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HR Zone Members Newswire Issue 108
19 July 2005
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1. Maternity – enough support?
2. HR Practitioner’s Diary: Finding strength
3. HR Tip: Failure to attend a disciplinary hearing
4. News in Brief: The week in HR
5. Any Answers: leave for kidney donor, religious discrimination
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Editor’s note
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Maternity wards have received an ear-bashing this week for poor
conditions, bad management and staff shortages. And for
expectant mothers the support needed in the workplace looks
short at hand too.
Gillian Mackie highlights just one example of an employee who
took her right to additional maternity leave only to discover
that her company had closed and moved location.
Does she have any recourse for action? Are you of the Peter
Stanway ‘so what?’ school of thought or do you advocate Quentin
Colborn’s viewpoint that this is a clear case of unfair
dismissal? Have your say on whether poor maternity practice
should be rooted out.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/143302
Regards,
Annie Hayes
Editor
mailto:editor@hrzone.co.uk
Welcome new members
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This week, HR Zone welcomes members from the following
organisations, among others, to the site:
NHS; Peninsula; Network Rail; Thames Accord; Rubicon; Johnson
Cleaners UK Limited; Accenture; PA Consulting Group; Honeywell
Building Solutions; Carlsberg UK Ltd; JSB Training and
Development; Exemplas; City and Guilds; Aurora; AstraZeneca;
Danapak Flexibles Ltd; London Borough of Ealing; Scottish Fuels;
Lloydspharmacy; Active Tots; HSBC; Mirror Group Newspapers
A bad back could cost you more than you think.
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costing British industry billions of pounds. By educating your
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Any Answers Answered
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Catch up on the latest answers supplied by members at ‘Any
Answers’ and reflect on the issues at hand:
Religious discrimination?
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See members’ advice on whether a flippant remark at Helen
Oster’s recent interview counts as religious discrimination.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/143162
Aggravated condition due to job
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Read Keith Luxon’s response on what do when a job exacerbates a
medical condition.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/143317
Leave for kidney donor
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Members’ exchanges on how to handle an application for
compassionate leave (with pay) for a voluntary kidney donor.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/142965
Share your views
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Catch-up with the latest questions being asked by the community
and add your answers at:
Do we pay accrued holiday in the case of a breached contract?
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/143277
Part-time issues: if a meeting is scheduled outside working
hours can they force me to go?
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/143269
How can Clive and his colleagues recover pay and associated
benefits if their business closes?
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/143161
Read all the latest questions and add your own:
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/anyanswers
Members’ corner
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News in Brief: The week in HR
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Catch up on the week in HR including age discrimination changes,
HR BBC chief pay revealed, stress blamed for public sector sky-
high absence, UK’s first leadership degree, employees too busy
to holiday and Employment Tribunal fall questioned.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/143281
HR Practitioner’s Diary: Finding strength
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The events in London have brought human instinct to the fore and
I have spent some time reflecting on this wonderful trait of
humanity – giving as opposed to receiving.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/143231
HR Tip: Failure to attend a disciplinary hearing
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One of our employees was given a letter summoning him to a
formal disciplinary hearing but he has not turned up for work
since. What should we do?
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/143118
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