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The health and social care sector, more than any other, has its greatest asset in its workforce. Hardworking, talented, dedicated; but due to human nature, sometimes time consuming, difficult and problematic.
Working in partnership with our health and social care clients and their HR teams and senior leadership, we help them to navigate around these problems, with a joint focus on prevention rather than cure.
The High Court has today handed down Judgment in a test case where the Claimant Dr Hallett, supported by the BMA, brought proceedings against Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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Following our update in September, the Government has now announced the availability of a Social Care Compliance Scheme (the 'Scheme'), for those employers in the social care sector who think they may have underpaid their shift workers less than National Minimum Wage for sleep-ins.
As you will be aware, there has been a raft of tribunal claims brought by night-shift care workers for non-payment of wages during sleep-ins.
As the country woke up to the news that the general election of 8 June 2017 had resulted in a hung parliament, we look at what this will mean for the NHS.
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Last year, an Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision led to many workers becoming entitled to National Minimum Wage (NMW) for the whole of their shifts, including time spent asleep. This led to the government creating the Social Care Compliance Scheme (SSCS) and commissioning research into the impact of the liabilities for NMW on the social care sector.
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The Department of Health and Social Care has announced that it is commissioning further research to gauge the extent and effect of the liabilities social care providers face for underpayments of national minimum wage for sleep-in shifts.
Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 will soon bring into force a “Code of Practice on the English language requirement for public sector workers”.
The definition of ‘worker’ under the Whistleblowing legislation is already much wider than in other areas.
We provide a package of services for supporting data protection managers. Our DPA breach support services minimise the risk of a data protection breach.
The helpline is staffed by qualified employment solicitors, giving you access to sensible and practical advice.
Even many years after the implementation of the Mental Capacity Act, there is still a long way to go to get it fully embedded in health and social care practice.
In partnership with Nottingham CityCare, we have developed a fixed price end-to-end solution to handle the processing of retrospective Continuing Healthcare claims.
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