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Monthly Archives: July 2012

How to Effectively Communicate With Your Employees

Posted on 27/07/2012 by Michael Scutt • 0 Comments

Guest Post 

Good internal communication is essential to the effective working of a team and the success of an organisation overall. Poor communication, conversely, leads to demotivated teams, errors and missed opportunities and even serious operational problems and PR mistakes. The topic is so timely that most large corporates will have large communciations teams in place. Often, there will be more than one to handle the external communications and PR activity for external audiences and a separate internal communications and engagement team to focus on internal messaging.

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Redundancy Scoring: An Uphill Struggle for Employees?

Posted on 25/07/2012 by Michael Scutt • 1 Comment

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How should an employer select which employees to make redundant? Unless a unique role is being removed from the business structure there needs to be a criteria in place to choose the unlucky people to be sent to the departure lounge.

Ideally that selection criteria should be objective and non-discriminatory as possible, although previous case law (Mitchells of Lancaster (Brewers)Ltd v Tattersall) has held that using non-objective criteria is not fatal to a redundancy selection exercise, provided the criteria is used fairly. However, problems can arise where the criteria itself is not in dispute.

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A Day in the Life of a Trainee Solicitor

Posted on 24/07/2012 by Michael Scutt • 0 Comments

Guest Post

Recently qualified solicitor, Mike Dawson, discusses the time he spent learning the ropes as a trainee lawyer.

 

Application Process

 

I graduated from the University of Manchester in 2008 knowing that my prospects for employment would be relatively high, but I wasn’t quite prepared for just how competitive the industry had become when I submitted applications for a training contract.

 

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Accident at the Workplace

Posted on 20/07/2012 by Michael Scutt • 0 Comments

Guest Post

Suffered an Accident at the Workplace?

 

It is every employer’s duty to protect their employees and this includes a legal obligation to report serious accidents and to provide sick pay should it be owed.

 

Health and Safety at Work

 

When an accident has taken place in the workplace, your employer may have a duty to report it to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) if it is serious enough. This includes major instances such as broken bones, any injury that prevents the employee from working for three days or more, disease and death. However, in cases of fatal or extremely serious accidents, employers also have a duty to make a report to the Incident Contact Centre.

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ET Fees Unveiled

Posted on 19/07/2012 by Michael Scutt • 0 Comments

 

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Last week the Government finally produced its response to the consultation on fees in the Employment Tribunal. The full response, all 86 pages of it is available via the press release. In a controversial move, fees for commencing a claim and then taking it all the way to a final hearing will be introduced from the summer of 2013.

The rationale is to make Tribunal users contribute to the cost of the system they use,

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Filed Under: Employment Law Reform, Practice & Procedure