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• Change and Strategy
  • Changing/Harmonising Terms & Conditions
    • Changing T's & C's: Dismiss & Re-engage
    • Changing T's & C's: Getting Consent
    • Changing T's & C's: Imposing Changes
    • Changing T's & C's: TUPE transfers
    • Changing T's and C's: Do We Need Consent?
  • Electing Employee Representatives
  • Redundancy
    • Lay-off and Short-time Working
    • Redundancy: Alternative employment
    • Redundancy: Checklist
    • Redundancy: Consultation
    • Redundancy: Dismissals
    • Redundancy: Meaning
    • Redundancy: Notification
    • Redundancy: Payments
    • Redundancy: Pool of one
    • Redundancy: Pooling & Selection
    • Redundancy: Volunteers
  • TUPE: Outsourcing & Business Transfers
    • TUPE overview: What is it? When does it apply?
    • TUPE: Inform & consult
    • TUPE: T's & c's; transfer of liabilities
    • TUPE: Who transfers & dismissals
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• Coronavirus
  • Coronavirus: FAQs for employers
  • Coronavirus: Homeworking
  • Coronavirus: Workplace Health and Safety
  • Ending Furlough: FAQs for employers
  • Furlough: March - October 2020
  • Furlough: November 2020 - September 2021
  • Job Support Scheme - Closed
  • Job Support Scheme - Open
• Discipline and Problem Solving
  • Dismissals: Key Risks
    • Automatically Unfair Dismissal
    • Dismissals: Key Risks Summary
    • Unfair Dismissal
    • Written Reasons for Dismissal
  • Misconduct
    • Before Disciplinary Action
    • Disciplinary Action: Key Risks
    • Disciplinary Appeals
    • Disciplinary Decisions
    • Disciplinary Hearings
    • Disciplinary Investigations
    • Disciplinary Policy
    • Discipline and Grievance Overlap
    • Discipline: Formal or Informal?
    • Discipline: Keeping Records
    • Discipline: Suspension
    • Misconduct and Gross Misconduct
    • Misconduct Outside of Work
  • Other Reasons for Dismissal
    • Dismissal: Clash of Personalities
    • Dismissal: Damage to Reputation
    • Dismissal: Illegality
    • Dismissal: Lack of Qualifications
    • Dismissal: Loss of Driving Licence
    • Dismissal: Off-duty Impact
    • Dismissal: Off-duty Objections
    • Dismissal: Protect Information
    • Dismissal: Third-party Pressure
    • Summary: Other Dismissals
  • Performance
    • Appraisals
    • Before Managing Performance
    • Ill health and Performance
    • Informal Performance Management Reviews
    • Performance Dismissals
    • Performance Management Appeals
    • Performance Management Meetings
    • Performance Management Warnings
    • Performance: Complaints
    • Performance: Keeping Records
    • Performance: Key Risks
  • Tribunal Claims and ACAS
    • ACAS Early Conciliation
    • Tribunal Awards
    • Tribunal Procedure
• Employee Relations
  • Blacklisting of Trade Unionists
    • Blacklisting: Remedies
    • Blacklisting: What is Prohibited?
  • Collective Bargaining
    • Collective Agreements
    • Collective Bargaining
  • Industrial Action
    • Balloting & Notification Requirements
    • Claims against the Trade Union
    • Industrial Action: Pay, Benefits & Dismissal
    • What is Industrial Action?
  • Information and Consultation
    • Consultation: Health and Safety
    • Consultation: Pension Changes
    • Consultation: Redundancies
    • Consultation: TUPE
    • European Works Councils
    • Information and Consultation Agreement
    • Takeover Code: Inform & Consult
  • Time off for Trade Union Duties
  • Trade Union Recognition
    • Statutory Trade Union Recognition
    • Trade Unions: Derecognition
    • Voluntary Trade Union Recognition
    • What is Union Recognition?
