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What happens when an employment contract is out of date?

Can an employer change an employment contract, and if they do will such changes lead to a claim for breach of contract? This is one area of employment law that we advise you take advice on before you act. Importantly we recommend you take advice at the ‘thinking about it stage’ before you have talked […]

How do I deal with borderline aggressive staff?

At work, there will be times when you hire someone with qualities such as: being able to lead the team make decisions handle difficulties and they then turn out to be borderline aggressive. You wanted confidence, what you appointed was aggression.  But they were fine at interview. At interview they wanted to put across how useful they […]

Should I use exit interviews when my staff leave?

When someone leaves your employment it is a very good idea if you can have an exit interview with them. That’s not always going to be possible.  After all not all leavers are voluntary! Where someone is resigning from the employer, where they are giving you notice of their leaving, you should ask them to […]