Can an employer refuse a holiday request
An employees right to paid leave from work is wrapped up in the Working Time Regulations 1998, which grants all employees the equivalent of 5.6 weeks holiday per annum, for [...]
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04, 2016
Why employee engagement matters
Employee engagement is one of those HR topics that people all know something about, but is often not really understood. In this post I'll explain what employee engagement is and [...]
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04, 2016
Yorkshire and Humber Fastest Jobs Growth in the UK
On Radio 4's Today programme, it was stated that following Natwest's Quarterly Growth Survey, the Yorkshire and Humber Region had the highest jobs growth in the UK. Sounds like good [...]
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03, 2016
Unpicking the rules on holiday pay
Ever since the European Courts of Justice ruling of May 2014 there has been a fair degree of confusion over what does need to be and what can be excluded [...]
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03, 2016
Google’s approach to recruitment and ‘Googleyness’
Yvonne Agyei, the tech giant’s international HR head has revealed the secrets of what Google look for when hiring new talent, with a keen focus on who the person is [...]
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03, 2016
Managing Absence – Key Findings from 2015 Report
Every year the CIPD publishes its annual report into Absence Management and we've summarised the key findings from the report below which shows that overall absence rates are on the rise [...]
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03, 2016
National Min Wage – October 2016 rates
Following the Chancellors budget this week the Government have confirmed the planned National Wage Rates that will come in to effect from October of this year. The standard rate of [...]
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03, 2016
Third of underperforming managers still receive bonuses
According to a recent survey by Xpert HR and the CMI, they found that almost half of managers (45%) who were rated as “not meeting expectations” received a financial bonus.The [...]