Trustpilot
Welcome to Simply-Docs

Category : Employment

Court of Appeal Ruling on Enhanced Maternity Pay and Shared Parental Leave

Employment
on July 12, 2019
by Employment Team
In May of this year, the Court of Appeal delivered an important decision for employers who enhance maternity pay but do not mirror that enhancement for employees taking shared parental leave.The current legal position is that it is up to employers to decide whether or not to enhance contractual pay to employees on shared parenta ... Continue reading

Key Points on the Government's Good Work Plan

Employment
on January 22, 2019
by Employment Team
At the end of 2018, the Government published details of its Good Work Plan, setting out its plans to introduce a number of reforms designed to improve protection for agency workers, zero hours workers, and others with atypical working arrangements.The Good Work Plan is the Government’s considered response to Matthew Taylor’s rep ... Continue reading

Elective and Cosmetic Surgery and Your Employment Policies

Employment
on December 04, 2018
by Employment Team
In November, we updated our Sickness and Absence Policy to include a section on elective and cosmetic surgery.For these purposes, cosmetic surgery may be defined as surgery which is intended to improve a person’s appearance rather than their health. Elective surgery, on the other hand, refers to any surgery that is scheduled in ... Continue reading

Employed vs. Self-Employed - Can You Spot the Difference?

Employment , Business
on November 01, 2018
by Employment Team
A self-employed/independent contractor working arrangement has considerable attractions for both the employer and the self-employed worker, but it can be difficult definitively to identify the difference between employed and self-employed status.HMRC provides helpful guidance that employers and workers can use to determine if an ... Continue reading

A Tough Gig?

Business , Employment
on December 06, 2017
by Business Team
Time to deliveroo some über-important rights to gig economy workers?Many of us have been there. You whip out your smartphone to book a taxi to take you home and, on the way, you order up a tasty takeaway to be sped to your house in a large box strapped the back of a student riding a bicycle. It’s convenient to be sure, but many ... Continue reading

Is Politics in the Workplace Giving You a Headache?

Employment , Business
on May 22, 2017
by Employment Team
Just when you thought you’d seen enough emotively divisive politics to last a lifetime, with the election of President Trump following hot on the heels of the Brexit referendum; along comes a general election just to make sure that peoples’ conversations don’t stray to anything quite so mundane as the weather and the weekend’s f ... Continue reading

Zeroing in on Zero Hours Contracts?

Employment , Business
on May 19, 2017
by Employment Team
According to the Office for National Statistics, over 900,000 employees in Britain are currently employed on zero-hours employment contracts. Zero-hours contracts often crop up in the news, and it’s fair to say that they’ve gotten something of a bad name – often not without good reason. Particularly with the rise of the gig econ ... Continue reading

Could Becoming a Freelancer Be the Correct Career Choice for You?

Business , Employment
on September 16, 2016
by Business Team
The freedom to pick and choose how, when and where you work are some of the big advantages of becoming a freelancer, and it can be tempting to jump right into the world of self-employment for these very reasons.However, if you’re not fully prepared for the implications of freelancing, you could be surprised by many of the challe ... Continue reading

Could Flexible Working Hours Make Your Business More Profitable?

Business , Employment
on August 01, 2016
by Business Team
Flexible working is an increasingly popular trend, fuelled by changing social dynamics and the ability for many professionals to carry out their work from virtually any location with a Wi-Fi signal. It refers both to flexible patterns of work as well as to the choice of working remotely from home or elsewhere.Flexible working is ... Continue reading

When Will the Gender Pay Gap Close?

Employment
on May 25, 2016
by Employment Team
Technological innovation, accumulation of capital, and productivity are three of the most important factors that determine a country’s long-term economic growth. What underpins all of these, though, is the contribution made by people in the collective form of the labour force.But what if half of this workforce were not being uti ... Continue reading

Recent Posts

Categories

Archives

- 2024
+ 2023
+ 2022
+ 2021
+ 2020
+ 2019
+ 2018
+ 2017
+ 2016
+ 2015
+ 2014
+ 2013

Authors

Simply-4-Business Ltd Registered in England and Wales No. 4868909 Unit 100, Parkway House, Sheen Lane, London SW14 8LS

Trustpilot
Top