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Single Sex facilities Ensuring your company are prepared for its introduction

The Requirement to offer Single-Sex Facilities The UK Supreme Court recently ruled in the case of ‘For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers’, confirming that the term ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refers strictly to biological sex. This ruling has important implications for how employers apply equality law and manage workplace facilities. In response, the […]

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Help your team to move smoothly from home back to the office after Covid

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Settling into a new way of working With Covid now, thankfully, a distant memory for many, some businesses are looking at ways to bring their workforce back to the office. The process isn’t always as easy as you may think. For some, the transition is straightforward. For others, less so. The importance of feeling ‘settled’

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Why employers must act now on the October 2024 sexual harassment legislation

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A shift in employer responsibility From October 2024, the Worker Protection Act (Amendment of the Equality Act 2010) placed a new legal duty on employers to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. This includes harassment carried out by third parties. The change raised the bar for everyday workplace safeguarding, yet many

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Welcome to the Black Dog HR Blog

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Blogs will be written both by members of the Black Dog HR Consultancy Team and by a range of Guest Bloggers writing about topics in their specialist areas. The hope is that the wide range of topics that we will cover will prompt discussion and encourage you to relate them to your own experiences.

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Introducing the Black Dog HR Wheel

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Happy New Year and welcome to the Black Dog HR Blog. We have started this blog as a way of Black Dog HR engaging more with our visitors on HR topics and hope that its contents are useful and thought-provoking, as well as humorous and demonstrating how many areas HR can help with. For

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Immediate Changes to Zero Hour Contracts

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The main principles of Zero Hours Contracts: With Effect from Tuesday 26th May 2015, legislation now bans the use of exclusivity clauses in Zero-Hour Contracts. This clause, if included, prevents workers on Zero Hour Contracts from working for another employer. Zero Hour Contracts are used in a number of different industry sectors, often due to

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Holiday Pay Ruling

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Holiday Pay Ruling The introduction of the new holiday and overtime legislation on the 4th November 2014 means that employees holiday pay should reflect the employees ‘normal pay’ rather than just the employee’s basic salary. So what regular payments should holiday pay include? Commission Overtime Allowances linked to status or performance Shift Payments (for example

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