Category Archives: HR & Employment
Employers’ groups overstate tribunal issue
As things stand, of course, employers have 11 months or so to judge if an employee is competent and to get rid of him/her if needs be. Would raising the threshold to two years mean they’ll let incompetents soldier on for 23 months?
Age discrimination win is heaven for lawyers
A channel more out of tune with the times, yet more in tune with its laddish and bloke-ish viewers would be hard to find, well other than BBC Sports on Saturday afternoons.
Employment tribunal rage – the hidden agenda
Perhaps employers should look to improving their liability insurance cover, so that they are not so exposed to tribunal costs. Or acquire more back bone and stand up to ridiculous claims and not be so willing to settle before they reach tribunal.
Al Qaeda – embracing diversity?
For all its obvious failings on the politically correct HR front, Al Qaeda can’t be accused of racism.
EU plans to hike maternity pay are as bonkers as FIFA
Bearing down on costs is something of a mantra these days – unless you’re a member of the Fifa executive committee. And, it appears, the employer’s best friend, the European Union.
When equality met Scrooge
Oh yeah. Call me a one-eyed Philistine but I was under the impression that Christmas is the one vaguely religious festival observed in various ways by most of the population
Employee assistance programmes face divorce day
Employers paying for EAP services for their staff have only themselves to blame – they should cut back Christmas holidays and put divorce day back where it belongs: December 26.
Merit, rather than diversity, is what won the cup
a hard lesson from the playing field is that selection on merit is a necessary condition for success and that diversity is incidental to that
So much for the Acas code
Sad to say many in HR, in my experience, just can’t cut the mustard when it comes to handling redundancies and dismissals and often provide dismissed employees with all the grounds they need to take action at tribunal.
