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- Category: Age discrimination
- Category: Agency workers
- Taking on agency temps as permanent staff – what you need to know
- Employment rights of agency workers
- What you need to know about dealing with agencies supplying temporary workers
- Agency workers – when best to use them?
- 10 easy steps to understanding the Agency Workers Regulations for small businesses
- Category: Appearance and behaviour
- Category: Apprenticeship
- Category: Being a good manager
- Category: Brexit
- How does Brexit affect recruitment of new EU workers?
- What does the end of Brexit transition mean for European workers I currently employ?
- Planning for recruitment challenges resulting from Brexit in a small business
- Helping your EU workers through Brexit
- Assessing the impact of Brexit immigration changes on your workforce
- The impact of Brexit on employment law
- Category: Bullying
- Category: Business relocation
- Category: Changing terms and conditions
- Category: Contracts of employment
- Category: Coronavirus
- Unfair dismissal claim for raising Covid-19 concerns – new case highlights key points to protect your business
- Can I force my employees to get the Covid-19 vaccine?
- What are my options if an employee is struggling with home schooling?
- Calculating redundancy pay and notice pay for furloughed employees
- Job Retention Bonus – who can claim?
- How to handle quarantined employees travelling abroad this summer
- Seven steps to protect your business if an employee refuses to come back to work
- Annual leave and coronavirus – what’s the deal?
- What to do about probationary period during lockdown?
- What should you do about disciplinaries or grievances during lockdown?
- What happens to terms and conditions during furlough?
- What if someone refuses to work during coronavirus?
- Managing a pregnant worker during coronavirus
- Should I rehire an ex-employee so I can furlough them?
- Changes to holiday rules during coronavirus
- I don’t need to furlough everyone – who should I choose?
- I need staff to go on furlough but they won’t agree – what do I do?
- What has changed about SSP during the coronavirus crisis?
- New starters not eligible for furlough – how shall I handle them?
- What’s the difference between ‘furlough’ and ‘lay-off’?
- What to do if you have employees reluctant or refusing to self-isolate
- Lay-offs and short-time working – what you need to do if you suffer work shortages in your small business
- Category: Covid-19 Health and safety
- Category: Disability discrimination
- Category: Discipline
- Handling an appeal in an SME
- Top considerations for choosing a fair sanction
- Does an employer have to prove misconduct?
- FAQ’s for handling witnesses at a disciplinary meeting
- Logistics of a disciplinary hearing in 9 key steps
- Managing the aftermath of a disciplinary
- Companions at disciplinary hearings – our top ten FAQs
- Our guide to disciplinary investigations in small organisations
- Are you finding excuses to dismiss someone?
- Category: Diversity and inclusion
- Category: Employee benefits
- Category: Employee communication
- Category: Employee concerns
- Category: Employee consultation
- Category: Employee engagement
- Category: Employee monitoring
- What are the limits on employee monitoring information?
- When is employee monitoring lawful under data protection legislation?
- Are there problems or risks with employee monitoring other than data protection?
- What kind of employee monitoring can I do, and should I do it?
- Using evidence gained through employee monitoring in a disciplinary
- CCTV in the workplace – 5 things to consider
- Monitoring electronic communications at work – what you need to know
- Employee monitoring and the Data Protection Act
- Category: Employee wellbeing
- Category: Employment contracts
- Category: Employment law
- Employment law changes for 2020 – what does your business need to know?
- Privacy notices and information you must provide to employees and potential employees under GDPR
- Who should take responsibility for data protection in your business?
- Long term sickness absence and avoiding isolation
- Supply chains and Modern Slavery – what you need to do
- Basic principles of employment law – it’s all common sense really
- Giving up employment rights for shares
- Confused by recent employment law announcements? Key points for small business owners
- Employment law changes – what’s the deal?
- 5 easy steps to understanding the Bribery Act for small businesses
- Top ten employment law myths
- Category: Employment status
- I’m a small business so the new IR35 rules don’t apply to me – right?
- Casual worker rights
- All about zero hours contracts
- Changing employment status – what to look out for
- Employed or self-employed? What indicators should you look for?
- Employment status – who decides?
- Employed or self-employed? What indicators should you look for?
- Category: Employment tribunals
- Category: Ethics and values
- Category: Family friendly workplace
- Category: First employee basics
- Category: Flexible working
- Managing homeworking effectively
- Flexible working – its not just “going part-time”
- Refusing flexible working requests
- Flexible working – why is it good for your business?
