Practical and legal issues that arise for employers on a resignation include: the employee's notice period, restrictive covenants, garden leave, accrued but untaken annual leave, recruitment of a replacement, and arranging a handover.
Employers should measure their labour turnover (the outflow of people from an organisation) to ensure that it has an acceptable resignation rate. Employers should analyse any underlying or recurring reasons for staff departures.
Remote and home-working may help many employers to recruit staff, but it seems to have less of an impact on retaining staff, new research suggests.
Hospital worker whose absence was treated as unauthorised while he awaited his wife's test result has suceeded in part of his tribunal claim.
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Update: A representative of Ms Agarwal has asked us to clarify that after a thorough investigation there were no findings of bullying, and Ms Agarwal did not as a result resign or retire at that time from the firm. We are happy to make the position clear.
Digital tools can play in ensuring the ‘offboarding’ experience is well organised and communicated, writes Duncan Casemore.
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A secretary who resigned because she was asked to be complicit in discriminatory recruitment practices was constructively and unfairly dismissed,...
The managing director of an electrical supplies company who resigned “in the heat of the moment” was unfairly dismissed.
An...
If a witness in a disciplinary procedure wishes to remain anonymous, how can the employer balance their privacy against the...
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A letter that gives one month’s notice should not automatically be interpreted as a letter of resignation, an employment appeal...
While progress has been made in some areas of the Brexit negotiations, including agreement on the rights of EU citizens...
