REIMBURSEMENT OF EMPLOYEES’ EXPENSES

Employees often incur expenses on behalf of their employers.  For instance, salespersons may use their automobiles and cell phones in the course of their duties.  Other employees may purchase office supplies or advance payment for hotel rooms or meals.  When must an employer reimburse employees for expenses incurred?  Must employers reimburse employees for actual expenses—whether [...]

Employment Law: Dismissals For Incapability & Other Topics

Incapability Dismissals Contrary to popular belief ‘ill health’ is a potentially fair reason for dismissal since it relates to the employee’s capability to perform the work that they were employed to do. However, in the context of incapability dismissals, the Employment Tribunal will scrutinise the procedures followed by the employer prior to termination, in order [...]

Employment Agreement Issues

Since the beginning of the capitalist society in the world, the struggles contradictions between employers and employees have existed along with it. And also the agreements made binding by putting them on paper. During the early days, individuals just trust and rely on each other’s words in establishing an employment agreement from the plowing of [...]

Employment Contracts: Workers’ Written Statement Rights

There exists a contract between each employee and employer which is not necessarily, but is preferred to be, in writing, not necessarily as a single, and often more than one, document readily accessible, containing in a written statement which must be issued to the employee by the employer within a period of not longer than [...]

EMPLOYMENT LAW DISTINCTION BETWEEN ‘EMPLOYEES’ & ‘WORKERS’ AFFECT HOLIDAY & PAY RIGHTS

Affect who the employer is and who is responsible for one’s wage or salary, holiday pay, employer’s contribution to national insurance, pension rights, and employment protection, the legal distinction made between “employees” and “workers”, and between those and “contractors” ~one’s entitlements depend on whether in the eyes of the law one is an employee, or [...]

Employment – Do you Know your Rights?

Do you know your rights?
Your rights are governed by your contract of employment and by the law. Your contract does not have to be written. But, if you are an employee, once you work for your employer continuously for 2 months, you are entitled to a written record of the most important terms of your [...]

Employment Law: Majrowski and Employers’ liability for psychiatric illness

The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 makes harassment both a criminal and civil offence, it was intended to deal with the problem of stalking. Section 1 – Prohibition of Harassment
A person must not pursue a course of conduct which:-
i) Amounts to harassment of another; and ii) which he knows or ought to know amounts [...]