- How to follow the right procedure when dealing with flexible working requests
- What you need to know if you’re thinking about using unpaid interns in your business
- Category: Franchise News
- Welcome to Labeeb
- Welcome to Sabiha
- Welcome to Edua
- Welcome to Rachel Weaven
- Welcome to Rachel Norrington
- Welcome to Kirsty Duck & Lisa Macdonald
- Welcome to Lorraine Canham
- Welcome to Kathryn Rodgers
- Welcome to Jane Fryatt
- Welcome to Siobhan Goodchild
- Welcome to Sue Pardy
- Kirsten at Ely Cathedral business exhibition
- Welcome to Helen Christie
- face2faceHR Cambridge donates policy to auction to raise money for five local charities
- Welcome to Kirsten Smith
- Welcome to Dawn Cross
- Category: GDPR
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- Category: Health issues
- Category: Holiday
- Category: Homeworking
- Category: HR technology
- Category: Information for employers
- Category: Learning & development
- Category: Legal cover
- Category: LGBT issues in the workplace
- Category: Long term sickness absence
- What evidence will you need to dismiss someone fairly on long term absence?
- Does an employer have to make ‘reasonable adjustments’ when there is no disability?
- What adjustments should be considered if someone is off long-term sick?
- What can you do if someone refuses to engage with a long-term absence process?
- Why is it important to maintain contact with someone on long term sick?
- Category: Looking after your employees
- Category: Managing Christmas
- Category: Mental health
- Category: Older workers
- Category: Onboarding
- Category: Part time working
- Category: Pay in a small business
- Five ways to motivate your workforce on a small budget
- Equal pay in a small business
- Pay and recruitment – three things to bear in mind
- Conducting a pay review in a small business
- Should you have a formal salary structure in your business?
- Should you have a formal salary structure in your business?
- Should you have a formal salary structure in your business?
- Category: Performance management
- 8 reasons why performance management is important for high performers
- Proactive steps to improve performance
- Why you should reduce reactive performance management?
- Seven steps to writing a good development plan
- Tips for conducting a successful performance appraisal
- Dealing with poor performance in seven steps
- Performance management in small businesses in four easy stages
- Five ways to motivate your workforce on a small budget
- Why you should stop putting off that tricky conversation
- What is their behaviour telling you?
- How focusing on the end result can resolve your employee problems
- How to avoid employee conflict and deal with it effectively
- “Protected conversations” with poor performers – will it help?
- Performance management in small businesses, why bother?
- Category: Pre-employment checks
- Category: Pregnancy and work
- Category: Proactive HR
- Category: Proactive performance management
- Category: Probation & induction
- Category: Protecting your business
- Category: Recruiting the best
- Category: Recruitment
- National living wage – things to think about
- Protecting your business when candidates lie during recruitment
- Myths about references debunked
- Pre-employment medical checks
- Checking an employee’s right to work in the UK – FAQs
- Writing effective interview questions
- Our top five tips for using recruitment agencies
- Writing an effective recruitment advertisement
- Internal recruitment – the pros and cons
- Flexible ways of filling the recruitment void
- To CV or not to CV…
- Someone’s resigned – don’t panic, it’s an opportunity!
- Does “what colour represents your personality” really get you the best person for the job?
- Quick tips for writing effective interview questions
- Category: Redundancy
- Category: Religion
- Category: Relocation
- Category: Restructuring your small business
- Category: Retirement planning
- Category: Salary
- Category: Settlement agreements
- How to approach a settlement discussion with an employee
- “Without Prejudice’ or “Protected Conversation’ – which should you use?
- When should I consider using a settlement agreement in a small business?
- Five key questions about the use of settlement agreements
- Five key questions about the use of settlement agreements
- Five key questions about the use of settlement agreements
- Category: Shared parental leave
- Category: Short term absence
- Category: Short term contracts
- Category: Sickness absence
- Organisational change and long term sickness absence
- Chronic conditions and long term sickness absence – things to consider
- Long term sickness absence pay and financial support options
- Managing return to work after long-term sickness absence
- Using Occupational Health, why you should do it, and how to make the most of it
- Statutory sick pay can no longer be claimed back
- Dismissing for long term sickness absence
- £29 billion – Why every employer should measure sickness absence
- Category: Social media
- Social media and other employee issues
- Ownership of social media
- Considering monitoring employees’ social media?
- Five reasons every employer needs a social media policy
- Social media and other employee issues
- Ownership of social media
- Considering monitoring employees’ social media?
- Five reasons every employer needs a social media policy
- Category: Stress at work
- Category: Termination issues
- Category: Time off
- Checking entitlement to shared parental leave and pay
- Emergency dependants’ leave – 7 common questions answered
- Five things small businesses need to know about compassionate leave
- Time off for medical appointments
- Employees going on jury service – some FAQs
- So what exactly do employers have to do when temperatures soar?
- Getting a head start on the Olympics
- Dealing with snowy days
- Category: Training
- Category: TUPE
- Category: Unexpected/unauthorised absence
- Category: Whistleblowing
- Category: Work and social events
- Category: Working time
- Category: Workplace environment