Working time and holiday pay
Employment Tribunals (ETs) have made heavy weather of the provisions in the Working Time Regulations (WTR) relating to holiday pay. No one doubts that workers are entitled to payment, and many agencies include a sum in respect of that pay with normal “wage” payments. Conflicting results have arisen from applications to ETs, on the one […]
Risk management and insurance
Effective risk management is crucial to businesses of all sizes and is no less important to a recruitment agency when the market is in a downturn. It may be tempting to ignore risk when the times are tough but storing up potentially dangerous liabilities could prove costly in the long term. Contracts An important aspect […]