Employment Law Scotland

There are many ways of approaching "people management" and while many employers strive to be the employer of choice, there are others who take a bottom line approach – offering minimum rights. However, as an employer you have certain duties towards your staff to ensure they are provided with a suitable, safe working environment, and that their terms of employment meet statutory requirements.

Whichever your approach, your systems and procedures must offer your employees their minimum rights.  This involves putting in place appropriate terms of employment, observing health and safety regulations, and issuing clear policies regarding sick pay, holidays, maternity rights, discrimination and other matters. Over recent years, we have seen a number of major changes to employment law directly, as well as a number of tweaks to existing legislation and there is more still to come!

With a team of employment law specialists on your side, which includes an Accredited Specialist in Employment Law, Thorntons will work with you to develop, implement and review your systems and procedures to keep up to date with your responsibilities as well as providing training to ensure your staff are aware of their responsibilities. They also advise on other areas of the law which human resource professionals and business owners need to be aware of, such as data protection, disability discrimination and so on.

With access to both employment law specialists and a large team of business lawyers, Thorntons are geared up to ensure that you stay on the right side of the law.

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Age Discrimination - Are you ready? (pdf) Client Alert, April 2006.

Buying or selling your business - employment pitfalls (pdf) Client Alert, March 2006

Smoking at Work (pdf) Client Alert, February 2006

Adjustment of Compensation Awards (pdf) Client Alert, September 2005

Sick Employees and their Entitlement to Holiday Pay (pdf) Client Alert, June 2005

The information contained in Thorntons Client Alerts was correct at the time of print. For more information please contact the author of the Alert.

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