http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Iain+Mackintosh Advice Iain Mackintosh Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=366137&ca=Advice When dealing with the world of employment contracts, and legal documents in general, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by the diversity of terms and phrases used. The following is a guide to the key terms that you are likely to encounter when you find yourself discussing flexible working policies in a bus... Business Management Iain Mackintosh Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=365525&ca=Business+Management Unemployment is making all of the headlines at the moment, and over a million more job losses are expected in the next year or so. Managers around the country are frantically consulting employment contracts and legal documents, looking at redundancy procedures and assessing just how many staff they... Business Iain Mackintosh Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=356401&ca=Business In an economic downturn, every employee is likely to be double and triple checking their employment contracts and company redundancy policy so that they know what to expect if the worst comes to the worst. These documents are likely to be filled with specific legal terms, and just like any legal pro... Business Iain Mackintosh Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=355832&ca=Business In this straightened economic climate, redundancy is a threat faced by millions of UK employees. Large corporations are hitting the headlines by making thousands of their employees redundant, but redundancy could happen at a company of any size when things get tough and businesses are forced to cut... Business Management Iain Mackintosh Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=355343&ca=Business+Management Redundancies and downsizing are unfortunate, but often an inevitable measure for a business, especially in the current economic climate. There are, however, many factors that you have to take into account with your redundancy policy, one of the most important of these being redundancy pay. It is imp... Business Management Iain Mackintosh Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=355358&ca=Business+Management History is strewn with redundancy and ruin. Though some falls from power are more graceful than others, there is something to be learned from each one. Here are a selection of great collapses to entertain and inform. Mussolini is overthrown Ousted from power and arrested in the summer of 1943, Musso... Business Management Iain Mackintosh Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=355360&ca=Business+Management There’s nothing less pleasant than an unsought redundancy, particularly if the fellow doing the firing makes Otto Von Bismarck look like a soft-spoken, conscientious old soul. We at Simply-Docs thought we’d have a look at the five very worst ways that one could choose to fire an employee, and just w... Business Management Iain Mackintosh Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=346412&ca=Business+Management As the economic crisis worsens and company after company goes to the wall, every manager is focusing on how to keep their business afloat. In many cases, this involves trimming overheads and making redundancies. This process is painful – no one likes letting staff go – but frequently necessary. As b... Legal Iain Mackintosh Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=342551&ca=Legal Basic Maternity Leave The UK is often thought of as good on parental rights, maternity leave rights and pregnancy leave in general. It is true that compared to many other countries around the world, Britain is fairly advanced. However, it lags behind other countries (mostly Scandinavia) in some aspe... Business Iain Mackintosh Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=341971&ca=Business So, business managers up and down the country are preparing to bid farewell to 2008 and usher in a whole new year. Over the last 12 months, we’ve seen changes to flexible working, dispute resolution and even how companies that cause a person’s death are dealt with. What’s in store for 2009? Well, he...