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Rights of fixed-term employees
How to fulfil your legal obligations by granting fixed-term employees the same rights as permanent staff.
Breach of contract claims
Claims and counter-claims arising out of a failure to observe contractual terms and conditions.
Redundancy selection: non compulsory
Pros and cons of voluntary redundancy and early retirement options.
Redundancy and short-time working
Contract and statutory issues relating to short-time working, including statutory guarantee and redundancy payments.
Redundancy selection: compulsory
How to fairly select employees for compulsory redundancy.
Redundancy and lay-offs
Contractual and statutory issues for laying off employees, including statutory guarantee and redundancy payments.
Recruiting seasonal staff
As an employer, there are various options available to you to deal with a seasonal rush.
What is redundancy?
Reasons for dismissing staff on the grounds of redundancy.
What counts as earnings
How CMS calculates earnings for the purposes of deduction from earnings orders.
Avoiding redundancies
Alternatives to compulsory redundancy.
Shift work involving Sunday and/or night work
Understand shift systems that can be used to plan Sunday and/or night work and how to design one for your employees.
The redundancy consultation process
Redundancy consultation and other legal obligations during the redundancy process.
Sunday working rules
Understand the rules for employing people to work on Sundays.
Night working rules
Ensuring your employees stay within the night working regulations.
Dismissing employees
Understand the issues around dismissing staff and how to manage the process fairly and correctly.
Unfair dismissal
Reasons that automatically constitute unfair dismissal.
Fair dismissal
You must have a valid reason for dismissing an employee – understand the reasons that constitute a fair dismissal.
Whistleblowing - right of complaint to an industrial tribunal
If an employee is dismissed for making a protected disclosure, they may bring a claim to an employment tribunal.
Whistleblowing - exceptionally serious failures
How workers are protected when reporting an exceptionally serious failure.
Whistleblowing - qualifying disclosures
The types of disclosure that are eligible for protection from dismissal.