Dear Rosalie One of our long serving employees is in their late 60s, and has been suffering from a form of dementia for some time. We increasingly gave him menial tasks to perform, but recently his condition got worse. His wife knew that we were struggling with her husband’s condition, but said his work was what was keeping him going. Unfortunately, however, his condition got so bad that he needed so much supervision that we decided it was best to make his position redundant.

Dear Rosalie One of our employees recently left for a better job. Fortunately she gave us plenty of notice so we deducted from her pay all of the money we spent on her expensive course qualification, that she completed just under two years ago. She has complained that this is illegal and immoral, and she will take us to Court and or Tribunal if we do not give her all of the money back. She signed a contract under which, in return for the time off and payment of course fees, s

Dear Rosalie One of our Line Managers was having some sort of session with one of his employees. She then came to see me to ask what he meant when he said she was a 'high maintenance tart'. I said I would try to find out and get back to her. I am not sure that I really want to know! I had to avoid laughing and to buy some time for a considered response. Rosalie replies: Unless you can think of a suitably bland interpretation or justify the assessment, then you may be in troub

Dear Rosalie We have a woman on maternity leave who has raised a grievance about her treatment. She is unhappy because we recently told her she would not get a pay award as we only had 5 months of the year to assess her performance. She is also unhappy that we have not kept in touch with her over issues like removing her desk and not putting her into a team for bonus purposes. We don’t think we have done anything wrong. Rosalie replies: You are in difficulty, especially with

Dear Rosalie I agreed to let a Manager go with a settlement. Unfortunately, the people responsible for implementation had no experience...

Dear Rosalie We employed an employee for 20 years. She had been invited to a disciplinary hearing, which was then postponed for three...

We are a care organisation and have received feedback from one of our carers that a European colleague had been attempting to kiss her