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TUPE and the Big Society

Charities who intend the service to be provided by volunteers may be able to work around the TUPE problem if their existing delivery model is long standing and pre dates the transfer. Continue reading

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Red tape and fairness

This is the fifth in our series of blogs about the ‘Red Tape Reduction’ consultation.  In this blog, we look at ideas about what is fair You don’t have to spend more than 30 years in employee relations and employment … Continue reading

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What I say, or what I mean? Red tape and employment law

This is the fourth in our series of blogs about the ‘Red Tape Reduction’ consultation.  In this blog, we look at the opportunity to simplify legislation Over the last 30 odd years I have seen a number of ‘simplifications’, and … Continue reading

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Simplifying the complex – red tape and employment law

red tape is not so easy to simply when you get away from the knee jerk rhetoric and start doing the thinking needed Continue reading

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Bonfire of the delusion – do we have the power to repeal employment law?

The government has announced more consultation on employment law, this time on TUPE and collective redundancies.  Both sets of legislation derive from EU directives. In our last blog, we looked at whether we are in fact over-regulated and over-legislated. a) … Continue reading

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Free redundancy download

free guide to redundancy for anyone at risk of redundancy in the UK Continue reading

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How many bosses don’t read contracts?

A recent Which? Magazine survey suggested that up to 5.1m British workers have failed to read their employment contract properly. How many bosses don’t read or understand the contracts they are issuing? Which? make some great suggestions about what employees … Continue reading

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Is our organisation structure redundant?

Our organisational structures will soon be redundant before they are published Continue reading

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Strategic redundancy

Naturally, we all seek to avoid redundancy exercises, so they are often done on an ‘emergency’ basis with inadequate time to prepare – and off we go again.

There is a longer term, more strategic way to deal with redundancy.
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Redundancy on the move

This year has brought an inevitable increase in redundancy exercises as organisations of all kinds have cut back to match falling revenues. Continue reading

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