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We hope you’ve found our new format e-bulletin interesting and have had a chance to look at our new website. If you haven’t please do and let us have your feedback.
This month, we’re looking at the new right to request time off for training, the documentation you need to check when taking on new recruits, details of a recent case regarding holiday entitlement, changes to time off for new fathers and news of the Diamond Jubilee weekend in 2012.
As ever, your feedback is always appreciated so please do let us know if there’s anything else you would like to see in our e-Bulletin.
Kind regards,
Angela
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Right To Time Off For Training
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From April 2010, some employees will be granted the right to request time off to train, operating on the same principles as the right to request flexible working.
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New Rules on ID Cards
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National ID cards issued under the Identity Cards Act 2006 can now be provided by employees as proof of eligibility to work in the United Kingdom.
Click here for the full information.
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Clarity on Holiday Entitlement
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Following a new ruling from the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT), employees are required to follow the Company’s rules with regard to their holiday entitlement or lose it.
Click here for details of the ruling.
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Increase to Paternity Leave
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Under new rules, fathers will be given the legal right to take the place of the mother during the last three months of paid maternity leave and to then take a further three months’ unpaid leave.
Click here for the full article
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Extra Bank Holiday – 5th June 2012
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The Government has announced the creation of a Diamond Jubilee weekend in 2012. The late May bank holiday will be moved to Monday, 4th June and an extra bank holiday on Tuesday, 5th June will be added as part of the celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
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In Closing
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As always, I love to receive your feedback and I'd be especially grateful if you could let me know what you think of our new e-Bulletin layout and our new website. You can drop me an email via angela@crispinrhodes.co.uk or give me a call directly on 01908 230969. Also, don't forget you can download our new Desktop Guide to HR completely free of charge.
Lastly, please could I ask you to use the link below to forward this email onto anyone you think would benefit from keeping abreast of the latest changes to HR law? (And if you've been forwarded this email, you can subscribe to receive it every month by emailing or visiting our website)
Thank you once again, and for now I wish you all the best.
Kind regards,
Angela Rhodes
Crispin Rhodes Ltd
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About Us
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Crispin Rhodes is a specialist human resources company that offers a wide range of cost effective HR services, tailored to the needs of small and medium size businesses.
We provide advice and tailored service packages embracing recruitment, HR policies and procedures, discipline and grievance, sickness, terms and conditions of employment, maternity, paternity and adoption, redundancy, psychometric testing and one to one personal development.
If you’re worried about a HR problem in your business or simply need someone to point you in the right direction, drop us an email or give us a call. Our contact details are at the bottom of this email.
And remember - No company that has followed Crispin Rhodes’ advice has ever successfully been taken to a tribunal or has ever fallen foul of any HR-related legal minefield!
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Your Questions Answered
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Q: We want to change the date on which we pay employee salaries from the 15th of the month to the 28th of the month. What do we have to do?
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A: Changing the date of payment of employee salaries will amount to a fundamental change to the employees’ terms and conditions of employment. As such, the change will need to be agreed with the employees concerned before it can be implemented...
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Tel 01908 230969 - Fax 01908 607533 - Free HR Resources - Newsletter Archive - Contact Us
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Crispin Rhodes Ltd, 4 Aldrich Drive, Willen, Milton Keynes, MK15 9JH - VAT Reg No: 690381621
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Crispin Rhodes Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 3336715
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