Request regarding shortlisting information

Hi,  We recently ran a recruitment campaign to find freelance tutors who could tutor training courses on an ad hoc basis.  The shortlisting criteria was based on qualifications, experience and geographical location predominantely.  We have applicants

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Employee Handbook

Morning All

I am new to HR and just embarking on my HRM Level 5.  I work for an SME with big ideas, and the reason I am here is that we currently dont have an HR function, or any written policies and procedures supporting the business. 

My role in the

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Landmark ruling gives gig workers employment rights

65 workers at Hermes have recently been awarded 'national minimum wage' and holiday pay when a tribunal found they were not 'independent' workers.

Is this another nail in the coffin for the gig economy or will big business overcome the worker in the

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On Call Time

Hi everyone,

I've just read this from People Management, looks like it was posted today

Does being on-call count as ‘working time’

It seems that in some cases the answer is yes... I found this interesting because in a previous role within the hospitalit

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Discrimination within recruitment

Last week I applied for a job via a Recruiter. They rang me on Tuesday and we had a discussion about the role and my experience, I also mentioned my personal situation that I had taken time out of work to care for my daughter, I then received a furth

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EAT decision on shared parental pay - hot off the press

So this is a topic that often comes up in DER and when discussing family friendly policies.

The EAT's most recent decision is below, courtesy of Practical Employment Law (PLC):

Capita Customer Management Ltd v Ali and another UKEAT/0161/17.

The EAT has

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Extra holiday for not taking sick days

Someone where I work has suggested we give an extra days holiday to people who don’t take time off sick for that year.

Personally I thing this is a terrible idea but is there a legal basis that I can use to object (ie discrimination?)

any advice gratef

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Transition from Weekly to Monthly Pay

Good morning!

I work for a family run business with 230 employees.  Senior management have requested that we look at the transition from weekly to monthly pay.

At the moment the majoirty of employees are hourly paid and we have a few salaried employees

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Guessing ethnicity based on name

Hi all

Recently, I was asked by a senior member of staff to guess the number of ethnic minorities we have in the business based on employee names.

I was really uncomfortable with this request and refused to do it, but the business just found someone el

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Breakfast news - an HR smorgasbord?

So making breakfast today and listening to the radio for a brief period and I felt I had been teleported into an employee relations workshop!

So first up we have a discussion on employment status, and the government response to the Taylor Review, bai

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Changing to a salary sacrifice (salary exchange) pension plan

Hi all - Happy Friday :)

I have recently been discussing pensions with my colleague who manages employee benefits and we are considering moving our pension scheme from a defined benefit to a salary sacrifice scheme. We understand the advantages this w

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Change to Contract Advice Needed- Commission Structure

Hello everybody. First time I have created a discussion but I just need some help at work and hope you can help!

We currently have a situation where we have amended a sales team (2 people) commission structure because it had been deemed a business nee

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Carrillion - liquidation versus administration

Morning all

Very sad to see the collapse of Carrillion and that it has entered liquidiation.   Not only for the direcly engaged employees who have lost their jobs but also for the many sub-contractors who undertake services on behalf of Carrillion and

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Guidance on mobile/hot desk set up

About to trial hot-desk set up in couple areas of the business and everyone is being given laptops. When asking about the other equipment (e.g. docking station, monitor, keyboard and mouse) I was advised that they're not needed. When I've looked at g

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How UK employment law is made

Morning all

Just reflecting on a discussion with one of my level 5 groups last week when we were talking about external factors and how they impact organisations.

We got onto the debate (naturally) about Brexit and how this may affect employment legisl

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online facilitators

hi guys

Does anyone know the email of the duty online facilitator for HRM level 5, please? As ours are on holiday and I need help urgently.

kind regards

Kaoutar

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Adoption allowance query

If an employee is not entitled to sat maternity due to length of service, they get maternity allowance. If an employee has not worked for 26 weeks when they are matched with a child (for adoption purposes) will they get adoption allowance?

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IR35 Contractors

My company is looking for me to conduct a survey across all people within the company to find out their thoughts/feelings/positives/negatives about working for the company.

Several of the people that work for us are IR35 contractors distributed worldw

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TUPE & ETO

Hi everyone

Whilst doing the employment law module (level 5) I was reading some of the case law, in particular Enterprise Managed Services V Dance 2009, (summary here: http://www.shoosmiths.co.uk/client-resources/legal-updates/Changing-employment-term

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Expenses and Mileage claims

Hi all, 

I have recently started a new role whereby I work from home 3 days a week and out and about 2 days per week (They haven't yet given me a contract so nothing is detailed out at this point). I have been told the following; 

Mileage is paid at 20

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