Ending employment can be a challenging process, requiring careful adherence to legal obligations and best practices. This topic provides essential guidance for legal practitioners on navigating terminations, redundancies, and dismissals, ensuring compliance and minimising risk.
The government has published proposed new benefit and pension rates for 2024 to 2025 including in respect of Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), Statutory...
ET1 grounds of claim—indirect sex discrimination[Insert in para 8.2 of claim form ET1:]1The Claimant is a woman and the Respondent is [enter details,...
Waiver of noticeEmployers and employees can waive their right to be given notice when their employment relationship comes to an end.Waiving...
Constructive dismissaldismissal of an employee by their employer will typically be at the instigation of the employer. In other words, the employer...
Payment in lieu of notice (PILON)The right to notice means a right for the employee to remain in employment for the period of notice, not simply to be paid for it. An employer will therefore often include in the contract an express right to make a payment in lieu of notice ('PILON') as an
Garden leave and the right to workIn broad terms, putting an employee on 'garden leave' means the employer sending the employee home on full pay, usually during the employee's notice period when an employee has resigned or has been dismissed with notice. The employee remains employed by the employer
Waiver of noticeEmployers and employees can waive their right to be given notice when their employment relationship comes to an end.Waiving contractual noticeAn employer can waive its right to receive contractual notice at any time. Any waiver of the right to notice should be carefully documented by
Late payment penalties—inheritance taxWhile interest often accrues on overdue tax, the late payment of certain taxes may also attract a penalty. For information on the interest accruing on overdue tax, see Practice Notes: IHT—payment deadlines on death—Interest on IHT and Interest on late paid
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