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Under the new unfair dismissal rules, employees of small businesses are subject to different eligibility rules, and small businesses may use the Small Business Fair Dismissal Code. But who is a 'small business'?
Under the regulations, until 1 January 2011, a 'small business' is one that employs fewer than 15 full time equivalent employees.
In a nutshell (and this is a very broad brush summary of the regulations), you need to add up the number of ordinary hours worked in the previous four weeks by your employees, and divide the result by 152. There you have the number of full time equivalent employees you employ!
If you have any queries about unfair dismissal, or the way the rules would apply in your workplace, please call me or email me.
2009-07-14
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