Staff not returning after Maternity Leave

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 After discussions with a member of staff who was due to return to work on 1st October.  She has written today to say she will not be returning to her original role as she cannot work the full time hours. She has also declined to take up a further role offered to her on reduced hours.  I understand that […]

AFC contact – change of base

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I work for a large NHS organistion. We have just gone through a relocatation consulation exercise as there is to be a move to another building in London for some colleagues and Sussex for other colleagues. A collegue has been told he is to move to Sussex. He is not happy with this. He says as […]

FMLA Question

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I have a question I hope someone can give me some guidance.  I had an employee who was out on FMLA for pregnancy earlier this year and used all of her time 480 hours.  Now she is saying that her husband is ill and needs her help with care.  Is she allowed to have another […]

How to create accommodation policy for staff 100 miles away

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Hello Everyone, I was been asked to formulate Accommodation policy for our employees who are 100 miles away from the work location given by the employer as a benefit to its employees. Would appreciate your valuable points and suggestions in formulating the policy. Thanking you NM

Moving from permanent to fixed-term contract

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I have been working for my current employer for 10 years.  I recently applied for a position which will allow me to progress but is only for 2 years fixed term.  My manager will not allow me to do this on secondment therefore I will need to resign my current permanent post for this position […]

Holiday pay during probationary period

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What is the minimul legal amount of holiday pay that an employee is entitled to during his/her probationary period? I've been trying to get this answered for quite some time now. An employee is entitled to take holidays from the first day of employment but will the holiday pay-rate be less than that of the […]

LTS Redundancy

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We have an employee who has been off since july lts. Werecently started a redundancy process and he was invited to 2 consultation meetings which he did not attend or did not give a reason why, we cannot contact him by phone. The selection process has been completed and by the end of this wk […]

Distribution of Policies & Procedures

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Within our company we have approx 600 permanent staff with access to PC's and the intranet. This leaves approx 400 permanent staff with no access to PC's. In addition we have approx 2000 casual staff without PC's, eg: catering and security staff. We are in the process of reviewing/rewriting our policies and procedures which we […]