Losing Your Job
Below are our 11 articles in the 'losing your job' category:
Trade unions are not the dominant force that they were in the workplace toward the end of the last century but the benefits they bring are many and in today's employment climate there are just as ...
Once an employee has tendered resignation over a work-related issue that may not be the end of the affair. If the employee feels they had no choice but to get out of a bad situation with the ...
An Employment Tribunal is a court that only hears cases about employment and although it is a lot less formal than a High Court or other legal court the judgements made there are just as legally ...
Being made redundant is the term used to describe the process where an employee loses their job because it's no longer required as opposed to being dismissed because of some misdemeanour. Generally ...
Workers are increasingly expected to be more mobile these days and in today's whirlwind of takeovers and mergers there sometimes seems to be precious little organisational stability. Companies can ...
Legal Aid is no longer as widely available as it used to be but a solicitor is still a valuable resource if an employment dispute cannot be resolved internally and there are other ways of getting the ...
There are various forms of state support for those without jobs in addition to Jobseekers' Allowance (JSA) and Income Support (IS), which are covered in our Unemployment Benefit article in the ...
There are effectively three forms of dismissal from an employer; fair, unfair and constructive, and as the Constructive Dismissal article in this section covers constructive dismissal, this article ...
In today's business world the search for profit often leads to companies divesting themselves of service teams and hiring the work out - outsourcing - to other companies so that they can concentrate ...
The promotion of arbitration, and its cousins mediation and conciliation, since the early 1970s has revolutionised the resolution of disputes in the workplace. But what is it, how can it be used and ...
There are many rights of workers that are protected by law in the United Kingdom but as there are no 'work police' how are those laws enforced? There are two ways; either a victim takes legal action ...
