Employee Handbook V5 2018

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other employment and outside interests
You may want an additional job as well as your role with FRG, but it is important this does not
cause a conflict of interest or have a negative effect on doing your job with us. We also need
to check that you’re not putting your health and safety at risk because all of your working
hours together potentially putting undue strain on you.
You should ask your manager or HR about your plans before you confirm any commitments
elsewhere to guard against a possible conflict of interest and make sure everything is ok. This
also applies if you want to set up your own business or become self-employed. Although we
will never unreasonably stop you from working elsewhere, we won’t agree to anyone working
for one of our direct competitors or one of our suppliers or agents.
We do encourage our people to have a broad range of interest and activities outside of their
work as it helps to gain valuable skills and experiences. We do expect that those other
interests are not in competition or conflict with your role or work for us. If you’re not sure
whether something you want to get involved with may create a conflict of interest then please
speak to your manager.
intellectual property
In the course of your work with us, you may create certain works or solutions etc. that could
have a broader use than just for the Fuller Research Group. These may amount to what is
known as “Intellectual Property” or “IP”, and includes inventions, designs or technical
know-how. If that’s the case, you must tell us about and keep confidential all such IP and by
agreeing to employment with us, you acknowledge that the Company have rights of
ownership for any IP created. Any decisions about the protection or use of any such IP are for
us to make as a Company. Further details are outlined in your Statement of Terms and
Conditions.
confidentiality
You need to know, and follow, the guidelines about confidentiality in the area you work. In
addition, your Terms and Conditions of Employment provide details regarding your duty of
confidentiality. You must not disclose confidential information, including personal data about
clients, suppliers, respondents or other employees.
You may sometimes be entrusted with confidential information relating to a third party
organisation, its research and customer list. Please respect your privileged position and do
not disclose and information, which could undermine the reputation or commercial position of
either company.
You must keep everything you use for your work, like any papers or letters, secure both at
your workplace and elsewhere. You’ll need to return everything which belongs to us, or which
contains confidential information, if you leave the company, or anytime we ask you for it.
You must not copy, share or publish any material that is protected by copyright, unless you
have the permission of the person who owns the copyright.
business continuity management
Like any organisation we can be at risk from incidents which interrupt our business operations,
for example something unexplained happening to the company building, our systems or
our people, or any combination of these things.
If a crisis does happen, the people responsible for our crisis management response will make
sure internal and external communications are in place so we can carry on with our
essential businesses operations and that we have got effective co-ordination in place with
external agencies such as the emergency services.