal in the decision letter

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

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 Tim Rawson, HR Manager for Travel Jigsaw joined the Hot Spot writers for Hot HR. Tim wrote an interesting article on 'Can we stop trying to 'define' HR?'

We now have 2 regular writers for the Hot Spot - Michael Rabone, HR Manager for The Seafood Restaurant group owned by Rick and Jill Stein  and Tim Rawson HR Manager from Travel Jigsaw, with a third contributor going live next week!

If you would like join the exciting Hot Spot writers please contact me via Hot HR.

Hot HR weekly digest 23 - 27 May

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

                                                   

Excellent news for the group this week; we reached the 500 members mark and now have over 520 members. So a warm welcome to all new members.   Thank you also to all those that are contributing to the group. This is what makes Hot HR such a rich, diverse and useful networking and communication tool. 

As usual, the format of this blog and Weekly Digest takes the form 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
• Question Time - most popular question or discussion from within the group

This Weeks Employment Law Speed Read From Ward Hadaway : 23/05/2011

1. Plans for a new system of flexible parental leave announced
2. Are you liable for legally seeking to retire an employee?

Question Time  - The key questions and discussions of interest started in the last week are:

1. Parental leave reforms - the Government has proposed changes to maternity and paternity     leave, holiday carry overs and equal pay audits. What do you think to some of the proposed reforms? Will they work? Are they too bold? Will it mean lots more work for us?
2. According to a recent article in Personnel Today - representation of women in HR is in decline. What do you think girls?

Interesting Read/Discussion  

Here's a welcome decision for employers who've bent over backwards to accommodate an employee's wishes and still find themselves in tribunal.

Refusal to allow Muslim employee time off work to attend mosque was not discriminatory

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If you have any comments on the content of the blog or Hot HR please contact me.

Please continue to recommend the group to any HR contacts that you might have.  The aim of the group is for information and ideas to be available via Hot HR, with people feeling that they can contribute to an open discussion, focussing on real issues and quality discussion.