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HR should help workplace problems move towards a fair, lawful decision. But when procedure becomes containment, employees can experience the function as a dam: absorbing grievances, controlling information and building bureaucracy while the underlying pressure
Employers have considerable control over when annual leave is taken, but that control is not unlimited. Christmas leave, childcare, emergencies, medical appointments and disability-related absences can all engage different legal rights. Describing everything a
The deadline for most employment tribunal claims increases to six months minus one day from 1 October. The change depends on when the relevant workplace event happened, so an existing dispute does not automatically gain another three months.
NHS England has told trusts to act immediately when staff are suspected of accessing patient records without a legitimate reason. But the crackdown raises another question: how would a patient know that somebody had looked?