During employment

This section covers all aspects of managing your staff during their employment. Our guides will help to ensure you keep within the law and follow best practice. And see below for a quick summary of what's new!
Absence Consultation and communication Discipline and misconduct Discrimination and diversity Grievances	Management skills Managing your workers Managing your organisation Maternity, adoption, paternity and parental Working hours
What's new? Pension age: the Government is consulting on increasing the State Pension age to 66, earlier than originally proposed. See: pensions Absence statistics: the latest CBI/Pfizer survey shows the lowest rate of absence since the survey began in 1987 - an average employee absence of 6.4 days per year. See: managing absence Dismissal: some interesting cases have confirmed that resignations cannot be backdated (even if both parties wish to do this); and that failure to follow a contractual disciplinary procedure may lead to breach of contract claims including future loss of earnings. See: dismissal