Unfortunately, some employees take weeks to submit their expense claims. Not only is this irritating, it can wreak havoc when you’re trying to sort out your end of financial year paperwork. What’s
the answer to this problem?
Published 30.01.2015
Employees who incur business-related expenses usually submit a claim form pretty quickly. But one subscriber has experienced exactly the opposite situation; it’s probably easier to get blood out of a
stone! What’s our advice here?
Published 09.02.2011
One of your employees has submitted a very late claim for expenses. You want to know if you must honour it and what can you do in future to stop unnecessarily late submissions. So what steps should
you take?
Published 18.09.2008
Apparently, over one million employees steal from their employer each week. Stationery is the most popular item taken, but it’s estimated that 250,000 laptops have gone walkabout too! What can you do
to discourage workplace theft?
Published 10.01.2011
Quite surprisingly, 80% of workers admit to regularly picking up work e-mails when they’re on annual leave; apparently it helps them to relax! Such behaviour is commendable, but is this something you
should ban or encourage?
Published 08.09.2010
Out of choice, an employee always works through their lunch hour. You don’t ask them to do this, or indeed expect it - they’re entitled to a break. However, could this practice allow them to claim
costly overtime by default?
Published 01.06.2012
The default retirement age has now been consigned to the legal history books, so you can no longer forcibly dismiss someone because they’ve reached 65. But what about your application procedure? Must
anything change here?
Published 07.11.2011
It was recently reported that the insurance giant, Aviva, will be paying affected staff “two weeks’ pay only” in its next round of redundancies. So do employers have the right to reduce redundancy
payments?
Published 03.05.2013
As the default retirement age will soon be abolished, you must act quickly if you want to serve any employees with notifications of intended retirement. But what happens if they then challenge your
decision? How should you play it?
Published 09.02.2011