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Know the retirement rules

Sikin Andela, partner at Glovers Solicitors, warns of potential legal battles over requests to work beyond retirement age and reveals how to avoid them.

Spice up the nine to five

How about Latin lessons in your lunch break, or a long weekend in Brazil?

Q&A: Company restructuring

Is there a set format we should follow when we interview all of our staff pending a restructure?

Q&A: Holiday entitlement for employees

After more than ten years’ working full-time for a company are you legally entitled to have longer holidays?

Q&A: Employee satisfaction surveys

How can an organisation achieve results through employee satisfaction surveys?

Q&A: Autocratic management and bullying

What can I do if my boss is sarcastic and puts me down a lot in front of my colleagues? I’m not sure it constitutes bullying but it is really getting to me and affecting my work, which makes it worse.

Q&A: European employment law

How does European employment law affect voluntary overtime?

Q&A: Employers holding personal details

Our HR dept has stated that it is now a company requirement to submit our passports and birth certificates for scrutiny and photocopies are being held on file. Is this legal?

Q&A: Providing a written reference

If you have been asked to give a reference for someone who has a written warning on their file do you mention the warning in the new job reference?

Q&A: Hiring a foreign national

What paperwork is required to employ a foreign national?

"There's no such thing as failure, only feedback"

The challenges David Ferry faced when starting and growing his business, Ferry Financial.

"The Business is out there"

Neil O'Connell's advice for budding entrepreneurs is "don't panic".

"There's no such thing as failure, only feedback"

David Ferry set up his business, Ferry Financial, because he believed there was a better way to do financial management