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.
The creator of ChatGPT is a facing the threat of OpenAI staff quitting unless the board reinstates it co-founders.
More than half of UK employees were not invited to a formal exit interview when resigning from their last job role, new research has shown.
What lessons are there for female leaders in the resignations of Jacinda Ardern and Nicola Sturgeon?
The downfall of Boris Johnson is a suitable moment for HR to consider how they may best handle the departure of executives who no longer have support.
Resignation cards are here to resolve the problem posed by the dreaded resignation chat. Shame they weren’t here in time for government ministers this week.
A senior HSBC executive has resigned this week, claiming he was “cancelled” after comments he made about the financial risks...
XpertHR's most frequent HR questions in June 2022 involved dealing with ex-employees, bank holidays and unauthorised absence.
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.
As more employees return to the workplace, employers may want to know what proportion of their workforce has had their...
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.
Regulations capping public sector exit payments at £95,000 have been revoked by the government, after a review found the cap...
A vice president at Amazon has resigned “in dismay” at the company’s treatment of workers who criticised working conditions that...
A secretary who resigned because she was asked to be complicit in discriminatory recruitment practices was constructively and unfairly dismissed,...
