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Auntie Advice
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Expenses claims - are they all legitimate?
I am the HR Manager at a large marketing company. I have recently discovered that an employee has submitted exaggerated expenses claims for payment in respect of hotel bills and taxi fares for client trips (the amount claimed looks very high) and I also suspect that some expenses claimed do not appear to be for a client or company related matter.  I am concerned that other employees may be doing the same. What are the company’s options for in responding to this situation and is there anything we can do to prevent this happening again in the future?
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Top Tips
today's top tip
Holidays: Going loco down in Acapulco?
Maybe not with the current swine flu situation in Mexico. However, the holiday season is fast approaching and with it the headaches that it can throw up for those left holding the fort in HR. So, here are our top tips on dealing with them.
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News
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United approach to length of service?
Rebecca Ekundayo considers the implications of the Court of Appeal’s ruling in Rolls Royce v Unite the Union [2009] EWCA Civ 387, in which it was decided that use of a length of service criterion in a redundancy selection process did not amount to indirect age discrimination.
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HR Focus
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The UK’s new immigration regime, 6 months on: Five Tiers, and Five tips
Although the first elements of the UK’s “tough, new Australian style” Points Based System for immigration were implemented at the end of February 2008, and the roll-out has continued in stages since, the most significant impact – supposedly the “D-day” for employers – has been the introduction of Tier 2 at the end of November. 
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