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Know your employment law solicitor before you hire them
from:In most cases it is not easy to hire employment law solicitors since they are difficult to find in UK. In this region you can find two kinds of legal representatives. There are employment law solicitors who function as advisors and advise their clients and the second kinds are barristers who can take your case to court and argue for it. In other court cases where a trial is a must, the plaintiff is allowed to hire a solicitor who will first advise him and also help him to get a barrister to represent his case.
Employment law in the US has a number of complex clauses that should be thoroughly examined before taking up a case. In fact most of the attorneys and solicitors have to deal with a number of tricky situations and strange cases that keep coming up in their general course of work. One such issue is sex in the workplace. Even though having sex in the work place is not a criminal offence yet the accused parties can be brought to book if the employers want it. For instance if you are an employer and the accused are two consenting adults, you are empowered to file a case against them if employment law has a clause about using office property.
So if the office premises have been used in the above case you can issue a warning (verbal/written) through your solicitors or also fire them in extreme cases. At the same time even if the company employment law does not have such a clause the offending parties can be still punished on grounds of misconduct. If an individual has been fired on charges of having sex in the office, he or she has the choice to take up the case with an employment tribunal. However, before taking such decision, discretion is advised since most of these employment law tribunals are open to the press and the public.
Most people don’t want to generate unwanted negative publicity in their personal lives. To be charged with having sex in the work place and making the whole world know about it, is difficult for most people. There is another issue that comes up frequently in employment law cases. In employment law there are clauses for employees to work from home in their notice period and get paid for his services and other benefits too. This is usually the case when a senior employee who is well-versed with loads of sensitive information about the organization is leaving the company.
It therefore will become difficult for you (employer) to let go of the employee since the person concerned knows trade secrets and might become a threat to the company’s growth, if absorbed by a rival organization. Therefore employment law contains a clause that states that the employee cannot join any other organization till his garden leave has expired. In most employment law cases this clause is present but it can only be enforced to a reasonable extent.
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