Witness Competency in Workplace Investigations Can we rely upon an elderly service user’s evidence accusing a Care Support Worker of theft (or abuse) when we know the service user is often confused and mistaken? In the normal course of HR, potential disciplinary...
Sleep-in Shifts and the National Minimum Wage Care providers should review their rules regarding sleep-in shifts and National Minimum Wage regulations. Recent case law has highlighted failures by several employers to fail to meet the National Minimum Wage (or National...
HR Policies and Procedures Procedures are procedures right? You don’t have a choice. Just get the correct form out of the filling cabinet and plod on? Wrong. We are finding all too often HR Managers are starting processes that are not only handled badly but which,...
Enhanced Statutory Payments in the Third Sector A question many of our charity sector clients face is the challenge of enhanced legal or statutory payments made with charitable or restricted funds. Obviously, the temptation to offer enhanced voluntary redundancy or...
