Issue 33 - December 09

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Welcome to issue thirty three of transform-hr.com, our e-zine for HR and payroll professionals.

In our opinion column this issue we look at Performance Management – Are you maximising your biggest resource: your employees?

We also have a whole range of articles from looking at Employment Law in 2010 through to our regular legislation timetable ‘Legal Eagle’ in Industry Specials.

Transform-hr.com will give you ideas, knowledge and inspiration to help you transform HR and payroll to deliver effective structures, policies, services and processes that can significantly impact your business in a positive way.

transform-hr.com is a comprehensive online source of knowledge and thinking for the HR and payroll community. Therefore to ensure it provides the best service, responses and feedback to the topics discussed are critical to the e-zine's continued success!

special feature

Default Retirement Age is Lawful

The default retirement age of 65 is not unlawful but should be scrapped, a judge has ruled in the long-running Heyday legal case... [more]

opinion column

Performance Management

In an economic downturn organisations will look at saving costs but what about getting more for your money? Are you maximising your biggest resource: your employees? [more]

industry specials

Best practice advice when an employee dies in service

Death is not something that any employer wishes to consider beyond ensuring that life assurance is available and the pre-requisite health and safety regulations are in place to protect staff... [more]

also in industry specials this issue:

Collective Consultation during Redundancies

Throughout 2009 there has been much uncertainty for employers in the field of employment... [more]

Guidance on Redundancies involving Fewer than 20 Employees

According to Tribunal Services statistics, there has been a 153% increase in the number of claims for 'failure to inform and consult on redundancies' in 2008/2009... [more]

Employment Law: What’s new in 2010?

A summary guide to forthcoming employment legislation to be introduced or amended in 2010... [more]

Self Certification of Sickness Absence

Over the last few months, the Government has been closely monitoring the number of swine flu cases in the UK and the strain the pandemic has put on the National Health Service... [more]

Managing bereavement in the workplace

However inconvenient to your business, it is important to deal with issues of employee bereavement sensitively and sympathetically... [more]

Sick whilst on holiday? No problem, take the holiday again!

Two recent decisions by the European Court of Justice have thrown the rules relating to annual holiday entitlement into turmoil... [more]

Identity Cards – Who Needs Them?

It has been a year since the introduction of the Identity Card for foreign nationals. Now the Identity and Passport Service is introducing two more... [more]

schools

The end of List 99 and the introduction of the new Vetting and Barring Scheme

The government's new Vetting and Barring Scheme for England, Wales and Northern Ireland became operational in October 2009... [more]

recruitment

Reviewing your Recruitment Requirements

There has never been a better time to review your recruitment requirements... [more]

legal timetable

Legal Eagle

Here is a summary of forthcoming legislation that could affect you and your company... [more]

ipp news

Microsoft creates Christmas payroll 'nightmare'

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also in ipp news this issue:

No surprises or certainty in Queen's speech

[more]

New Bank Holiday?

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Financial Services Bill

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Flexible working requests to prospective employers?

[more]

Childcare vouchers

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Limit tax relief for high earners, says TUC

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ID cards formally added to 'statutory excuse list'

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Getting to grips with ID cards

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Resident labour market test to change

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Employment agencies leaflet

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Right to request time off to train

[more]

Pay benchmarking data published

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In-work benefit advice

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Four weeks' paternity leave?

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EU ministers agree longer parental leave

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Preventing harassment at work

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Safeguarding vulnerable workers in Scotland

[more]

Advisory fuel rates

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Relaxation on VAT increase

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TUC calls for £6 per hour NMW

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And at the other end of the scale...

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BCC calls for halt to employment legislation

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The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act

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Call for evidence on default retirement age (DRA)

[more]

Tax refunds for students

[more]

Serial litigants - database launched

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TUC Publishes Guidance on Medical Reports

[more]

Blacklisting of Union Members

[more]

Pre-Budget Report

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