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Holidays Over-Time To Address Staff Issues?  With holidays over – for the summer at least – and now, feeling refreshed, this is the perfect time to spend thoughts reviewing aspects of your home arrangements.  “Am I happy with the current domestic and household staffing arrangements?” is the post-holiday issue.  If staff went away with you, perhaps […]

Important Paid Leave Changes On The Way   As the majority of domestic staff are women and many with families, a major change to Paternity  paid leave has now been agreed that may well affect them.  The changes are as follows;  Currently paternity leave can be taken either as 1 week or 2 consecutive weeks of […]

Whiter Than White  There have been several employment tribunal decisions in recent months where it seems that one or two words led to a successful claim of discrimination.  This example, however, shows that words which in one case can cause offence, but in another, can be innocuous and not discriminatory.  A black manager working on […]

Can I Dismiss Staff Off Sick Long-Term? More people are off sick long-term than ever before, with a variety of health conditions, both physical and emotional, including stress and depression. Most recent figures from the Office for National Statistics show another record high, with almost 2.6 million people off work because of illness. The total numbers […]

A  Shaggy Dog Story For Summer Reading There are many reasons for terminating the employment of a carer…medication issues, bad time keeping to name just two, but one recently in the picture was a new development.  Mistreating  the client’s dog. This arose very recently in France and concerns one of the dogs of retired film idol […]

Thought Police Update We previously brought to your attention the case of Maya Forstater who lost out on a job after saying people cannot change their biological sex. We promised to update you on any employment tribunal. At the time we named it the “thought police” case. The history Forstarter had a contract at the […]

Sexist Culture At Work Hits Close To £1 Million Penalty  In line with our policy of bringing employment tribunal results to your attention that stand out from the ordinary, this case marks a new entry into the top awards-the million pound level. It concerns a female former firearms police officer who has been awarded nearly £1million after […]

How The 48 Hour Average  Week Works If you are a long-term employer of domestic staff, you will probably have previously considered how the 48 hours working week affects your working procedures.  On the other hand perhaps you are new or relatively new to the employment of domestic staff, if which case this may well be an […]

Change Is In The Air As an authoritive domestic recruitment agency, we always stress the necessity of providing employees with a contract of employment. But with so many legal changes on the way with some 2000 laws expiring and rewritten,  we thought it useful just to stress some elements of contracts of employment. Obviously the […]

Devout Or In Doubt  In our monitoring of employment tribunals we regularly bring you those which stand out for any number of reasons: awards, dismissals, and those which make you raise your eyebrows. This month’s takes disbelief to a new level!  Many people hold religious beliefs but however devout they may be, it is generally […]