“Garden leave” or “gardening leave” is the practice of requiring an employee not to attend the employer’s premises for work during his or her contractual notice period. Instead, the employee is paid his or her full contractual salary to stay at home. The practice is often used where a senior or key employee resigns in order to join a competitor.
Many cases highlight how professionalism is lacking in UK football when it comes to employment contracts, even in the ultra rich Premier League.
The move by Italian high-end design firm Brunello Cucinelli is designed to protect workers who have been vaccinated.
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) was created at such speed that it created many unanswered questions. The government has...
A misconduct investigation at services giant KPMG into the use of WhatsApp messages by a senior manager has led to the departure of three top executives.
Employees who are leaving under a cloud can cause problems, demonstrated recently when a Twitter employee hid President Trump’s account...
New XpertHR Benchmarking research has found that most employers are happy with the way notice periods work at their organisation, ...
XpertHR is running a short benchmarking survey on employee notice periods, focusing on resignations outside the probationary period.
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Employers that have not updated restrictive covenants in their employment contracts should do so as the jobs market improves, and...
What do employers need to know about notice periods on the termination of employment? Ashok Kanani answers the top 10...
As part of the Summer Budget, the Chancellor announced plans to change the tax treatment of termination payments and the...
Recent statistics have indicated a rise in the number of attempts by employees or former employees to misappropriate an employer’s...
The risk of employees using contact lists to poach clients when they leave an organisation is nothing new, but the...
Meriel Schindler, head of employment at Withers LLP, looks at how employers should respond to employee resignations and how to...
Restrictive covenants are one of the key weapons in the fight against unlawful competition by former employees. Drafting enforceable restrictions...
