Premier Legal will be entering a team in the Independant Business Association Charity Golf Day on 29 September.
The day in aid of Cerebal Palsy Sport will feature many sporting legends from the area.
The Companies Act 2002 has gone some way to ensuring that businesses take their corporate social responsibility seriously. It states that all companies, except small businesses, have to prepare a business review as part of the director’s annual report in which information is provided about environmental, social and community issues. They also have to consider the impact of their business on employment and employee matters.
It is important your business has a policy in place for absenteeism and that your contract of terms and conditions deal with your sickness procedures – a requirement of section 1(4)(d)(ii) of the Employment Rights Act 1996. Let’s be fair. There will be some absences that are necessary, you don’t want the person that soldiers on through a bout of ’flu coming into the office and giving it to everyone else. Yet we all know that there are exaggerated sicknesses and downright untruths.
A business may change hands in two distinct ways: a transfer of the business from one company to another or an acquisition of the shares of a company. In each case the employees have a level of employment protection, but it may be different depending on the situation.
The more usual is TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings Protection of Employment Regulations 2006). It is well known that TUPE offers protection to employees when a business entity is transferred from one owner to another and each member of staff should transfer to the new business with their terms and conditions of employment intact.