While it is not beyond belief that students with tablets and smart phones might surreptitiously occupy their minds elsewhere during a lecture, this year’s Employmentlawworldview Oscar for Best Multitasking must surely go to the Swiss professor dismissed last week for watching porn while giving a lecture. What poise, what practice, what confidence that must take, … Continue Reading
Workplace relationships, petites aventures and flirtation between employees are a headache that many employers have to suffer. The management of workplace romance has become increasingly difficult with staff working longer hours and social media often blurring the lines between the professional and personal lives of employees. This issue was splashed across the press recently when … Continue Reading
In a recent post on this blog, “Words Fail Me, I’m a Manager,” David Whincup explored the use of euphemisms in the world of employment relations. This is the world where managers, finding it difficult to look employees in the eye, choose email, or better still, text messages to communicate difficult messages, using such choice … Continue Reading
You know that there is something seriously amiss with employment relations in the UK when Acas’ new Guidance on settlement agreements has to run to 83 pages. This is of course on top of its Code of Practice which contains another 11. So that is close to 100 pages dedicated essentially to how to agree … Continue Reading
As previously reported here, employers in China must consider several costs when making employment termination decisions. In addition to severance pay as previously noted, employers should consider: accrued but unused statutory vacation days as well as compensation for non-compete obligations. Accrued But Unused Statutory Vacation Days In China, employers are required to pay daily salary … Continue Reading
Is it just very old fashioned to require your candidates and employees to be honest with you as their employer? Is a proper degree of trust not an integral part of the employment relationship, just as your staff would expect you to be truthful with them? After a case this month in the German Federal … Continue Reading
Employers in China must consider the cost as well as the risk when making employment termination decisions. So how does an employer determine cost of the termination? One factor that employers must examine: severance pay. Severance Pay. One month salary in lieu of the notice: for certain termination grounds, such as non-performance, employers must give … Continue Reading
