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    How to manage membership

    How do I manage membership? There's a link in my account to Manage membership, but that just takes me to https://billing.stripe.com/ , and I get no further - they don't send emails that they suggest they will. Karl Limpert
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    Some industries still hate the idea of new entrants

    I don't know how many times I've seen it over the years, how the idea of an employment lawyer/advocate/consultant - whatever term they adopt, or sometimes none - is simply not suitable for legal advice . Law has always been an elitist industry protecting their own. Today's entrant is a lawyer...
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    Disciplining Staff in front of others . Does this constitute bullying

    Some people may think talking to the people they rely on to perform their own duties is good management. Oddly, Dominic Raab refused to meet with the Criminal Bar Association when it called its members out on “strike” (technically probably not a strike, as they’re not employed). During the...
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    Disciplining Staff in front of others . Does this constitute bullying

    This is surely all that matters (it's actually "consideration and respect", but more or less the same thing): the wider world of work - every employer here - has no definition, let alone a legal obligation to avoid, “bullying” – most employers are free to bully incompetent staff before or during...
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    Additional Bank Holidays - are you paying for them ?

    Another bank holiday that the gov't have decided employers don't actually have to pay for, unless employers are happy to delegate the holiday part of their employment contracts to the gov't. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63528830 Karl Limpert
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    God save the Queen

    Actually something significant had changed: we were no longer a part of the EU – we had decided to be a third-party, and to be treated as such. And as we didn’t ask for any special treatment while we built new purification plants (as if we didn’t have time to prepare for this, deciding only to...
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    Additional Bank Holidays - are you paying for them ?

    I missed the statement initially, where it's suggested that employers have to "ask your staff if they're willing to work". What sort of employment relationship involves asking staff if they'll work (except zero hour contracts, where there is mutually no obligation)? And why would you need to...
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    Additional Bank Holidays - are you paying for them ?

    Well, in the UK if you provide leave for all bank holidays, we've already gone from the 20 days leave stipulated by European directives, to 28 days, to 30(+) days this year, if you include all possible bank holidays, so perhaps @Talay has a point - it has already happened! Karl Limpert
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    Additional Bank Holidays - are you paying for them ?

    What is the actual reference to bank holidays in the contract? (It's much better when employment contracts don't mention bank holidays at all - if you decide to close, you just require them to take a day's leave, from 28 days allowance.) Karl Limpert
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    On Call - Working time/rest breaks

    The law in this area is quite complicated, but as it has a Wikipedia page, perhaps that’s an easy-to-read resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mencap_Society_v_Tomlinson-Blake (the Supreme Court judgment, for those that want to read the whole thing...
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    Staff reluctant to drive to internal meeting 1.5 miles away because of no business insurance on car!

    And this is why employers should not write their own manuals! You need to cover both phallic fruit & veg, and also all phallic items & any other object that could (even by force) enter a worker. Or just not bother with such random nonsense…;) Karl Limpert
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    Im not going to be in today, sorry. Cant even go into it

    What some have to appreciate (and I include you @Lucan Unlordly in this) is that the employee, the subordinate in the employment relationship, made the deliberate choice to text to say “they’re not going to be in today, can’t go into it”. They could just as easily have said “family issue...
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    Im not going to be in today, sorry. Cant even go into it

    Please Unlordly, have the decency to reference just once where I jumped to a single conclusion. Or retract your silly allegations. The most sensible explanation would have been a honest explanation, a ghastly detail recorded by the employer so that they have more than a reasonable excuse to...
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    Im not going to be in today, sorry. Cant even go into it

    Let me give an explanation as to why I believe it’s always important to “go in heavy”, “formal”, “keep a record” or whatever else you want to describe as keeping a record of every chat, even the ones that lead to nothing. @simon field called the position out at...
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    Im not going to be in today, sorry. Cant even go into it

    How can you lose so many employees for keeping a record of a chat? How do they even know about it? Are they all making a subject access request, discovering that you kept a note that said “I spoke to Ms X after she didn’t turn up for work, and given she was in a car accident, no further action...
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