The time off for dependents legislation entitles all employees to take a reasonable amount of time off work for a variety of sudden or unexpected events that affect someone who is dependent on the individual
Time Off For Dependents
Carry Over Of Holiday And Long Term Sickness
The relationship between workers’ rights, their holiday and how those rights are affected by sickness absence has been a much debated subject in recent years. A particular issue has been to what extent a worker on long-term sick leave, who has been unable to take holiday due to sickness, is entitled to carry forward accrued but untaken holiday to the following leave year.
Death of an Employee: A Practical Guide for SME Employers
The death of an employee is a situation most SME employers will encounter only rarely. This practical guide explains the immediate steps employers should take, how to support colleagues, manage payroll and employment matters, and deal with the wider workplace implications.
Workers Are Entitled To Take Annual Leave When Off Sick
The Court of Appeal has ruled that workers are entitled to take annual leave when off sick and claim payment in lieu when their employment terminates
Record Disability Discrimination Payout for Welsh firm Jewson
Record Disability Discrimination Payout for Welsh firm Jewson, Jonathan Jones had been employed by Jewson for 22 years as a branch manager when he suffered a stroke and was dismissed due to ill health.
Dismissal decision is a managerial one, not a medical one
Overturning a tribunal’s finding of unfair dismissal, the EAT has held that an employer had properly decided on the basis of the evidence available to it, which included a report from occupational health and a clinical psychologist, that an employee was not fit to return to his stressful managerial role. His dismissal for ‘capability’ (or rather the lack of it) was fair. The EAT reiterated that the decision to dismiss an employee is a managerial one and not a medical one. An employer should make its own assessment of the risk to an employee’s health from returning to work.
Suspected Unauthorised Absence
An ET held that the heavy-handed way in which a manager dealt with suspected unauthorised absence entitled the employee to resign and claim unfair dismissal
Holiday Pay and Sick Leave
Employers can defeat claims for more than one year’s holiday pay from sick employees by making a payment covering their most recent leave year
