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HR Zone Members Newswire Issue 120
11 October 2005
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1. Adultery: Grounds for constructive dismissal?
2. News in Brief: HR meets Gershon challenge
3. The Couch?! Health, wealth and happiness
4. Any Answers: Status of apprentices, breastfeeding at work
5. Welcome new members
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Editor’s note
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Andrew Monroe recently faced a tricky situation: an employee
refused to work with a colleague because she’d had an affair
with her husband – what course of action is appropriate for the
business? HR Zone invited Nicholas Snowden, senior solicitor at
Clarkslegal LLP and Stephanie Wootton, employment law expert at
Browne Jacobson to present their ideas on the law governing
constructive dismissal. See their answers at:
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/146054

Do you agree with their advice? We’d like to hear your views.

Regards,

Annie Hayes MCIPD
Editor
mailto:editor@hrzone.co.uk

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Welcome new members
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This week, HR Zone welcomes members from the following
organisations, among others, to the site: MVA, Landmarc support
Services, Curo Aeger Ltd, Family Investments, Arab Bank, NHS
Direct, HSBC, Historic Originals Ltd, HM Revenue and Customs and
Thames Valley Housing.

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:

Constructive dismissal?
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Can you discipline someone for an asthma-related sickness? Nik
Kellingley offers some advice.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/146241

Modern apprentices
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Jo receives some advice on their status and rights.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/146237

Are human rights crippling British business?
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Nik Kellingley and Euphrosene Labon get debating.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/146189

How are organisations responding to new legal requirements?
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Croner’s Employee information and consultation management report
looks at the business case for informing and consulting, looks
at the current situation with organisations, presents case
studies highlighting how organisations are responding to the new
legal requirements, and finally, sets out the steps employers
should take to comply with the ICE Regulations.
Click below to download your free executive summary
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/redirects/croner10.html
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Share your views
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Catch-up with the latest questions being asked by the community
and add your answers at:

What are the effects of mobile technologies on HR & work-life
balance? Asks Eleanor Bark.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/146298

Kirsa Edwards is looking for a breastfeeding policy. Can you
help?
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/146171

Why do people rate themselves the way they do? Asks
Carrie Mansfield in relation to self-assessment appraisals.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/146291

Read all the latest questions and add your own:
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/anyanswers

Have you got what it takes to be a top leader?
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Reed Consulting in conjunction with the Institute of Directors
recently surveyed Britain’s top business leaders to identify
what were the critical success factors that differentiate the
most effective 21st Century leaders.
What are the critical factors? Find out in our report.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/redirects/reed2.html
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Members’ corner
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What’s the answer? Adultery: Grounds for constructive dismissal?
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This week Nicholas Snowden, senior solicitor at Clarkslegal LLP
and Stephanie Wootton, employment law expert at Browne Jacobson
present their ideas on the law governing constructive dismissal.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/146054

News in Brief: The week in HR – HR meets Gershon challenge
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An at-a-glance news round up including how HR is meeting the
Gershon challenge head on, reaction to the latest NMW hike and
why red-tape the Dutch way is getting the thumbs up.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/146281

The Couch?! Health, wealth and happiness
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Pekka Niska, of Helsinki, is offering his workers 115 pounds
cash bonuses if they can do more chin-ups than he can –
motivational genius or madness?
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/146272

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