By Peter Done on Small Business – Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
If a person is on a zero hours contract, are they entitled to bereavement leave?
Statutory bereavement leave is available to employees, but only in limited circumstances. If your employee has a child who dies, under the age of 18, or who is stillborn, they can take up to two weeks bereavement leave within 56 weeks of the death. What a week would be for them would be based on their average working week (one, two, three days etc).
Bear in mind, not all zero-hours staff are employees. Some can be workers, who don’t get the same rights as employees. If they are a worker, and not an employee, this statutory right will not apply to them.
>See also: Calculating holiday allowances for part-time staff
In other circumstances, there are some limited rights to time off, especially where your employee has to make arrangements for the funeral, etc. Your contract may set out the rules for this, including if that is paid (there is nothing to say it has to be, unless you normally do so). Do you give paid bereavement leave normally?
Look at the terms of your contract
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Is an employee entitled to bereavement leave?
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By Peter Done on Small Business – Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
If a person is on a zero hours contract, are they entitled to bereavement leave?
Statutory bereavement leave is available to employees, but only in limited circumstances. If your employee has a child who dies, under the age of 18, or who is stillborn, they can take up to two weeks bereavement leave within 56 weeks of the death. What a week would be for them would be based on their average working week (one, two, three days etc).
Bear in mind, not all zero-hours staff are employees. Some can be workers, who don’t get the same rights as employees. If they are a worker, and not an employee, this statutory right will not apply to them.
>See also: Calculating holiday allowances for part-time staff
In other circumstances, there are some limited rights to time off, especially where your employee has to make arrangements for the funeral, etc. Your contract may set out the rules for this, including if that is paid (there is nothing to say it has to be, unless you normally do so). Do you give paid bereavement leave normally?
Look at the terms of your contract
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3 ways to look after staff wellbeing during the coronavirus crisis
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Originally written by Steve Arnold on Small Business
The government’s announcement on March 27 that all key workers, who have not taken all of their statutory annual leave, will be allowed to carry it over into the next two years, is commendable. What it means is that those workers who are currently battling to keep the country moving during this pandemic will be able to carry over up to four weeks of unused leave. This will be reassuring news to those workers, who may already be feeling in need of a break, to look at this as light at the end of the tunnel.
With that said, there are still many areas that companies need to consider and plan around, when it comes to looking after staff wellbeing during the coronavirus crisis and maintaining a healthy, happy workforce during Covid-19.
>See also: Working from home – How to manage your time and increase productivity
#1 – Be alert to burnout
In a normal busy work environment this can be difficult for companies to spot. This is only intensified now that nearly all our workforces are stuck working from home. Even with video conferencing, the lack of being physically present in the same working space as someone
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Many UK air passengers are having to rethink their travel plans after Ryanair withdrew flights on dozens of routes over the winter and collapsed airline Monarch ceased flights altogether. Employers will inevitably have to deal with an increase in employees asking to change their annual leave dates. Jo Stubbs, head of content at XpertHR Group,
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Should you take annual leave this summer?
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Working long hours can easily become a habit, but all work and no play can quickly spiral into burnout. Your capacity for innovative thinking and effective problem solving can also take a dive as a result. Studies have shown that people are more productive and happier when they take their annual leave. According to a
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Brit’s just won’t stop working, as annual leave goes to waste
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Thanks to us Brits being workaholics, it’s been revealed that in 2016, UK workers grafted an extra £17 billion of free work as we didn’t take the holiday we’re entitled too. A new study, commissioned by the sun-loving holiday specialists Airtours, finds Brits aren’t using their well-earned holiday to do the things they love; in fact,
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