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  • Football loses its 'colour' as Dickinson lookalike is sacked

    Guru was saddened to hear the news that Hull City Football Club had sacked manager Phil Brown. This, you understand, is not because Guru is a fan of Hull - a city that is north of Watford you see - but because Brown showed the world that metrosexuality is actually a very bad thing. From his ridiculous...
    Posted to Guru Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 18-03-2010

  • Constructive Dismissal

    If your line manager - out of the blue - says to you "your performance is less than zero" and "I don't think I need anyone doing your job", does that constitute sufficient grounds for a grievance leading to a claim of unfair constructive dismissal? (I originally posted this on...
    Posted to Legal questions (Forum) by Queen Bee on 08-03-2010

  • Re: Lost contracts

    I'd be tempted to let them go to the other employer - do you really want people with this level of 'loyalty'? With regards competition clauses in contracts, they really are difficult: I believe it's very hard to enforce them, and you will really need to get a legal expert to draw them...
    Posted to Employment law (Forum) by Sandi on 28-02-2010

  • Re: Advice being taken to employment tribunal

    First of all, please do not panic! Although you are an employer, she cannot take you to an Employment Tribunal after such a short period of employment: after just a couple of weeks she has no employment rights at all. In addition, I am certain that there are additional protections around employers such...
    Posted to Employment law (Forum) by Sandi on 28-02-2010

  • 'Right to request time off for training' legislation

    Apologies if this has already been asked as I could not find any similar discussion, and have re-posted on Training thread as no response yet under Employment Law... What is your company doing in response to the new legislation on training requests? We provide quite a lot of training and the current...
    Posted to Training, learning and development (Forum) by Lisa67 on 24-02-2010

  • Diabetic porn surfer gets his job back

    A curious story that went somewhat under-reported this week. A community worker sacked for looking at porn in front of children has won his job back and a £23,000 payout after blaming his actions on diabetes. Alistair Dickson said he was not aware he had logged on to the porn site as he had a hypoglycemic...
    Posted to Guru Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 24-02-2010

  • 'Right to request time to train' legislation

    Apologies if this has already been asked as I could not find any similar discussion. What are companies doing in response to the new legislation on training requests? We provide quite a lot of training and the current practice is that we offer training according to business needs, either in response...
    Posted to Employment law (Forum) by Lisa67 on 19-02-2010

  • Work related stress in the HR profession & impact on future career

    In November last year I submitted a grievance against an hr colleauge for bullying and unprofessional conduct. To date the grievance has not been dealt with and even worse, I had to continue working sitting next to the individual ever since. I have already been signed off for 10 days this year (which...
    Posted to General HR (Forum) by vero on 15-02-2010

  • MPs get kickers in a twist about litigants website

    Pity poor Gordon Turner, co-founder of of Partners Employment Lawyers and founder of the Serial Litigants website. His site offers employers facing tribunal claims a background search on claimants at a cost of £99. Turner has compiled a list of 30 so-called 'serial claimants', with one man alone...
    Posted to Guru Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 27-01-2010

  • Re: Legal QA Bullying in the workplace

    Dr Bruce, I fully concur with your sentiments. It seems that bullying in the workplace is somewhat of an 'undiscussable' in organisations - at least in the sense that it's something that happens 'elsewhere'... All too often, fear drives people to 'work together' in such ways...
    Posted to General HR (Forum) by fran on 21-01-2010
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