Right to Disconnect

Protecting Work-Life Balance and Legal Compliance

The modern workplace has blurred the boundaries between work and personal life, making the right to disconnect increasingly important for both employers and employees. At Employment Solutions, we provide comprehensive guidance on managing working hours, employee rights, and obligations in this evolving legal landscape.

From part-time and zero-hour contracts to workplace harassment, restrictive covenants, and emerging issues such as artificial intelligence in the workplace, we help employers and employees navigate the complexities of employment law while protecting well-being and legal compliance.

Our Services in the Right to Disconnect area

  • Part Time Workers
  • Compensation for Unfair Dismissal: how is it calculated?
  • Employment Termination Notice Periods
  • Retirement Clauses in Contract – Are they legal?
  • Mandatory Retirement – Supreme Court Decision 2024
  • Severance/Settlement Agreements – can they be relied on?
  • Restraint/non-compete clause in a Termination Agreement
  • Status of Worker: Employee or Independent Contractor? Important Case Law
  • Serious Repercussions for incorrectly describing worker
  • Time Limits in Employment Law – don’t get caught out!
  • Zero Hour Employment Contracts
  • Gender Pay Gap Reporting
  • Can Employee be dismissed for acts committed outside the Workplace?
  • How to handle Employee charged with criminal offence
  • Does a Custodial Prison Sentence terminate an employee’s employment?
  • Restrictive Covenants – are they enforceable? Recent Case Law
  • Supreme Court Decision on Picketing Injunction
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Zero Hours Working Practices
  • A-Typical Workers
  • Grievances at Work and the Grievance Procedure
  • Absenteeism
  • Bullying in the Workplace
  • Code of Practice on Workplace Bullying
  • Harassment in the Workplace
  • Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
  • Suspension of Employee: With Pay? Without Pay? Not at All?
  • Verbal Warnings and Written Warning
  • Persistent Sick Leave – what to do?
  • Protected Disclosure: “Whistleblowing”
  • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
  • ‘On Call’ working time? AOC
  • Reinstatement of employee who resigned in special circumstances. AOC
  • How to defend an Equal Status claim
  • Unconscious Bias in the Workplace

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If you need expert legal advice on Right to Disconnect issues, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us today.

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