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When your housekeeper or other domestic staff employee has an illness, it’s often easy to see and you can raise the issue if and when needed. But when the problem is a mental health condition, how can you tell? Well, in truth, unless you see a deterioration...

27 November, 2018

Look how lucky you could be! Do you feel lucky today ? well you could if you just pick up the phone. There are over 160,000 workers in the UK who feel they are lucky to have their wage boosted to £10.55 per hour in London and...

08 November, 2018

If you suddenly find CCTV cameras where you are working as a housekeeper, do you have the right to know in advance and what the images are used for? The answer is yes to both questions and your right are laid out by the government. It’s...

06 November, 2018

All national minimum wage rates are set to rise again, with the Living Wage - the statutory national minimum wage for those aged 25 and over- will go up the highest by almost 5% from 1 April 2019. It will boost the figure from £7.83 to...

06 November, 2018

Recently in Singapore an employer used CCTV to monitor his domestic staff and when he saw his child abused handed the evidence to the police. He then posted it on Facebook. His actions have once again stirred up the “should we or shouldn’t we” monitor...

06 November, 2018

  In many situations, women’s Menopause is still a taboo subject, but in the workplace, including that of your domestic staff, it has to be recognised and taken into account. In 2017 the government published a report “Menopause: effects on women s’ economic participation.” Prior to that...

06 November, 2018

In 2020, the government will introduce a new leave entitlement, bereavement leave, being a statutory entitlement, it will be paid leave. There is currently no requirement for you as an employer to grant leave in these harrowing times , although common decency comes into play an...

16 October, 2018

Despite repeated publicity promotions and warnings to employers - including of course those of domestic and household staff - of not paying the legal minimum wage, a record £15.6 million worth of underpayment has been uncovered by the government in just the last year. As a...

16 October, 2018

You would like to think that when your domestic/Household staff are working for you, that even on their days off,  they are not working for anyone else. But according to a report by Henley Business School, 40% of employees have a job on the side to...

27 September, 2018
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