Employment law
Buying and selling holiday policyOur policy enables you to operate a scheme under which your staff can buy or sell a portion of their annual leave entitlement in a particular holiday year, subject to certain conditions. Buy or sell?If an employee buy... Read more
30 Aug 2022
Hybrid working policyUse our policy to set out your hybrid working arrangements and what rights and responsibilities you and your staff have during such arrangementsWhat is hybrid working?Hybrid working, also known as agile, blended or remote working... Read more
16 Aug 2022
Notice to cancel holidayOn rare occasions, usually because something unexpected happens at work, you may need to cancel an employee's annual leave that you'd previously authorised. You can use our notice to do this. Retraction of leave approvalNormal... Read more
07 Jul 2022
Final written warning for first misconduct offenceFollowing a disciplinary hearing, it may be possible in some cases for you to skip the first written warning stage and move straight to issuing the employee with a final written warning. Our letter co... Read more
07 Jul 2022
Extension of suspension letterWhere an employee has been suspended whilst you investigate very serious misconduct allegations, if that investigation is taking longer than expected, be sure to keep the employee informed using our letter.Suspension fro... Read more
07 Jul 2022
Initial letter to sick employeeWhere an employee goes off sick, if they're going to be off for longer than a few days, use our letter to remind them about your sickness absence reporting and evidence requirements. Sickness absence rulesFor any perio... Read more
07 Jul 2022
Bonus payment letterWhere you decide to pay a discretionary bonus to an employee, use our bonus payment letter to notify them of this and the amount.Fair exercise of discretionWhere the payment of a bonus is expressed to be discretionary, you still h... Read more
06 Jul 2022
Sickness absence policyOur policy statement sets out a detailed reporting procedure for both short-term and long-term sickness absence, including the provision of evidence of incapacity, consideration of statements of fitness for work, "return-to-work... Read more
05 Jul 2022
Acceptance of volunteer for redundancy letterEmployees who volunteer and are accepted for redundancy are still regarded in law as having been dismissed, i.e. they have not resigned. This means you must still continue to follow a fair redundancy proce... Read more
15 Jun 2022
Reporting criminal offences clauseYou can insert our clause into employment contracts to place a requirement on employees to inform you of any investigations, charges or prosecutions to which they're subject relating to criminal offences.Off-duty crim... Read more
10 Jun 2022