Three Difficult Questions You Need To Ask Yourself Before 2016 By now, it’s highly likely that you’ll have asked yourself the big, important, and very obvious questions about how your business measured up during the past year. You’ll know how much you increased your turnover, how many new staff you recruited, and what your goals…
How To Nail Your 2016 HR Planning Most business owners, with an established organization, know the importance of using the end of the year as a chance to review their people policies, consider the achievements and challenges of the past 12 months, and do some careful planning for the future. Keeping on top of your…
How To Reward Your Staff This Christmas On a Budget With Christmas creeping up on us, employees all over the country are pulling out the stops to ensure that they’re playing their part in driving sales and keeping happy customers coming back for more. In short, your staff are working hard to help you to…
All The Answers You Need To Your Christmas HR Questions While most people begin to look forward to a little rest and recuperation over the Christmas period, it’s around about now that managers and business owners start to think about the nitty gritty, practical issues that they’ll have to contend with to keep their workforce…
How To Welcome New Staff Into Existing Teams Recruiting a new member of staff for your growing business can be a really exciting time, but the successful integration of a new member of the team is something that benefits from a little forward planning. One of the key challenges that you’re going to…
Employment Law Changes – October 2015 Round-up The government and decision makers have been very busy! There are a number of employment law changes that are due to take effect from October 2015 and we have decided that it is best to give you the key details on these so that you can look to…
Marriage Allowance – What is it? If you are married or in a civil partnership you may be entitled to get up to £212 a year with the governments introduction of the marriage allowance. The marriage allowance was introduced on the 6th April 2015. It allows up to 10% of a spouses or civil…
Associative Disability Discrimination – Operations Manager Unfairly Dismissed An employment tribunal has found an employer has committed associative disability discrimination against one of their employees. The employee indicated that he would be spending more time caring for his daughter, who has cystic fibrosis, in order to help care for her and was dismissed shortly after.…
Changes to Laws on Tobacco, E-Cigarettes and Smoking We have all heard and seen in various publications the dangers of second-hand smoke, in particular the risks they pose to children. Through studies the chemicals we breathe in have been linked to causing serious health conditions such as cancers, meningitis, bronchitis and pneumonia, to name…
National Minimum Wage Fine Increased for Non-conforming Employers The maximum fine for an employer’s failure to pay an employee the National Minimum Wage has been increased. Until the 25th May the maximum penalty that could be imposed was £20,000 per notice of national minimum wage underpayment, which was the same fine regardless of the number…
