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Hybrid Working, SSP Rebate, Vaccines

By |2022-01-30T21:56:14+00:00January 26th, 2022|Employment Law and Regulation|

Guidance urging people to work from home wherever possible in Scotland is to be relaxed in favour of a "hybrid" system of office and remote working Employers have been asked to phase workers back into spending some time in the office from Monday 31 January. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the move was possible

SPP Rebate Scheme & Right To Work Checks

By |2022-01-20T14:33:38+00:00January 20th, 2022|Employment Law and Regulation|

Return of the SSP rebate scheme for Covid related absences Regulations have now been laid before parliament formally reinstating the SSP rebate scheme that came to an end on 30th September 2021. The rebate scheme allows businesses with less than 250 staff to recover up to 2 weeks of SSP paid out for absence due

Positive Mental Health For Everyone

By |2022-01-20T16:10:46+00:00January 17th, 2022|Employee Wellbeing|

Monday 17 January was named ‘Blue Monday’ by UK-based travel company, Sky Travel, as most depressing day of the year. The concept was first published in a 2005 press release from the company, which claimed to have calculated the date "mathematically".There is of course no credible evidence to suggest that one day in particular can

Redundancy Appeals: Brexit & Recruitment

By |2022-01-26T12:46:20+00:00November 24th, 2021|Employee Contracts|

Redundancy Appeals Process While redundancy is a potentially fair reason for dismissal, as an employer you will need to also show that a fair procedure has been followed. This may in some circumstances involve a pooling and selection process. It will always be expected that an employer should, as a minimum, provide advance warning

Social Media: Client Solicitation

By |2022-01-20T11:53:09+00:00November 16th, 2021|Employee Contracts|

How Social Media is facilitating the Solicitation of Clients by Departing Employees Over the past decade, there has been a huge increase in the use of social media platforms by businesses. Social media can be a very effective way in which employees can disseminate information quickly and cost-effectively and it can also be used

Festive Period Employer Considerations

By |2022-01-20T14:36:39+00:00November 10th, 2021|Employee Contracts|

Considerations for Employers on the run-up to Christmas 2021 For the past 20 months, the country has been told to lock down, work from home where possible and avoid close contact with others. With the successful roll-out of the vaccination programme and the opening up of the UK once again, many people are keen

Starting pay hits record high

By |2022-02-07T13:46:51+00:00October 19th, 2021|Employee Contracts|

Starting pay for all workers hit a record high In September due to an increase in competition for staff, research has found. Experts warn that wage growth will not sustain economic recovery and call on government to work with firms to avoid a “crisis-driven sugar rush”. The latest Report on Jobs survey by the

Leadership v Management & Update on Long Covid

By |2022-02-07T13:48:31+00:00September 15th, 2021|Employee Wellbeing, Leadership|

Management v Leadership Have you ever considered the vast difference between being a manager and a leader? Being a good manager doesn’t automatically make you a good leader. A key difference between a manager and a leader is that managers delegate tasks to those who work for them whereas leaders have people follow them

Scottish Homeworking Survey

By |2022-02-07T13:50:06+00:00July 8th, 2021|Employee Contracts, Employee Wellbeing|

Homeworking & Flexible Working Scottish employees who work from home suffer with excessive workloads and have poorer work-life balance than those working in the office, a survey has found. The latest Working Lives Scotland report from the CIPD, which polled 1,007 people working in Scotland, found more than a third (37 per cent) of

Flexible Working & Right to Work Update

By |2022-02-07T15:10:16+00:00June 29th, 2021|Employee Contracts, Employment Law and Regulation|

Flexible Working Flexible working requests are not new in the workplace. They have, however, been thrown into the limelight following the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. For both employers and employees alike, the switch to homeworking as a business continuity measure during the pandemic has revealed that in certain cases, working from home and

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