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17,000 Care Home Residents Must Wait And See…..

As one of Britain’s largest care home groups goes into administration, residents are awaiting the outcome. Four Seasons provides care accommodation for 17,000 residents and patients and employs some 20,000 staff. At the beginning of May, two of the holding companies behind Four Seasons appointed administrators as...

10 May, 2019

Major Compensation Changes You Should Be Aware Of

Major Compensation Changes You should be aware of...

26 April, 2019

The Hidden Dangers Of Finding A Domestic/Household Staff Replacement Through Recommendation

The Hidden Dangers Of Finding A Domestic/Household Staff Replacement Through Reccommendation. It sounds a good idea, a simple solution to the problem. Your trusted domestic/household staff member is leaving and you need a replacement, what could be easier than asking them to recommend a friend? Or,...

26 April, 2019

Shared Parental Leave May Be Extended To Grandparents…

If you are mother, or father, or could be in the future, this month, May 2019, there are some developments which may interest you. The government is taking the first steps to further extending the shared parental leave option. It is due to publish its first...

24 April, 2019

If You Are Told ‘You Are Too Old For Your Job’ – Better Read This..

If You Are Told 'You Are Too Old For Your Job' - Better Read This.. If you are told “Sorry, but you are too old for your domestic/household job now. We have listened to your colleagues and they agree” and you are then handed your cards,...

18 April, 2019

Will Shared Parental Leave Be Extended To Grandparents…..?

This month, May 2019, the government is set to publish its first consultation on the extension of shared parental leave to grandparents . At the present time the right to shared parental leave is limited to the mother’s partner, the child’s father, or the mother’s partner...

16 April, 2019

Two Major Compensation Changes You Should Be Aware Of

There are some important changes to compensation awards that employment tribunals can apply recently. The following two came into effect from April 6th this year (2019) The bands of compensation that employment tribunals can award for injury to feelings in discrimination cases (known as Vento bands) have...

12 April, 2019

Too Old For The Job…. Better Think Again

If you reach the stage where you, as an employer of domestic staff, may consider an employee is too old for the job they are doing, you need to tread carefully. Listening to the comments of colleagues of “she/he is getting a bit frail nowadays” and...

12 April, 2019

When A Boss Tries To Cover Up – Know Your Rights.

As a domestic staff worker, you work in the home of your employer and the hope is that everyone respects you. But regrettably there maybe the occasion when you are not respected and some advances are made to you. Of course this should never happen, but...

25 March, 2019

If You Feel Unfairly Dismissed, A Tribunal Can Now Award You More

We have told you before that Employment Tribunal Fees have been removed, leaving you free to take a former employer to an Employment Tribunal if you feel you were unfairly dismissed. Now if the dismissal happens in the future the amount that it is possible to...