• Equal Opportunities
  • Diversity & Discrimination
    • Age Discrimination
    • Discrimination: Marriage or Civil Partnership
    • Discrimination: Overview
    • Discrimination: Pregnancy / Maternity
    • Gender Reassignment Discrimination
    • Race Discrimination
    • Religion or Belief Discrimination
    • Sex Discrimination
    • Sexual Orientation Discrimination
  • Equal Pay
    • Equal Pay Checks
    • Equal Pay Claims
    • Gender Pay Gap Reporting
    • Justifying Unequal Pay
    • What is Equal Pay?
  • Public Sector Equality Duties
  • Sexual Harassment
• Families
  • Carer's Leave
  • IVF
    • Employees' rights during IVF
  • Parental Leave
    • During Parental Leave: T's and C's
    • Parental Leave: Enhance/Reduce
    • Parental Leave: Entitlement
    • Parental Leave: How Much/When?
    • Parental Leave: Keeping Records
    • Parental Leave: Key Risks
    • Parental Leave: Manage Requests
    • Parental Leave: Right to Return
    • What is Parental Leave?
  • Paternity Leave
    • During Paternity Leave: T's and C's
    • Enhanced Paternity Rights
    • Fathers: Antenatal Appointments
    • Paternity Leave: Duration & Dates
    • Paternity Leave: Entitlement (Adoptions)
    • Paternity Leave: Entitlement (Births)
    • Paternity Leave: Key Risks
    • Paternity Leave: Right to Return
    • Paternity Pay: Administration
    • Paternity Pay: Duration & Dates
    • Paternity Pay: Entitlement (Adoptions)
    • Paternity Pay: Entitlement (Births)
    • Paternity: Miscarriage, Stillbirth, Child's Death
    • Paternity: Support on Return to Work
  • Pregnancy and Maternity
    • Antenatal Appointments
    • During Maternity Leave: T's and C's
    • Enhanced Maternity Pay
    • Maternity Leave: Contact / KIT Days
    • Maternity Leave: Entitlement
    • Maternity Leave: Start and End Dates
    • Maternity Pay: Administration
    • Maternity Pay: Entitlement
    • Maternity: Discipline/Leaving
    • Maternity: Health and Safety
    • Maternity: Key Risks
    • Maternity: Miscarriage, Stillbirth, Child's Death
    • Maternity: Redundancy
    • Maternity: Right to Return and Cover
    • Maternity: Support on Return to Work
    • Pregnancy-related Sickness
  • Shared Parental Leave
    • During Shared Parental Leave: SPLIT Days & Contact
    • During Shared Parental Leave: T's & C's
    • Enhanced Shared Parental Leave & Pay
    • Redundancy During Shared Parental Leave
    • Shared Parental Leave: Adopter 1
    • Shared Parental Leave: Adopter 2
    • Shared Parental Leave: Fathers
    • Shared Parental Leave: How Much is Available?
    • Shared Parental Leave: Key Risks
    • Shared Parental Leave: Mothers
    • Shared Parental Leave: Period of Leave Notice
    • Shared Parental Leave: Return to Work
    • Shared Parental Leave: When Can Leave Be Taken?
    • Shared Parental Pay: Admin
    • Shared Parental Pay: Adopter 1
    • Shared Parental Pay: Adopter 2
    • Shared Parental Pay: Fathers
    • Shared Parental Pay: How much is available?
    • Shared Parental Pay: Mothers
    • What is Shared Parental Leave?
  • Time off for Dependants
    • Time off for Dependants: Policy
    • Time off for Dependants: Rights
    • Time off for Dependants: Risks
• General Knowhow
  • Brexit: employment law
  • Financial Services
  • Glossary
  • Public Sector
  • Statutory Rates
  • What's new?
• Grievance and Whistleblowing
  • Grievance
    • Before Responding to a Grievance
    • Collective Grievances
    • Grievance and Discipline Overlap
    • Grievance Appeals
    • Grievance Decisions
    • Grievance Investigations
    • Grievance Meetings
    • Grievance Policy
    • Grievance: Keeping Records
    • Grievance: Key Risks
    • Grievances from Former Employees
    • Informal Grievances
  • Whistleblowing
    • Protection for Whistleblowers
    • What is Whistleblowing?
