Any troubling employee issues?   In the last blog I dealt with the question of Intellectual Property.   Another hard lot of questions you will have to answer will be to do with your Employees.     You have maintained good employee records and everyone has signed an Employment Contracts, you have written a Staff handbook, and you feel that nothing much can go wrong.  One of the questions you will be asked is to provide full details of:   Outstanding and anticipated claims by past or present employees or officers for re-engagement or compensation or with reference to discrimination or victimisation or otherwise.   This is the point at which you realise you have a problem.  It is truly amazing how often this happens. Some of the examples I have seen that have held up a deal until they were resolved are: Employee on long term sick leave for stress; your employee benefit sick leave insurance policy has kicked in and the … [Read more...]