Business Principles
Here to ease the pressures of staff management, the face2faceHR blog is regularly updated with content to help with the challenges of a growing small business.
Sometimes as an employer you need to make changes to employees’ terms and conditions for good business reasons. As a first step...
Clarity on what the terms and conditions of employment actually are is key to managing employees effectively and fairly. But sometimes terms...
We have discussed reasons why a business would make changes to an employee’s terms and conditions. In this article we will...
Changing terms and conditions for your employees should not be undertaken lightly, as it can represent a legal risk as well...
It can be frustrating and worrying when you have spent time conducting a thorough investigation, gathered evidence and involved several employees in...
We have discussed the disciplinary hearing process, how to handle witnesses and the burden of proof in a case but it is...
If you are conducting a disciplinary procedure due to allegations of misconduct on the part of an employee, and particularly in a...
Witnesses can provide vital information for a company to make a fair and suitable decision in a disciplinary matter. They can be...
Disciplinary hearings are stressful and challenging for all involved, and in a smaller business even more so. Relationships in small businesses...
Having to defend a claim of unfair dismissal or detriment due to having made a protected disclosure (whistleblowing) can be difficult, expensive,...
We have previously explored what whistleblowing is and what legal protection a whistleblower is entitled to but what should you actually do...
If someone working for you has raised a concern that falls under whistleblowing protection (see here for what qualifies as whistleblowing) then...