Collas Day in Guernsey merged with Crill Canavan in Jersey to form Collas Crill on 4 April 2011. This is the first edition of what will be a regular Collas Crill Employment Newsletter. We will keep you up to date with news and best practic...

Welcome to the July edition of Collas Crill's Employment Newsletter.   In this edition we look at Jersey's proposed amendments to the laws regarding the employment of children and the amended powers of Jersey's Employment...

In this month's edition of Collas Crill's Employment News we take a look at the recent and high profile decisions from Guernsey and Jersey's Employment Tribunals. In Guernsey we consider the pitfalls of getting redundancy procedure wrong a...

As we emerge from the holiday season and teams get down to business, in this edition of our Employment Newsletter we consider how to help employees, who are absent due to illness, back to work. Simon Hurry's suggestions on sickness ...

This month saw various changes to the laws in Guernsey and Jersey. In this edition we remind you about the increase in Guernsey's minimum wage rates and about Jersey's strict protections now imposed for the employment of children. ...

In this month's Employment News we look at two important developments in the UK's employment laws and how these developments could impact on the Channel Islands. In particular, we focus on the government's latest attempts to reduce th...

In this month's newsletter we end the year by looking at workplace issues that commonly arise during the festive season. With office parties, hangovers, absenteeism and sick leave all on the increase, it is important for employers to ...

In this, the first edition of Collas Crill's Employment News of 2012, our employment law specialist Emma Parr looks back at a year of cost cutting and redundancies for Channel lsland employers. And, although at first sight it might be ...

Although the economic climate in 2012 is set to pose further challenges, the aim of Collas Crill's employment law team is to continue to ensure that employers in Jersey and Guernsey get the advice they need for their businesses to remain sus...

Although an employer may have a contractual obligation to make a payment to an employee in the event of redundancy, there is no statutory right to redundancy pay in Guernsey. This is a Summary Guide for Empoyers to deal with this possible situation.

The Security Interests (Jersey) Law 1983, governing the creation of security over intangible movables, is due to replaced in 2012 and will offer secured parties new flexible methods of creation of security to enhance their position. This Factsheet explains the new law and suggests what a secured lender should be doing now.

Much has been made of the recent Court of Appeal decision relating to the dismissal of Sharon Shoesmith from her post as director of Haringey Children’s Services. A post in which she earned £133,000 a year. Emma Parr looks at the importance of ensuring fair procedure in dismissals.

In a recent judgment handed down by the Royal Court in the case of Luxicabs Limited v Baal, the Bailiff has confirmed that an award of compensation made by the Jersey Employment Tribunal creates a debt between the parties to those proceedings, which can be enforced before the Jersey courts at the instigation of the successful party in the event that the losing party does not pay the sum awarded by the Tribunal.

Simon Hurry reviews the new 2010 provisions in Jersey’s Health and Safety Law come into force, strengthening the island’s health and safety regulations for the benefit of both employers and employees.

Fraud is a substantial and growing problem to which all businesses are exposed. In this article we deal with possible prevention and detection measures and action that can be taken.