A number of businesses could be miscalculating the bank holiday entitlement of part-time workers according to one of Wales’ largest independent law firms, JCP Solicitors.
The warning comes as JCP Solicitors, which has local offices in Swansea, Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, hosts a series of free workshops at their Whitland office at Landsker Business Centre to help local businesses stay ahead of employment law and HR issues.
A redundancy situation is understandably an incredibly emotional and stressful time for those employees involved, however it is also a difficult time for the employers handling the process. We asked Luke Welsh, Employment Law expert at JCP Solicitors, to explain more:
Clare Bowen is the Head of HR Services at JCP Solicitors and through her role, heading up the JCP Employment Protection Scheme, she provides HR support to many of the firm’s clients. In this series of articles, Clare breaks down standard HR procedures into small and manageable bite sized information.
Managing Maternity.
It’s the end of the summer and that means one thing for businesses – It’s time to start putting those finishing touches to the Staff Christmas Party Plans! But beware the Employment Law pitfalls…Clare Bowen, Head of HR Services at JCP Solicitors explains more:
These days many sports professionals’ comments and opinions are easily followed via many social media platforms, particularly Twitter. We asked Paul Shuttleworth, Head of Employment law and member of the Sports Law team at JCP Solicitors to explain more:
The use of Twitter has seen many footballers fined by the FA for criticising referees as well as Kevin Petersen in trouble for questioning the methods of the selectors when dropping him from the England cricket team.
The Government launched a consultation this week on reforming, amongst other things, parental leave and flexible working.
The consultation proposes to provide mothers with an automatic 18 week period of paid leave, then leaving a remaining maximum leave of 34 weeks to be shared out between the mother and father.
Monday 7 February 2011 was “National Sickie Day” where approximately 375,000 employees were predicted to have called in to work sick. This causes an enormous impact on the economy, with business advisers ELAS estimating costs in the region of £32 million as a result of such absenteeism.
From October 2012, employers will have to automatically enrol all eligible employees into the National Employee Savings Trust (NEST), the new name for the Government run pension scheme. Paul Shuttleworth Employment Partner at JCP Solicitors explains more:-
With the World Cup upon us, its effect is starting to be felt by employers and employees throughout Wales.
Leading South Wales law firm, John Collins and Partners Solicitors (JCP), has appointed two new partners to help drive the businesses plans for expansion and growth.
Paul Shuttleworth joins JCP as Partner in the HR and Employment Law team, while Sarah Davies, a solicitor at the firm since 2003, has been promoted to Partner from within JCP’s Dispute Resolution arm.
Steve Penny, Managing Partner at JCP, said:
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