Having some time off over Christmas and New Year allows time to think and plan. New ideas are born and business plans developed. Its an exciting time for new businesses. The early stages of development and the prospect of doing something for yourself is motivating. But it can be daunting too …
Back in the summer we began discussing what we might do for our team building event this year. For the past two years we have been to the Escape Rooms in Salisbury after our annual training and development day which has been really good fun. But this year we wondered what we could do that was different. …
An EU court recently awarded a man 13 years of backdated holiday pay. The EU court supported the man's claim for 13 years worth of unpaid and untaken annual leave despite him having a "self-employed commission-only" contract. His employers had refused to pay him holiday pay on the basis that he was "self-employed" and therefore any holiday he took was unpaid. This decision is significant …
