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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.
Dismissals on capability grounds
Ensuring that you dismiss fairly when an employee is incapable of doing their job properly or commits some form of misconduct.
Dismissals on conduct grounds
Taking action against employees involved in incidents of misconduct.
Whistleblowing and dismissal
Protection from dismissal or detrimental treatment for workers who disclose a suspected relevant failure at work.
Dismissal due to illness
How to handle dismissing an employee due to long-term ill health.
Types of dismissal
The different types of dismissal and unfair dismissal claims.
If a Reservist employee is called up for service
Employers' rights and responsibilities during and after Reservist mobilisation.
Reservists: mobilisation and initial call-out procedure
How Reservists are mobilised for full-time service with the Armed Forces.