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Employment law reforms: spring is here with the buds of new legislation!

28th March 2012

With the April changes in employment law rapidly heading our way, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) has published an annual review on employment law. We thought it was a good time to give you all a summary of the changes about to happen and the proposals for future change. If the government […]

Free HR/Employment Law Surgery in Fife

16th March 2012

The next monthly Impact 21 HR/Employment Law surgery takes place on 21st March in Dunfermline. The support service offers Fife businesses a free half hour consultation with qualified HR/employment law professionals on any employment or human resource related issue. Operating on a monthly basis the location will rotate between Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy and Glenrothes. EmployEase provides the […]

Sod it. Let’s just make him redundant..

2nd March 2012

Over the years, we have had numerous discussions with clients about terminating the employment of someone who is not very good at their job. Almost inevitably, at some point during the conversation, the client will ask why we can’t just make him redundant? Our answer is generally because the job isn’t redundant. So what is […]

Next Surgery Wednesday 22nd February

14th February 2012

We are part of a team providing free HR/Employment Law advice at monthly surgeries around Fife. The surgeries rotate between Dunfermline, Glenrothes and Kirkcaldy. The next HR/employment law surgery is on Wednesday 22 February at Kingdom House, Saltire Centre, Glenrothes. Timings for half hour consultation is 9.30, 10.15, 11am and 11.45 am. If you have a business in […]

Beware: the two year qualifying period will take affect for new employees only

31st January 2012

One of the most publicly announced reforms in employment law coming into force on 6th April 2012 is the increase of the qualifying period to claim unfair dismissal from one year to two. We commented on this last year https://www.employease.co.uk/blog/?m=20111007 However, there has been a bit of news on this change. A number of organisations including […]

Next Surgery on 18th January

11th January 2012

We recently explained that we were part of a team providing free HR/Employment Law advice at monthly surgeries around FIfe. The surgeries rotate between Dunfermline, Glenrothes and Kirkcaldy and the next surgery will be held next week on 18th January in the Business Incubator in Kirkcaldy. If you have a business in Fife and would like […]

Have yourselves a very merry Christmas

16th December 2011

With one week to go before Christmas, our clients have gone into housekeeping over drive and as a consequence, we have been run off our feet. While we are both glad to be busy, I should have remembered, after 17 years of business, this happens every year round about this time. Will there ever be […]

You wait for a bus and three come along at the same time: proposed employment law reforms announced today

23rd November 2011

Changes in employment law used to be a bit like waiting for a bus. You would spend most of the year with the same regulations and then a couple of times a year a few changes would come along all at once (April and October). While we presume the timing for introducing new legislation won’t […]

Agony aunts for Fife businesses

16th November 2011

For the past few months we have been involved with Impact 21 in Fife to provide free advice to businesses in Fife on HR and employment law issues. Impact 21 is an enterprise organisation encouraging entrepreneurial activity and business in Fife and delivers Business Gateway in Fife. EmployEase is working with Michelle Austin of MAP […]

Is it a good thing to give an employer the right to treat an employee unfairly?

27th October 2011

There has been a lot of noise in the media and the blogosphere about the leaked report written by venture capitalist Adrian Beecroft, which has been reported as recommending the abolition of unfair dismissal laws. We have seen two extracts purporting to be from that report. Working on the principle that what we have seen […]