Use it or lose it – Lyons v Mitie decision on annual leave.
The UK Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) in the case of Lyons v Mitie found the employer is entitled to require sufficient notice from staff to take holidays, making it the employees own problem if...
View ArticleEfficiency and Effectiveness – What it is, and what it isn’t.
A 2007 whitepaper about neglected management skills in the workplace, highlighted the lack of coordination, communication and control of staff in businesses operating extended or 24 hours working. It...
View ArticleIs there a difference between shift patterns and staff schedules?
Yes there is…a big difference! and we have decided to consolidate all our staff scheduling resources into one Knowledgebase to get round what for many is a problem. A shift pattern is simply a pattern...
View ArticleEmployee Scheduling – Vacation Wars
Some years ago a colleague – a very conscientious hardworking staff member – was boldly declaring she enjoyed 50 leave days a year! Naturally as everyone else only had 25 days leave a year we wanted to...
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Supermarket shifts ’cause anxiety and insecurity’
A recent study by Alex Wood and Brendan Burchell from the department of sociology at Cambridge delivers more evidence about what many of us have suspected. Supermarket ‘super flexible’ working...
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Flexible working comes into law
The right to flexible working has been extended in law to be a fundamental and universal right for UK employees. For many this threatens to become an issue; and it need not be so. This article is not...
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