    • Whistleblowing Investigations
    • Whistleblowing: Policy & Contracts
    • Whistleblowing: Protected Disclosures
    • Whistleblowing: Qualifying Disclosures
• Leaving
  • Employee Restrictions
    • Employee Restrictions: Enforcing
    • Employee Restrictions: Types
    • Employee Restrictions: What is Enforceable?
    • Garden Leave
  • Notice
    • Does notice need to be accepted?
    • Effective notice & the date of termination
    • Holidays and notice
    • How much notice?
    • Pay during the notice period
    • Pay in lieu of notice
    • The requirement to give notice
    • What happens if notice isn't given?
  • References
    • Giving References
    • Regulatory References
  • Resignation
    • Constructive Dismissal
    • Effective Resignation
    • Next Steps after a Resignation
    • Resignation: Acceptance & Withdrawal
    • Resignation: In the Heat of the Moment
    • Resigning without proper notice
    • When Resignation is a Dismissal
  • Retirement
    • Compulsory Retirement
    • No Fixed Retirement Age
    • Retirement Ages
    • Retirement: Employee Benefits
    • Retirement: Performance
    • Voluntary Retirement
  • Settlement Agreements
    • Draft a Settlement Agreement
    • Settlement Discussions
    • Settlement: Off the Record?
    • Settlement: The Best Route?
• News
• Pay and Reward
  • Bonus Schemes
  • Deductions From Pay
    • Making Deductions from Wages: FAQs
    • Unlawful Deduction from Wages Claims
  • Employee Benefits
  • Minimum Wage
    • Minimum wage records, offences & claims
    • Minimum wage: calculating hours
    • Minimum wage: calculating total pay
    • Minimum wage: hourly rates
    • National minimum wage rates
    • On-call and sleep-in workers: NMW
    • Who is entitled to minimum wage?
  • Overtime
  • Pensions
  • Tax and Employment
    • IR35 and the off-payroll working rules
    • Tax on Termination Payments
    • Tax on Tribunal Awards
    • Tax: Employees, Consultants and others
• Privacy notice
• Resourcing
  • Agency Workers
    • Agency Workers: Equal Treatment
    • Agency Workers: Key Risks
    • Agency Workers: Summary
  • Apprentices
    • Apprenticeship Contracts
    • Apprenticeship Levy and Digital Accounts
    • Apprenticeship Training
    • Terminating Apprenticeships
    • What is an Apprentice?
  • Contracts
    • Consultancy Agreements
    • Contingent Labour
    • Contracts of Employment
    • Employment Status
    • Section 1 statements
  • Employee Shareholders
  • Fixed-Term Employees
    • Ending Fixed-Term Contracts
    • Extending Fixed-Term Contracts
    • Rights for Fixed-Term Employees
    • Using Fixed-Term Contracts
  • Flexible Working
    • Annualised Hours
    • Flexible Working: Accepting
    • Flexible Working: Appeals
    • Flexible Working: Key Risks
    • Flexible Working: Policies
    • Flexible Working: Prioritising Requests
    • Flexible Working: Refusing
    • Flexible Working: Responding
    • Homeworking
    • Job sharing
    • Part-Time Workers
    • Right to Request Flexible Working
  • Immigration
    • Checking the Right to Work in the UK
    • EU Settlement Scheme
    • Indefinite leave to remain & citizenship
    • Sponsor licences
    • The UK points-based immigration system
  • Recruitment
    • 10-step recruitment process
    • Application forms
    • Asking for References
    • Equal opportunities monitoring
    • Induction
    • Interviews
    • Job adverts
    • Job description & person specification
    • Making a job offer
    • Positive discrimination?
