Employment Notes
Tag: sick leave
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Singapore: Focus on fixed-term employees
On 31 July 2017 the Tripartite Alliance issued the Tripartite Standard on Employment of Term Contract Employees (First Standard), (Tripartite Standards). …
Hong Kong: Legislative Council to consider reinstatement remedy for unfair dismissal claims
On 25 April 2017, the Employment (Amendment) Bill 2017 was introduced for first reading in the Legislative Council. This Bill follows a similar Bill …
UK: April 2017 changes - apprenticeship levy, tribunal compensation limits, national minimum wage, statutory benefits and immigration skills charge
From 6 April 2017 UK employers with an annual pay bill of or over £3 million will be required to pay an apprenticeship levy at a rate equivalent to 0.5% …
UK: Dismissal for long-term sickness - new medical evidence at internal appeal
Employers should ensure they investigate any evidence that a long-term sick employee may soon be able to return to work before deciding to dismiss, even …
Singapore: Compliance Check - Workplace Incident Reporting
The Ministry of Manpower requires employers, workplace occupiers, and doctors to report workplace incidents where an employee, a self-employed person, or …
Australia: Key decision on directing employees to see a doctor
The Full Federal Court has handed down a decision on an employer’s right to direct attendance at a medical appointment, and whether an employer can …
Australia: One size plaster cast does not fit all - Navigating the pitfalls of dismissing an injured or incapacitated worker
In brief Many employers will, at some point, be faced with the difficult task of terminating the employment of an employee who has been absent from …
UK: Unfair dismissal - "taking a sickie" is gross misconduct
An employer can fairly dismiss for gross misconduct where it has a genuine and reasonable belief (after reasonable investigation) that an employee has …
UK: Discipline - raising non-urgent or trivial concerns while an employee is on stress-related sick leave may amount to constructive dismissal
Employers should consider carefully whether it is necessary to raise disciplinary concerns with an employee while they are absent on stress-related sick …
UK: Unfair dismissal - employer contribution to ill-health relevant to when it will be fair to dismiss
Two recent cases illustrate the need for employers to take into account their own contribution to an employee's ill-health when determining whether and …
UK: Employees on long-term sick leave are not 'assigned' for TUPE transfer if absence is permanent
Case law has established that temporary absence from work, for example on sick leave or family-related leave, does not prevent an individual being …
UK: Employers must permit carry-over of statutory holiday for 18 months where unused due to sickness
Employees unable or unwilling to take their 4 weeks' EU-derived statutory holiday because of sickness absence continuing to the end of the leave year can …
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