“Hybrid” working is where employees or workers are not based either full time in the office or full time remotely but a mixture of both. It has gained in popularity following the lockdown, when businesses and employees realised that flexible working was a real possibility…
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18 Oct Upcoming events
We are now hosting client HR breakfast briefings for any Managers or HR Managers who would like to share issues and ask questions and in advance to explore. If you are interested in attending these breakfast sessions, please do email us here: admin@bridgeehr.co.uk
18 Oct Government consultation on removal of employee post termination restrictions
During 2020, the BEIS opened a consultation on the proposed reform of post-termination non-compete clauses in employment contracts or, as we call them, restrictive covenants. That consultation closed earlier this year and now proposes a number of possible changes, highlighted below: What are restrictive covenants?…
18 Oct Case Review – Shipp v City Spring UK Ltd – Redundancy during maternity leave
A Marketing Director who was dismissed whilst on maternity leave, when she refused to take a lesser role with a pay cut after a restructure where colleagues received no such pay cut, was successfully found to have been discriminated against. Ms Shipp was a senior…
18 Oct Managing employee social media issues in the workplace
Social media has become an innate part of everyday life for many, with employers often struggling to know how best to manage the need to protect their businesses with their staff’s right to “post” opinions and content on their own private media with employees posting…
18 Oct BRIDGE is in the Legal 500
We are pleased and proud to confirm that our team, and particularly our two Directors, Lee Stephens and Lee Whiting, are named and recommended in the UK Legal 500. This is a great testament to the hard work of our team. The Legal 500 requires…
18 Oct Morrisons refuse to pay full sick pay to non-vaccinated staff
As a method to encourage vaccination, reduce the risks of transmission and resulting staff absence though isolation and to save the huge sick pay costs incurred by Morrisons, they have implemented a change to terms whereby they will not pay full sick pay to those…
18 Oct ‘Fire and re-hire’ – what does it mean and how can it help employers?
“Fire and Re-hire” as a concept have become buzz words of the pandemic and the use of this tactic has been challenged by Unions and employees, most notably in some high-profile disputes reported in the press, such as BA and British Gas, both of which…
05 Oct Some Useful Tips On Dealing with Self-Isolation in the Workplace
Rules on self-isolation have changed, as we set out in our Blog post of 11th August: https://blog.bridgeehr.co.uk/articles/what-do-employers-need-to-know-about-the-changes-to-self-isolation-rules To recap, from 16th August: The following with apply to those who are under 18 years and 6 months old or who are fully vaccinated (both doses plus…
27 Sep Employer Found to have Unfairly Dismissed and Discriminated After Failing to Consider Asthma-Related Absences
In this recent case, the employer was aware of the health condition (that did in this case amount to a disability under the Equality Act 2010) of their teacher, being asthmatic that was present from 2013. The employee in question subsequently had numerous asthma-related absences…