Employment Advice

NYFVO has a full-time Employment Advice team offering information and support to the voluntary and community sector in York and North Yorkshire. We understand the difficulties faced by voluntary and community organisations in employing and managing staff. The Employment Advice team have considerable knowledge and experience of employment law and practice and we are here to help anyone involved in the running and management of voluntary or community organisations in North Yorkshire.

Advice

We can provide free one-to-one advice by telephone, email or in person on matters as diverse as recruitment and induction, contracts, disciplinary and grievance procedures, sickness absence, equality and diversity, discrimination, and the so-called “family-friendly” rights (such as parental leave, the right to request flexible working and maternity, paternity and adoption leave).

Information

Guidance Notes drafted by the Employment Advice team on a range of employment topics are available to download below. The Employment Advice team also provides regular updates on changes to employment law and practice in NYFVOnews (NYFVO newsletter) and on NYFVOnet.

Training

We can provide low cost, high quality training courses on any aspect of employing and managing staff in a voluntary and community organisation, at venues across York and North Yorkshire. If you have a training need, we will try to meet it. Our current training profile (which can be added to and amended on request) includes sessions/ and workshops on:
- contracts of employment
- recruitment andselection
- induction andsupervision
- managing absence
- disciplinary and grievance procedures
- fair andunfair dismissal
- “family-friendly“ rights
- stress at work

If you are interested in finding out more about these or any other employment issues, we would be happy to discuss your particular training requirements with you.

For further information contact Rod Smith or Maggie Lawton at employment.advice@nyfvo.org.uk or by telephone on 01347 825710.

Employment Law Guidance Notes

Brief Guidance Notes on various aspects of employment law and practice are now available below, by emailing, employment.advice@nyfvo.org.uk or by contacting Maggie or Rod on 01347 825710. A selection of the topics covered is listed below. The notes are for general information only, and advice should be sought before applying them to particular situations or problems. If you are looking for information on a subject that is not in the list, please contact us and we will see what we can do!

• Age Discrimination
• Carrying Over Holidays
• Changing Contract Terms
• Civil Partnership Act
• Compassionate Leave
• Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (& 2005 update)
• Discrimination - General Notes
• Dispute Resolution Regulations
• Employees & Stress
• Employment Equality (Sex Discrimination) Regulations 2005
• Equal Opportunities – Good Practice
• Fair & Unfair Dismissal
• Fixed Term Contracts
• Flexible Working
• Holiday Entitlement of Employees on Long Term Sick Leave
• Maternity Rights & Related Topics
• Model Disciplinary Procedure
• Model Grievance Procedure
• Notice of Termination of Employment
• Parental Leave
• Right to be accompanied at Disciplinary/ Grievance/ Appeal Hearings
• Risk Assessment & Work Experience
• Temporary Contracts
• Termination of Employment – Redundancy & Unfair Dismissal
• Time Off for employees in family emergencies
• Smoke Free Regulations and Model Smoke Free Policy
• Who is an employee?
• Work & Families Bill
• Working Time Regulations
• Wrongful Dismissal

The Guidance Notes are in Adobe Acrobat's Portable Document Format (.pdf). Help with downloading files.

We also have a Guidance Document on the preparation of Written Statements of Main Terms and Conditions of Employment which could be useful if you are reviewing your current contracts, and model Disciplinary and Grievance procedures, all of which are available on request.

Latest National Joint Council for Local Government Services (NJC) pay scales (used by many voluntary and community organisations).

Latest HM Revenue & Customs authorised car mileage rates and the rates paid by local authorities.

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