by Insight Editor | Mar 2, 2020 | Employee Discipline
When it comes to employee discipline, a lot of employers and managers feel uncomfortable in having what they deem to be an ‘awkward’ conversation. So much so in fact that they can tend to put it off, enabling the issue to fester and worsen over time. This can be down...
by Insight Editor | Mar 2, 2020 | Employee Discipline
Last month saw the reckoning of Harvey Weinstein, as he faced judge and juror over the allegations of sexually motivated crimes that sparked the #metoo movement. At the time of writing, his fate remains undecided. It is safe to say however, that Harvey Weinstein has...
by Insight Editor | Mar 2, 2020 | Employee Discipline
Richard Branson is famous for many things, but perhaps one of his most well-known quotes states that employees should always come first. Look after your employees, he says, and they will look after your clients. Of course, it makes sense that we should be paying...
by Insight Editor | Feb 3, 2020 | Sexual harassment, Uncategorized
In October 2017, social media users around the world were becoming intrigued by a hashtag which seemed to have broken free from the Twitter sphere to proliferate the far-flung corners of the internet. It seemed that all over the world, people were updating their...
by Insight Editor | Sep 4, 2019 | Employment Contracts, Grievance and Disciplinary, Hiring, Policies and Procedures, Workplace Investigations
Prevention is Always Better Than Cure: The Importance of Getting your Paperwork Right! The idea that prevention is necessarily better than cure long ago made its way from adage into the heart of employee and industrial relations policy. However, the legal environment...
by Insight Editor | Jul 29, 2019 | Employee Discipline
The conventional way of formally dealing with a consistently under-performing employee is to begin a disciplinary process. And the groundwork for being able to do this requires an employer to have in place a rigorous disciplinary process of which all employees have...
