Your Employee Takes on a Second Job – Should You Care?

Posted in: Seamus Says - Employment Law Discussion on 21/11/2022 Christine: Yeah. So just conscious of the time, I want to just get onto kind of the last part of this discussion, which is about employees taking on a second job. On the face of it, you would go, "Well, fair enough. It's their life. Off they go, get on with it". But it can cause difficulties, can'...

Company Loans to Employees - Should You Offer Them? And If So, How Do You Manage them?

Posted in: Seamus Says - Employment Law Discussion on 21/11/2022 Christine: And with a company loan, you've mentioned that a couple of times, how would you go about managing that? You're going to need paperwork to back this up. It's going to be a deduction from wages in reality, isn't it? Seamus: It is, yeah. Look, some employers, some of those large companies...

Contractual Pay Rise v One-off Payments – the Pros and Cons of Each Solution

Posted in: Seamus Says - Employment Law Discussion on 21/11/2022 Christine: Yeah. So we've got contractual pay rise on one hand, which obviously becomes a legal obligation once you do it, it's in the contract there, versus the one-off payment. So how would you manage a one-off payment? How do you express that to make sure it's not, "Oh, it's October. It's time ...

What are an Employer’s Legal Obligations in Relation to Providing Financial Support?

Posted in: Seamus Says - Employment Law Discussion on 21/11/2022 Christine: So I suppose the first question really, Seamus, is what are an employer's legal obligations in relation to providing additional financial support? Seamus: Well, the easy answer to that is they're few and far between. The employment relationship is regulated on a contractual basis, and ...

Too Hot to Work - Workplace Temperatures

Posted in: Seamus Says - Employment Law Discussion on 17/11/2022 If we move on to our workplace temperatures, we do have a question in on it already. So we've got someone who's been asked to provide sunscreen for employees. I suppose that really goes down to where do you work? If you're in the office, probably not a great argument to be had, but if you're on a b...

Fire & Re-hire – the Decision in USDAW v Tesco plc.

Posted in: Seamus Says - Employment Law Discussion on 17/11/2022 So if we move on our Tesco v Usdaw, this has been a bit of an on-going saga. We've had decisions for and against, and it seems to be just take it in turn really who wins on this one. And it's set to continue. So can you remind us what's been going on with this case so far? Seamus: Yeah. Well, this ...

Dealing with Extreme Political Views

Posted in: Seamus Says - Employment Law Discussion on 17/11/2022 So let's get to some awkward issues then, Seamus. I stumbled across this question on an HR forum. I think it may well have been on the CIPD actually. So the person asked, "It has been brought to my attention by a concerned employee that we have a member of staff who has extreme political views. The...

How Can Employers Help With the Cost of Childcare?

Posted in: Seamus Says - Employment Law Discussion on 11/08/2022 In this months Employment @11 webinar we were delighted to welcome Mark McAllister of the Labour Relations Agency to discuss strikes, rising costs, and union-busting. Childcare costs are always in my mind because they are absolutely extortionate. I think since 2010 a survey said they've gone up by ...

What Is The Current Law on Strikes in Northern Ireland?

Posted in: Seamus Says - Employment Law Discussion on 11/08/2022 In this months Employment @11 webianr we were delighted to welcome Mark McAllister of the Labour Relations Agency to discuss strikes, rising costs, and union-busting. Mark: Yeah, you would be forgiven to think you were transported back into the 1970s. There is an incredible amount of industrial act...

Transferring Employees to a New Team - Are Their T&C's Impacted?

Posted in: Seamus Says - Employment Law Discussion on 05/07/2022 "Can a full-time employee, transferring role within a corporation at the employer's request and within the same legal entity, request or expect their employer to include within the unchanged terms and conditions a reference to redundancy?" So, in this scenario, the transfer is occurring between tw...