Before an employee can claim they have been “unfairly dismissed”, they normally need to have had at least two years’ service (“continuous employment”) with you. Calculating continuous employment Two years’ service is completed the day before the second anniversary of employment. An employee who starts on 1 January will have two years’ service on 31 … Read more …
Churches need to consider this question because there are significant practical differences between employees and office-holders and a number of recent cases may mean that pastors who thought they were only office-holders may actually be employees. The practical differences The table below sets out the main differences between office-holders and employees. Employee Office-holder only National … Read more …
How do you encourage Christians to be active in mission and evangelism when their nearest neighbour is more than a mile away? Christian charity Village Hope is working in rural parts of Great Britain, trying to help churches to answer that question. They are an evangelistic mission organisation seeking to support evangelists, church planters or … Read more …
