Although the law may set down parameters within which employers and employees must manoeuver, an employer should be open minded towards bending the rules slightly in the employees' favour ..

In terms of Employment Law, we always endorse 'preventative maintenance' so that your business never finds itself in a situation where HR fails. However, regretably, sometimes this is unavoidable.

What exactly does the law say about an employee who accesses his/her Facebook page on a computer at work during the hours of employment?  Is it automatically an offence about which that member of staff can be given a warning? Could repeated ignoring of the warning lead ultimately to dismissal?

One of the biggest problems with employees who take time off with illness is knowing if they are really ill, or just throwing a “sickie”.   And of all the illnesses, stress is one of the hardest to verify from an employer’s point of view.