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For service industries such as the independent health and social care sector, staffing costs can be as much as 70% of the running costs of a business.

Our employment law and HR team will advise you on creative ways of using staff in order to try and reduce costs as much as possible and to make sure you and your customers receive best value. For example, by offering advice on seeking volunteers, using fixed term and casual workers, taking on apprentices, engaging staff through an agency or appointing consultants on a self-employed basis.

We are available to advise you on all types of atypical working, including:

When is a worker an employee?
The rights of agency workers’ under the Agency Workers Regulations 2010.
Your responsibilities for apprentices and volunteers.

Treatment of fixed-term workers and the limitations on successive rolling contracts.

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Legal updates

Health law newsletter September 2015

Download Browne Jacobson's health law newsletter for September 2015 for a topical overview of what is happening in your sector.

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Don't risk your sponsor licence

Hayley Gilbert discusses the potential implications of not informing the UK Visas and Immigration Service of the actual job role that a migrant worker will be undertaking. This follows a recent case where an employer’s licence to sponsor was revoked.

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Legal updates

Exclusivity clauses chopped as stance toughens on ‘abusive’ zero-hours contracts

The government has delivered one of its General Election pledges – the use of exclusivity clauses in zero-hours contracts is now banned.

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Legal updates

National minimum wage issues in the care sector

Reports of breaches in National Minimum Wage (NMW) are rife at the moment and appear here to stay for the foreseeable future.

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