Chargebacks and their kangaroo courts
To clarify, a “Chargeback” is where a consumer complaints to their bank about a debit card transaction alleging that they should be refunded.
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Tracking employees and GDPR
You are entitled as an employer to use tracking devices in company vehicles.
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FCA Regulated firms and the new SMCR
December 2019 is a fair way ahead but this is something which FCA registered dealers will need to start thinking about to ensure compliance.
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Reconsidering traditional working hours
When asked to describe their ideal working hours, 37% chose 8am-4pm as their preferred working hours.
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Going solo! attending court
If you go it alone you will be known as a ‘litigant in person’.
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Contact with sick employees
As an employer, phoning or contacting the employee daily could be seen as unreasonable
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Working Time Regulations 1998 – does “on call” count?
Only “active time” will count as working time under the WTR.
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Annual leave request was refused but employee takes the time off anyway
You will need to handle this matter as a normal misconduct issued under your disciplinary procedure.
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Shorts ban
HSE have confirmed there is no legal obligation on employers to ban shorts.
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Golden opportunity for guidance on the proportionality test goes begging!
Costs which are disproportionate in amount may be disallowed or reduced even if they were reasonable or necessarily incurred.
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Can you be sent home from work if it gets too hot?
The law does not set a minimum or maximum working temperature limit.
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GDPR, DPA it’s all about the data
In all the GDPR headlines, it may have escaped the notice of some that the UK got its own updated Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA).
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