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Employment Law March 2019 Welcome to our March 2019 e-bulletin. It is not too late to book a space on one of our popular Essential Employment Law seminars running in both our Edinburgh and Glasgow offices - see below for details on how to book. Our 2019/20 Employment Law Fact Card is out soon. If this is usually sent to your home address and you haven't subscribed since 25 May (GDPR day!) then please confirm to employment@mortonfraser.com if you still want to receive this. If your Fact Card is sent to your business address then no action is required and it will be sent out as usual. This month we are also looking at:Preview of April changes - we look at changes to Tribunal limits, NMW, statutory payments and the new legislation coming into force in the busiest employment law month of the year. Gender Pay Gap Countdown - just over a month to go! Is there an obligation on employers to keep a record of ordinary working time? New legislation, consultations and guidance. Can an employee claim religious discrimination on the grounds of beliefs held by their employer? Workplace wellbeing. Our regular round up of employment law in the news. And In our Blog of the Month we look at what rights employees have if they think they are not being paid properly. You can download our free Employment Law App MF HR Mobile for both Android and iPhone. This includes calculators for unfair dismissal awards, maternity pay and statutory redundancy payments, as well as key employment law facts, figures and fingertip guides. It also includes this monthly eBulletin. If you have any questions on the content of this ebulletin or if you would like to discuss any other employment issue then please contact innes.clark@morton-fraser.com on 0131 247 1181 or lindsey.cartwright@morton-fraser.com on 0141 274 1141.
Essential Employment Law Seminar - Managing Difficult Employees plus Registering EU Nationals We will be running our latest Essential Employment Law Seminar in both our Edinburgh and Glasgow offices this month. This seminar will focus on managing difficult employees and we will look at our top five tricky scenarios from an employment law perspective that can arise when dealing with a difficult employee including how to manage an employee with a bad attitude that otherwise performs their role satisfactory, how to deal with an employee who has a pattern of performance which improves after a warning and then dips after that warning has expired and how to deal with the situation where an employee goes off sick with stress when you are dealing with a disciplinary or grievance issue. In addition, with Brexit coming ever closer we will also look briefly at what is involved in registering EU national employees to protect their right to work.The dates for the seminar are:• 12 March at 8.30am in our Glasgow office; and • 13 March at 5.30pm in our Edinburgh office. The seminar will last approximately one hour, including questions and answers, with an opportunity for networking before and after. Registration will take place from 5:00pm for a 5:30pm start for the evening seminar in Edinburgh and 8:00am for an 8:30am start for the breakfast
seminar in Glasgow. Please click on the links above to book.
April 2019 employment law changes We preview the key changes due to take place in April. Read More
Gender Pay Gap Countdown 4 April 2019 sees the end of the second year of gender pay gap reporting for private and third sector organisations.
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Working time - keeping records of hours worked What does the recent opinion from an Advocate General on keeping records of hours worked under the Working Time Directive mean for UK employers?
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New Legislation, Guidance & Consultations We look at recently published guidance on various employment law related issues.
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Religious discrimination - whose belief is it anyway? The EAT follows the "gay cake case" in finding that there is no discrimination against a claimant when the religious beliefs being breached are those of the employer.
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Workplace wellbeing We continue our look at mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.
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Employment law in the news In our regular slot we look at the employment law issues that have made the news headlines over the past few weeks.
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Blog of the Month Don't forget, you can keep up to date with all our blogs and content in the Knowledge hub. In our blog of the month this month Kate Sutherland looks at what rights employees have if they think they are not being paid properly. You can also follow Innes on Twitter.
Welcome To Clarity: Diversity Diversity is a vital consideration for any employer. Employees should be afforded equal treatment and opportunity irrespective of protected characteristics such as race, gender, age and disability. This short film helps explain the importance of diversity in the workplace and how it not only affects your business’s reputation as a fair employer, but can allow you to reap the benefits as a more productive and more positive workforce.
Employment Law Guide & Employment Timeline To see our Brief Guide to Employment Law in Scotland, England and Wales, click here. For details of upcoming changes in employment law, see our Updated Employment Law Reform Timeline.
Employment Law Fact Card
Our 2019/20 Employment Law Fact Card will soon be available. If you aren’t already on our mailing list and would like a copy of our free Fact Card please email us at employment@mortonfraser.com with your name and postal address and we will send it on to you. If this is usually sent to your home address and you haven't subscribed since 25 May (GDPR day!) then please confirm to employment@morton-fraser.com if you still want to receive this. If your Fact Card is sent to your business address then no action is required and it will be sent out as usual. Our Employment Law Fact Card is full of useful information for employers including disciplinary and redundancy checklists, Employment Tribunal award limits, family friendly leave entitlements and national minimum wage rates. You can also find lots of useful employment law information on our free iPhone app which is available to download from the App Store. For further details and a link to the download see: MF HR Mobile - Our Employment Law App "...the app is gorgeous, very well designed with great functionality and looks." - Legal IT Insider (www.legaltechnology.com)
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Employment Protection Package Our Employment Protection Package includes: An annual review to ensure that your employment contracts and handbook are fully compliant; On-going access to one of our employment lawyers within our highly rated employment law team; Insurance cover against the risk of most Employment Tribunal awards; and Affordable monthly fixed fee payments. With the possibility of significant Tribunal awards, management time is often diverted from the core business to deal with workplace issues and claims. We can provide the day to day employment advice that you require whilst providing insurance against the risk of Employment Tribunal claims. You will be assigned a specialist employment lawyer dedicated to your organisation, someone you can work with and who can really get to know you and your business. We do not want to try and tie your organisation into this package for any fixed period of time and you are free to end the contract at any time. Our advice is legally privileged. This is often not the case with other advisors even if they are labelled as "Legal Advisors". In the event that advice is not legally privileged then the advice that you have been given is admissible as evidence before the Employment Tribunal which may put you at a disadvantage in contentious matters. You may want to think about that if you are considering a different kind of package.
Our costs will always be clear and that is guaranteed. Payment for our Employment Protection Package is made by way of affordable monthly fixed fee payments. For a no obligation quote please email the following information to us at employment@mortonfraser.com current headcount total Annual Wage roll during last 12 months (inclusive of Employer's NI, the costs paid to Workers, Bonuses and Salaries paid to Directors) details of any employment tribunal claims against your organisation in the last 5 years including the relevant dates. If this package does not sound quite right for your organisation, we would be pleased to discuss the other options available for employment law advice. For further information please contact Innes Clark on 0131 247 1181 or at innes.clark@mortonfraser.com.
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