Smoke and mirrors? No Smoke Without Fire… The use of e-cigarettes and vaping has become increasingly popular in the UK, both as an alternative to smoking and helping those to quit smoking altogether. But what does this mean for employers? There are 9 million smokers...
Health and wellbeing in the workplace: Are you doing enough? According to a recent government report, 1 in 4 people in the UK will have mental health problem at some point in life and 1 in 6 workers has a mental health problem right now. Workplace stress and mental...
Top Questions for August 2018 A visual summary of the top questions fielded by DLP Advisers in August 2018. Click image to enlarge Issues related to probationary periods – 23% Issues related to TUPE – 23% Issues related to sickness – 17% Issues...
The Government Rules on Adding Caste as a Protected Status Most of us are aware of the phrase ‘discrimination’ and even the two types. Direct, treating someone less preferably because of certain attributes of who they are; and indirect where practice, criterion or...
Sleeping on the Job? DLP have seen an increase in queries, regarding Carers who sleep at a client’s home, seeking advice on whether they are entitled to minimum wage for these hours ‘worked’. On the 13th July 2018 in the case of MenCap v Tomlinson-Blake, it was held...
Voluntary Overtime and Holiday Pay As we are in holiday season, we have been asked a number of times whether overtime payments should be taken into account when calculating holiday pay. Two recent cases indicate that employees who have been doing mandatory and...
