When your employee becomes ill, or has an injury, with long-term effects, it takes not only a toll on them of course, but also on you as their employer as there is sometimes quite a disruption to your business.
While we would love to completely eradicate inappropriate behaviour at staff Christmas parties, unfortunately there is no fool-proof course of action that employers and managers can take to guarantee everything stays above board.
Local employers who hire migrants would do well to double-check they’re complying with all of their employment obligations, lest they be banned from employing foreign staff, under new laws which came into effect on April 1.
In his song, Italian Restaurant, Billy Joel sums up a piece of fraud prevention advice I regularly give to small business owners: A bottle of white, a bottle of red … perhaps a bottle of rose instead.
Anyone thinking employment law is a bit of a dry, stuffy old affair need only take in some of the headline grabbers of the past few months to realise just how heated – and public – the fallout from workplace relations-gone-sour can become.
