Garden Leave

Garden Leave, sometimes also called Patio Leave, refers to an employee who is under notice (whether because he has been dismissed or because he has resigned) not being required to work during his notice period.

While on Garden Leave, an employee is not permitted to work for another employer, but receives full pay subject to tax and national insurance as normal.

Garden Leave can be used by employers to protect their business interests by keeping employees under notice out of the business and preventing them from working for a competitor straight away. By the time the notice period, and hence the Garden Leave, is over, the employee’s knowledge of the business will have started to become out of date and will pose less of a threat to the employer’s business.

It is very common for sales people to be put on Garden Leave when they resign.

Gibbons Report

The Gibbons Report was a review by Michael Gibbons of the Statutory Dispute Resolution Regulations, which came into effect on 1st October 2004. 

Grievance

A grievance is a complaint by an employee about action an employer has taken or is proposing to take.  It must be in writing.  The Employment Act 2002 introduced the idea of a statutory grievance procedure.  Employees must follow this procedure before they can bring certain types of claims in the Employment Tribunal.

Guarantee Payments

In circumstances in which an employee is given no work to do during his normal working hours he may be entitled to a minimum fall back payment from his employer known as a gurantee payment.  This typcially occurs in lay off and short-time.  The rules are complex and are contained in the Employment Rights Act.