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