Roslyn Dawe

16 May

Trainee Solicitor, in the Employment Team

Roslyn is a trainee solicitor in the Employment Team. Roslyn joined Nash & Co in November 2021, having previously worked at a large transatlantic firm for 4 years.

Roslyn has experience defending Employment Tribunal claims on behalf of businesses as well as dealing with a range of day-to-day HR matters.

Roslyn Dawe

rdawe@nash.co.uk
01752 827088

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The Employment Rights Bill 2024: What do we know and what’s still unclear?

The Employment Rights Bill (2024), according to the government, promises major changes to the UK's employment laws, designed to enhance worker protections while also increasing transparency and fairness in the workplace.

Elf Employment Essentials: Rights and Responsibilities

It was time for the final piece of the business puzzle: recruitment. Buddy and Chip had the workshop, the supplies and the licenses they needed. But it would all be redundant if they didn’t have a talented workforce behind them.

Ringing the employment law changes for the new year

Last week, the UK Government responded to consultations on retained EU employment laws, seeking improvements post-Brexit.

Anti Social Media

A recent first instance Tribunal case has emphasized the importance of consistency of treatment amongst staff, as well as suggesting that a social media policy can be important when seeking to regulate non work-related messages.

State Pension decision should only be temporary

You may have seen in the press recently that the Government has announced that the ‘triple lock’ for State Pensions in 2022/23 will become a ‘double lock’. What does this mean for pensioners?

What are reasonable steps to prevent workplace harassments?

An employer who argued that it had taken ‘all reasonable steps’ to prevent harassment by providing training to its employees, failed on the basis that the training had become ‘stale’.

The Importance of Pension Auto-Enrolment

The London-based business, which has 5,000 employees, failed to properly enrol a number of its staff into the company pension scheme and made incorrect contributions for others…. and then failed to heed a penalty notice issued by TPR.

How should employers handle employees’ post holiday quarantine?

Currently, going on holiday is a little bit like a rubbish lucky dip – will we be able to go? If we can’t, will we get our money back? If we can, will some new restrictions come in part-way through the break meaning we have to quarantine on our return?

Annual Leave and Holiday Requests

One of the biggest headaches for employers is managing the company’s annual leave.

The tricky task however is ensuring that whilst some employees are on annual leave, you’re left with enough people to carry out the day to day activities of the company, and that no real problems arise because staff are away.

Important Update – IR35 (off payroll working)

With all the uncertainty currently, the government has given businesses and individuals some welcome relief by postponing the IR35 (otherwise known as off payroll working) extension to medium and large companies in the private sector from 6 April 2020 to 6 April 2021.