Employment law

Birthdays policyUse our birthdays policy if you want to permit your employees to take their birthday off work as an additional day's leave outside the normal annual leave provisions. This can be a useful motivational tool. It's best to keep it separate... Read more

Holiday request formIt's important that employees know how they should request annual leave. Having a formal system in place which involves the employee completing a holiday request form means that everyone knows where they stand in terms of whether a... Read more

Gifts report formUse our gifts report form to give your employees an easy way to declare the receipt of gifts from clients, suppliers, etc. It's then up to you to decide whether the gift is reasonable or whether it's too lavish and therefore could pote... Read more

Letter to employee's emergency contactWhere an employee is absent from work without permission and you've been unsuccessful in contacting them personally, one of the steps you should take is to contact their next of kin or listed emergency contact. Use... Read more

Right to search authorisation formEven if you have a contractually binding right to search policy, carrying out a personal search without an employee's express consent may constitute both a civil trespass to the person and a criminal assault. Use our ... Read more

Domestic emergencies policyOccasionally, employees may suffer from genuine, unforeseen domestic emergencies, such as burst pipes, heating systems breaking down, house fires, lightning strikes and burglaries. There's no statutory right to time off work... Read more

Employee of the month policyOur employee of the month policy is intended to motivate your workforce to achieve high standards of work performance, by awarding recognition to those who have performed particularly well each month. However, it's importan... Read more

Enhanced redundancy payments policyIf you want to provide for enhanced redundancy pay (ERP), it's useful to have a policy setting out how the payment will be calculated.  It's better to ensure that you base it on the statutory redundancy payments (SRP... Read more

Induction policyUse our induction policy alongside our induction checklist to ensure you have everything covered when a new employee starts work. You can also use it for newly-promoted employees and those who have transferred from a different work lo... Read more

Payroll giving policyUse our policy to introduce a scheme to enable you to help charity by facilitating employees to make regular tax-efficient charitable donations directly from their salary.Scheme operationA payroll giving scheme is fairly simply t... Read more