Work & Employment
Deductions From Pay and When Money May Be Withheld
A smaller payment than expected raises a narrow question. Something must authorise the reduction, and general dissatisfaction with…
Work & Employment
Contracts, notice, dismissal and what an employment relationship involves.
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Work & Employment
Holiday Entitlement Accrues Rather Than Simply Appears
Paid leave builds up as work is done, which explains almost every argument about it. The mechanics are more mathematical than most…
Work & Employment
Grievances: The Complaint That Travels the Other Way
Disciplinary procedures run from employer to worker. A grievance runs in the opposite direction, and its usefulness lies mostly in…
Work & Employment
References and the Careful Language Employers Use
A reference that says almost nothing is not an accident. Employers write them under competing pressures, and the caution shows in…
Work & Employment
Discrimination at Work Turns on Reasons, Not Rudeness
Unpleasant treatment is not automatically unlawful. The legal question is narrower and asks what actually explains the difference…
Work & Employment
Changing a Contract of Employment Without Agreement
An employer who wants different terms faces the same obstacle as any other contracting party. The routes around that obstacle each…
Work & Employment
Settlement Agreements and What the Payment Is Buying
An employer offering money at the end of a relationship is buying certainty. Understanding exactly what is being sold explains why…
Work & Employment
Bonuses, Commission and the Weight of the Word Discretionary
Variable pay sits in a strange position between gift and entitlement. Where a particular scheme sits depends on wording, on…
Work & Employment
Casual and Zero-Hours Work: The Gaps Between Engagements
Work without guaranteed hours raises a question that ordinary employment law was not built for. What happens legally in the periods…