Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay comes in to effect April 2020
This proposed change in the law can be seen as a common sense change by most employers. Whilst not confirmed, it is likely that by April 2020 it will be [...]
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12, 2019
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05, 2018
How to Undertake an Informal 1-2-1
Holding informal 1-2-1's with your team rock when it comes to good management practice in the workplace. An informal 1-2-1 is swiftly replacing the concept of formal performance reviews, or [...]
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01, 2018
Poor management driving higher levels of leavers
According to a recent Investors in People study, 47% of workers in teh UK will be looking for a new role in 2018, with 49% of the 1000 surveyed citing poor management [...]
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11, 2017
How to Implement GDPR for HR
How will GDPR impact on Employees and HR Whichever way you look at it, the soon to be introduced General Data Protection Regulations that are due to come in to [...]
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07, 2016
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 [...]