Access to Medical Reports Act 1998There are a number of reasons why an employer may wish to obtain a medical report on an employee. These reasons include: to determine whether or not the employee is able to carry out their day to day job role within the Company; to assess … Read More

Alan Lewis, Emplyment Solicitor at Linder Myers Solicitors Advises:“An employee has been caught watching pornography on their computer during their lunch break, can we suspend them?” Suspension traditionally used to be seen as a default position for employers who suspect an employee of committing an act of gross misconduct. However, … Read More

An Employer’s Obligation to Manage Holiday Requests FairlyIt is increasingly squarely the responsibility of the employer to ensure that employees take their statutory holiday allowance.  It can also have a detrimental effect on workplace morale to be perceived as unreasonably refusing annual leave requests.  There are of course issues  when … Read More

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Lee Bronze, Employment Specialist at Linder Myers Solicitors Advises:“Is it discriminatory if we, as a GP Practice, believe there is a risk in relation to a job applicant’s future inability to work on health grounds rather than current ability and therefore refuse employment?” A belief that a potential employee has … Read More

Adopting and Employee’s Belief:Why the decision to remove a Director for expressing his faith-based objection to same-sex adoption was not discriminatory and may have wider consequences.  Last month the Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) with its decision in Page v NHS Trust Development Authority found that it was not discriminatory to … Read More

RedundancyWhen an employee is made redundant they may be eligible for a redundancy payment, in order for an employee to be eligible for a redundancy payment they would need to have two years’ continuous service. There are various reasons why an employee would be made redundant, they can most easily … Read More

Contracts of EmploymentWhen a new employee is recruited it is important from the outset to have the terms of their employment clearly defined by issuing them with a contract of employment. For the employee, a contract gives them the security that they are working for a professional business that has … Read More

Beautiful Information Joins Caradoc as an Approved SupplierBeautiful Information is the first NHS/Private Partnership of its kind, offering unique real-time information to NHS organisations to help them plan and resource clinical services to meet hourly fluctuations in patient flow. For further information, contact Scott Parker at: [email protected] quoting Caradoc.

ISDN Lines Switch Off by 2025In 2014 BT announced that they were going to switch off all ISDN lines by 2025 and as of 2020, you will not be able to order new or upgrade these lines. At the time and probably still now for some, it still seems miles … Read More

Accidentally overpaying an employee can lead to a costly mistakeThe law protects all workers from unauthorised deductions being taken from their pay. To lawfully make deductions from wages or to receive payments from a worker, the deduction or payment must be: a) Required or authorised by law. For example, income … Read More

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Toffees, a Burglary and the ICOLate one Friday night, one of our client’s premises, whose business is making and supplying old fashioned sweets, was broken into. His CCTV cameras recorded a white van pulling up outside the front door to the office, 4 youths getting out of the van, cutting … Read More

Since becoming an Approved Supplier for Caradoc, Power Solutions have saved over £1.1m for Caradoc Members. Take our no obligation FREE audit to see whether we can save monies for your Practice / Business. Rising Energy Costs – What can you do? Practices and Businesses with fixed rate energy contracts … Read More

Q doctor is a video consultation platform that connects clinicians and patients, in a manner that is both highly secure (surpasses IG & NHS Digital standards) and designed for a healthcare setting (through safeguarding and safety netting tools, appointment system and virtual waiting room). Q doctor has proven benefit across … Read More

Card Payment MachinesCaradoc has been made aware that one of the leading suppliers is again increasing customer prices in March 2019. The company is reported to be the UK’s largest supplier of merchant acquiring services (card payments). You may be affected, as with other price increases currently happening. While the … Read More

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Whose belief matters anyway? To what extent do employers have to accommodate an employee’s belief when trying to follow their own? It may be the case that Employers are able to take some comfort that the Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) have ruled that in certain circumstances the religion or belief of … Read More

Carley Dhand, Employment Specialist at Linder Myers Solicitors advises:-  “I have an employee who is on probation and is suffering from an abscess. They have been underperforming for some time and I would like to dismiss them. Is there anything I need to consider?” Whilst this employee has less than … Read More