Whistleblowing: do we need “guardians” or should this fall to HR?
Top 10 HR questions in February 2015: E-cigarettes
E-cigarettes and smoking policies were on employers’ minds last month, with the first tribunal decision involving disciplinary action for using...
Serial litigant banned from further tribunal claims
In DLA Piper’s latest case report, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) granted an indefinite restriction of proceedings order preventing further...
How to manage sickness issues with uncooperative employees
If an employee will not consent to a medical examination, or to the disclosure of a medical report, what can...
Tribunal watch: Re-enactment of Ghost film scene not sexual harassment
An employment tribunal has found that a line manager with a “predilection for innuendo” did not commit sexual harassment against...
TUPE service provision changes – which employees transfer?
Determining whether or not TUPE applies to an outsourcing or insourcing situation can be a headache for employers. Linda Glover...
Too tight or too loose: how does your dress code compare?
Tattoos, beards and piercings are just three fashions that may have challenged employers’ dress codes. Trends that may have felt...
HR Tech Talk: Learning to love HR software
Western European businesses spent €2.5 billion on HR software systems in 2014, so how can HR professionals learn to love...
How should HR respond to the Fit for Work service (assuming they’ve heard of it)?
The Government’s new Fit for Work service is being launched in stages throughout 2015, allowing employers to refer employees off...
Personality clashes in the workplace: five interesting employment cases
Personality clashes are the third most common cause of workplace conflict, according to an XpertHR survey. In what circumstances can...
Shared parental leave
Top 10 HR questions in February 2015: E-cigarettes
E-cigarettes and smoking policies were on employers’ minds last month, with the first tribunal decision involving disciplinary action for using...
Shared parental leave: how does your organisation compare?
Is your organisation fully prepared for shared parental leave? XpertHR is conducting a short benchmarking survey on how employers plan...
Shared parental leave: what are the technology implications?
The legal aspects of the new rights to shared parental leave have been scrutinised at length, but how can HR...
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How to manage sickness issues with uncooperative employees
If an employee will not consent to a medical examination, or to the disclosure of a medical report, what can...
TUPE service provision changes – which employees transfer?
Determining whether or not TUPE applies to an outsourcing or insourcing situation can be a headache for employers. Linda Glover...
Serial litigant banned from further tribunal claims
In DLA Piper’s latest case report, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) granted an indefinite restriction of proceedings order preventing further...
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The rise of CPI: HR hedges its bets over inflation
Inflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), fell to its lowest ever level in January 2015, hitting just...
Is it time to consign competency frameworks to the bin?
HR departments have relied on competency frameworks for decades, but given how fast operating environments change, they are arguably no...
How to support employees through divorce
January is a peak time for couples to separate or divorce, but few employers have sufficient measures in place to...
Personnel Today Awards
Personnel Today Awards 2014 winners: Accenture take top prize for recruitment innovation
The Personnel Today Award for Innovation in Recruitment was given to Accenture for doubling it's amount of hires after the introduction of new technology...
Personnel Today Awards 2014 winners: Village Urban Resorts & De Vere Hotels win Employee Engagement award – more than 1,000 employees
Employee engagement can have a dramatic impact on business results. Village Urban Resorts & De Vere Hotels were considered worthy...
Personnel Today Awards 2014 winners: Hymans Robertson top employee engagement category – fewer than 1,000 employees
Hymans Robertson’s efforts to turn around employee engagement, decrease absence and improve productivity saw it take home the Personnel Today...
XpertHR Editors Choice PTOD feed
- Shared parental leave: model maternity policy updatedXpertHR's model policy on maternity leave has been updated with a new section to alert employees to their right to curtail their maternity leave to take shared parental leave. A number of other model documents have also been updated with details of shared parental leave, including our model letter responding to an employee who has notified her intention […]
- New model policy on shared parental leave in adoption situationsXpertHR provides a new model policy on shared parental leave in adoption situations. Shared parental leave is available to employees having a child placed for adoption with them (or in the case of an adoption from overseas, having a child they are adopting enter Great Britain) on or after 5 April 2015.
- What is a reasonable investigation into a fraudulent expenses claim?The Court of Appeal held in Shrestha v Genesis Housing Association Ltd that the employer's overall investigation into the misconduct of an employee was reasonable in the circumstances.
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