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Your rights after insolvency

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:01:42 GMT

When a business has become legally insolvent, a trustee, receiver, liquidator or supervisor of an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) may be appointed and they will decide whether to keep the employees on or dismiss them.

Pay not always ‘guaranteed’

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:13:18 GMT

Following on from last week’s article about lay-offs and short-time working, this article will look in more detail at the issue of guarantee payments.

Tackling lay off and short time working

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:06:08 GMT

As all the newspaper headlines tell us, the credit crunch is having an effect on employment, with more people being laid off or put on short-time working and this is the focus for this article.

Working Brief: Changes in maternity law for the better

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:26:36 GMT

Following a High Court judgment, working parents on maternity or adoption leave will benefit from a change in the law.

Exclusion of contractors in spotlight yet again

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:33:06 GMT

Last month I commented on the decision in the McLaughlin & Harvey case in which Mr Justice Deeny held that the firm had been wrongly excluded from a framework of contractors selected to implement various construction projects over the next four years at a cost of £500 to £800m.

How to survive losing your job

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:53:29 GMT

In the financial meltdown, the threat of redundancy is worrying. Jane Hardy hears how one man coped, plus gets some expert tips

NI universities' bullying shame

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:33:20 GMT

Northern Ireland’s two universities have been listed among the worst in a survey on bullying of university staff across the UK.

Siobhan Harding: The lowdown on sick pay laws

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:30:29 GMT

Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) is the minimum amount employers must pay to employees who are off work because of illness, disability, industrial injury or disease, investigation of possible illness/disease, or are by law prevented from working in order to prevent the spread of certain infectious diseases.

Paper gets to work on benefits

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:13:39 GMT

This week I am focusing on the introduction of a new social security benefit which will have some long-term implications for the world of work.

Keep up with race legislation

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:22:27 GMT

An English pipe fitter who was working in Dublin has been awarded 20,000 euro (£15,630) in compensation after being racially abused in his workplace.

Parents' flexitime reforms halted

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:33:23 GMT

Plans to allow 4.5 million parents to work flexibly are to be delayed by the Government as it searches for ways to help businesses survive the economic downturn.

Parent flexitime reforms halted

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:33:23 GMT

Plans to allow 4.5 million parents to work flexibly are to be delayed by the Government as it searches for ways to help businesses survive the economic downturn.

Working Brief: Knowing your rights on wage increases

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:06:59 GMT

From Wednesday, October 1, the rates of National Minimum Wage (NMW) are increasing. Revised rates are: workers aged 22 or over £5.73 per hour, workers aged 18-21 £4.77 per hour and workers aged 16 and 17 over compulsory school age £3.53 per hour.

Boasting about sickie could get you the sack

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:45:40 GMT

So you've told the boss you have a bad cold, but you're really at home recovering from a hangover. And you've posted this boast on Facebook.

Working Brief: Employers should make staff aware of smoke-free legislation

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:57:30 GMT

It is now well over a year since smoke-free legislation was introduced in Northern Ireland. Since April last year it has been against the law to smoke in most enclosed or substantially enclosed workplaces and public places including work vehicles and public transport.

First aid needs change according |to the workplace

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:00:34 GMT

The Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1982 require employers to provide adequate first aid facilities and equipment, and ensure there are enough suitably trained people to give first-aid to employees if they are injured or become ill at work.

Counselling service for employees

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:28:04 GMT

Whitemountai Quarries has introduced an employee counselling service — to offer advice on dealing with the credit crunch.

Rights and wrongs for the young at work

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:00:04 GMT