The News - Gravitate HR Weblog
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According to Croner, the UK’s leading workplace information and consultancy providers, have highlighted the potential cost of mismanagement of redundancies. Employers who are looking to cut costs by making redundancies run the risk of facing further costs as a result of employees raising tribunal claims against them. They recommend that businesses seek professional [...]
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Some recent employment case law affecting various areas of the employment relationship:
Garden Leave : no contractual right to do so
Two employees resigned giving the required notice period, they were both leaving to join competitors. The employer had strong evidence to prove that they had taken confidential information, tools and know-how, of which their new employer [...]
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Gravitate HR have been selected to be one of the 10 winners to represent Scotland in this year’s HSBC Start Up Stars Awards. This means that we go forward to a national judging panel, who will select 10 national finalists and 5 Green Award Finalists.
If we are successful at that, its off to London to [...]
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Margery, Heather and Sarah have now completed their races with Heather coming in the fastest time of 33 minutes. All three really enjoyed the experience and are proud of the £1.5K that they have collectively raised for Cancer Research. The business also sponsored a client in the Moon Walk, who successfully completed the [...]
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Gravitate HR have been nominated as Scotland Finalists in the HSBC business start up stars awards. This has been a great boost to the team and a great PR story with existing and new clients. We are now working through our submission for the next round which is in July. In itself [...]
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Margery joins European HR Managers from Chevron for their annual One HR Conference in Edinburgh.
Margery was invited to present an interactive session as part of the skills development programme for the HR teams from across Europe during their annual conference. The session focused on the mechanisms and business requirements to demonstrate value of HR [...]
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In light of the recent fuel price increases, HM Revenue & Customs have announced of increase fuel rates for Company Cars. It is the intention that these will be reviewed each year in January and July.
Engine size
Petrol
Diesel
LPG
1400cc or less
12p
13p
7p
1401cc to 2000cc
15p
13p
9p
Over 2000cc
21p
17p
13p
The rates will apply when employers:
reimburse [...]
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Today it is with sadness that we say farewell to Amanda. She leaves Gravitate HR to go to a Regional HR Advisor role with WH Smith and we wish her the very best in her future career. Amanda has been with Gravitate for over a year (a long time in the history of Gravitate!) and [...]
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