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    Unpaid Leave and Redundancy

    As with many organisations at present we are facing the unfortunate situation where we are having to make people redundant. As an alternative one of our staff members has posed the idea that they would like to take a sabbatical for 6 months (unpaid). This proposal would work for us and we are...
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    Implementing Policies and Procedures

    Thank you Newchodge that is great advice, I hadn't thought of providing the opportunity to view the documentation prior to the meeting. Even if we hadn't implemented it still would have resulted in asking them to attend a meeting to discuss - there have been informal discussions with them...
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    Implementing Policies and Procedures

    I am sorry if I have caused offence. We have brought in an HR Advisor who has already looked at our contracts of employment and under guidance of them we are in the process of re-writing. I am unable to contact them at present as they are on annual leave for the next 10 days so I was really...
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    Implementing Policies and Procedures

    They also want us to send them copies of the evidence that we have but we have serious concerns about doing this as it is client information relating to their financial accounts (we are an accountancy business) we were more than happy to share this information with them as part of the meeting...
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    Implementing Policies and Procedures

    They have also issued a subject access request for copies of their personnel file, training record etc that we are more than happy to provide but they are also asking for copies of email communication about their information shared with an HR advisor that we have contacted regarding this - do we...
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    Implementing Policies and Procedures

    They have just over 2 years service. It may appear that it was implemented to deal with them specifically however this is not the case but we are at a loss as to how to prove this.
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    Implementing Policies and Procedures

    We only employ 6 members of staff but due to being a relatively new start up business that is very busy there wasn't the time - lame excuse I know but true. We don't feel that it amounts to a contractual change there is reference to Review of Performance within the contract but does not we feel...
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    Implementing Policies and Procedures

    Hi there Our organisation has just implemented a new performance policy and procedure. No consultation was undertaken with staff before it was implemented. We have now had to invite an employee to a meeting to discuss their poor performance - they have been provided with a copy of the policy...
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    Call Out Procedures

    We are currently in the process of reviewing our call out procedures when our office alarm is triggered outside of normal working hours and I have a few questions that I am hoping to get help with: If a person is called out in the evening, in the night or in the early morning what impact does...
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    Apprentice Off Long-Term Sick

    We have an apprentice Joiner who is currently off on the sick after having an accident on holiday and fracturing his wrist. He has been absent from July. They are in their second year and has already missed 3 weeks from this years college term. His manager met with him last week where he...
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    Redundancy Serving Notice

    Hi yes we have but we cannot see anywhere whether we are able to serve notice at the first meeting or whether we have to have a second meeting.
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    Redundancy Serving Notice

    As result of a restructure we have identified that 1 role will be made redundant, in line with best practice we want to fully consult with the employee. We will meet with the employee informally to advise them of this and will then invite them to attend a one-to-one consultation meeting to...
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    1 Month Event Holiday Pay Query

    We will shortly be running an event for a 1 month period. We have recruited 30 new staff members to cover this event. All of the staff will have varied hours dependent on the number of shifts that they can work over the 1 month period, they will be advising us of their availability and we will...
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    Self-Employed Contractor Raising a Complaint about an Employee

    Many thanks Karl - my gut instinct was to treat this through our complaints policy rather than our grievance policy so I think that this may be the route that we go down. Thanks again
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    Self-Employed Contractor Raising a Complaint about an Employee

    Hi there I am looking for some advice. We engage the services of a self-employed therapist within the workplace and have done so for a number of years. They have recently submitted a complaint regarding a member of our permanent staffing team and their behaviour towards them. As they are not...
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