We hope you are all well and looking forward to Easter Weekend. Is it really almost April! April also marks the start of the employment law changes we have been helping our GMA HR clients to prepare for since the beginning of this year. We’ve worked on the changes to your handbook policies, and we
A very Happy New Year to you all from all of us at Greig Melville Associates Limited! Looking back, I think that if the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that as employers, we have learned to be agile; we’ve surprised ourselves with our capacity to change our traditional thinking as leaders. We’ve embraced
Key Changes to the Law Following two consultations which took place earlier in the year in which holiday entitlement and pay calculations were discussed, the Government has now published its response. This means that they have now laid out the proposals for key changes to the law on holiday pay and working time regulations which
How many of us have seen our work-life balance take a dive in the last three or so years and an upsurge in our mental and physical health issues, decreased productivity, and constant stress? Quite a few, I think! No one in the workplace is immune from this issue, and if we are unable to
We have been noticing a growing trend with employees who have disengaged with their employers doing a disappearing act – simply not turning up for work and being uncontactable - which is incredibly frustrating, disruptive, and time-consuming for management. It so happened that one of our regular HR publications popped into our inbox yesterday, highlighting
The post-pandemic economic climate promises to be a difficult one for employees and businesses across the board, with the cost of living rising dramatically. The latest inflation figures are at 5.5 per cent, with the cost of many things – including energy – rising dramatically, yet annualised wage growth sitting at just 4.2 per
Guidance urging people to work from home wherever possible in Scotland is to be relaxed in favour of a "hybrid" system of office and remote working Employers have been asked to phase workers back into spending some time in the office from Monday 31 January. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the move was possible
Return of the SSP rebate scheme for Covid related absences Regulations have now been laid before parliament formally reinstating the SSP rebate scheme that came to an end on 30th September 2021. The rebate scheme allows businesses with less than 250 staff to recover up to 2 weeks of SSP paid out for absence due
Monday 17 January was named ‘Blue Monday’ by UK-based travel company, Sky Travel, as most depressing day of the year. The concept was first published in a 2005 press release from the company, which claimed to have calculated the date "mathematically".There is of course no credible evidence to suggest that one day in particular can
Redundancy Appeals Process While redundancy is a potentially fair reason for dismissal, as an employer you will need to also show that a fair procedure has been followed. This may in some circumstances involve a pooling and selection process. It will always be expected that an employer should, as a minimum, provide advance warning