    • Pre-employment checks
    • Probationary Periods
    • Recruitment: Keeping records
    • Recruitment: Key risks
    • Shortlisting and tests
  • Relocation
  • Secondment
  • Volunteers
  • Zero Hours / Casual Workers
• Setting Standards at Work
  • Adverse Weather & Travel Disruption
  • Bribery
    • Minimising Risk of Bribery
    • What is Bribery?
  • Bullying and Harassment
    • Bullying & Harassment
  • Christmas Parties and Social Events
  • Data Protection
    • Data Protection Impact Assessments
    • Data Protection Officers
    • Data Protection: Criminal Offence Data
    • Data Protection: Document Retention
    • Data Protection: Health Information
    • Data Protection: Privacy Notices & Policies
    • Employee Monitoring
    • Processing staff data
    • Subject Access Requests
    • What data do we need to protect?
  • Dress Codes and Appearance
    • Dress Codes
  • Email, Internet and Social Media
    • Client Contact Lists & Termination
    • Email, Internet & Social Media: Discipline
    • Email, Internet & Social Media: Key Risks
    • Email, Internet & Social Media: Policies
  • Health and Safety at Work
    • Health & Safety: Consultation
    • Health & Safety: Disability
    • Health & Safety: Enforcement
    • Health & Safety: Homeworking
    • Health & Safety: Incidents
    • Health & Safety: Maternity
    • Health & Safety: Obligations
    • Health & Safety: Policies
    • Health & Safety: Risk Assessments
    • Health & Safety: Working Time
  • Intellectual Property
    • Confidential Information
    • Enforcing Intellectual Property Protection
    • Protecting Intellectual Property
    • Types of Intellectual Property
  • Policies
    • Amending Policies
    • Contractual Policies
    • Making a Policy Non-Contractual
    • Written Policies
• Sickness, Absence and Disability
  • Disability at Work
    • Disability Discrimination Claims
    • Disability: Dismissals
    • Disability: Meaning
    • Disability: Protection/Support
    • Disability: Reasonable Adjustments
  • Menopause at work
  • Sickness and Absence
    • Absence: Keeping Records
    • Absence: Return to Work Meetings
    • Before Managing Absence
    • Fit Notes and 'Fit for Work'
    • Long-Term Absence
    • Medical Reports
    • Mental health
    • PHI and Ill Health Retirement
    • Related Short-Term Absence
    • Sick Pay
    • Sickness and Absence: Disability
    • Sickness and Absence: FAQs
    • Sickness and Absence: Holidays
    • Sickness and Absence: Key Risks
    • Stress at work
    • Suspension on Medical Grounds
    • Types of Sickness and Absence
    • Unrelated Short-Term Absence
• Sign-up for Workbox by Brodies
• Templates
• Terms of use
• Time at Work and Time Off
  • Career Breaks
  • Compassionate Leave
  • Holidays
    • At what rate do holidays accrue?
    • Drafting Holiday Clauses
    • Holiday Pay
    • Holidays and Sickness Absence
    • Holidays: Atypical Workers
    • Holidays: Discrimination Risks
    • Holidays: Family Leave
    • Holidays: Part-Time Workers
    • Public Holidays
    • Taking Holidays: Notice
    • The right to paid holiday
    • When can holidays be taken?
  • Parental Bereavement Leave & Pay
  • Public Duties / Jury Service
    • Jury Service
    • Time Off for Public Duties
  • Sunday working
  • Time off for Reservists
  • Time off for Study or Training
    • Study/Training Time Off: 16/17 Year Olds
    • Time off for Study or Training: Overview
    • Time off for Study or Training: Process
    • Time off for Study or Training: Rights
  • Working Hours and Rest Breaks
    • 48-Hour Working Week
    • Compensatory Rest
    • Complaints about Working Time
    • Modifying the Regulations
    • Night Work
    • Recording Working Time
    • Rest Periods and Rest Breaks
    • The Working Time Regulations 1998
    • Working Time Exemptions
• Train your Team
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