by Martha Mitchell | Mar 16, 2021 | General Guidance, Parental Issues
For many parents the last 12 months since the outbreak of Covid-19 has meant a real battle between work commitments and childcare needs. With schools shut for many months, parents were forced to home-school and often, whilst keeping on top of their own work. We’ve...
by Martha Mitchell | Mar 8, 2021 | General Guidance
Estate Agency and Lettings HR Headaches with Zoe Conning, Director of Amplo Lettings. On Monday 1 March, Kevin Murphy, Director of Employment Law Solutions sat down with Zoe Conning, Director of Amplo Lettings over Zoom to discuss the Estate Agency and...
by Martha Mitchell | Mar 3, 2021 | General Guidance
Did you know that a request from an employee to change their hours or place of work is a formal flexible working request? What is a flexible working request? Any employee with 26 weeks continuous service has the right to request flexible working. It doesn’t...
by Martha Mitchell | Mar 1, 2021 | General Guidance
WEDNESDAY 31 MARCH 2021 – 10 AM 2021 has got off to a gusty start and probably not the new start to a year that we hoped. Although 2020 was a year we could not have predicted, we have a better feeling about 2021 and are here to help you with a Webinar on our...
by Martha Mitchell | Feb 24, 2021 | General Guidance
When was the last time you read or updated your employees’ contracts? Have you googled ‘Employee contract template’? We know you have. It’s especially important in Estate Agency and Lettings to get the contract right. We’re sorry but a google template won’t cut...
by Jennifer Ormond | Feb 5, 2021 | General Guidance, Tales from the Tribunal
On Monday 1 February 2021 The Times reported that the employment tribunal system is broken. Aside from identifying some issues which may have given rise to an increase in claims in both volume and complexity, it went on to condemn ill-trained and inadequate judges....