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Work Place Pensions: A Guide To Auto Enrolment – 2020 UPDATE
It’s now been over eight years since changes to the Pensions Act have required all Employers, under Auto Enrolment, to provide workers with a Work Place Pensions Scheme. Indeed, many of those companies who first enrolled will have been through...
COVID-19: Face coverings at work
Last week marked the beginning of further measures to protect us against the COVID-19 pandemic, including face coverings at work From the 24th of September all pubs, restaurants & bars will be forced to shut their doors at 10pm. The use of face...
Update: COVID Business Support Measures September 2020
On the 24th September, Chancellor Rishi Sunak MP outlined additional Government COVID Business Support Measures. These aim to provide certainty for businesses and workers impacted by Coronavirus across the UK. This is especially important now, in...
How to Motivate Your Employees Without Money
Knowing how to motivate employees without money can be hard as often the go-to option is salary increase or bonuses. You might not want to go down that route, or not have the resources to support it. Especially now, in the COVID-19 era, businesses...
What’s the DNA of your company, and would a genetic test help to reduce employee absenteeism?
One of our partners Mudho Health are writing a series of blogs to provide a range of insights into how our DNA can influence our well-being. Offering insight into why people do what they do can provide understanding on how to manage people...
2020 and The Role of HR in COVID-19
For the first time in my career, HR has been one of the top priorities for every organisation as they have navigated through the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Can I hear my colleagues in Health & Safety and Payroll also celebrating...
How to Develop an Integrated HR Strategy
Why do I need a HR Strategy? Whether you are a small business owner or an ambitious employee, the dream is what gets you up, keeps you motivated and keeps you going when frustration sets in. Unlike DelBoy in Only Fools and Horses who took each day...
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Benefits Cloud: Employee Benefits for Small Business UK [2020]
What are Employee Benefits? Traditional benefits are still as important as ever, including annual leave, a company pension and career progression. However, employee benefits are becoming essential for today’s workforce. And that is especially so...
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Top 10 Tips for Working from Home
With many businesses now encouraging or even mandating that employees work from home, millions of people can expect to have their daily routines and work styles impacted. But not everyone is accustomed to working from home. Getting into work mode from a...
IR35 ‘on-hold’ for 12 months
The Government last night announced they are postponing the reforms to the off-payroll working rules, also know as IR35, from 6 April 2020 to 6 April 2021. This is in light of the recent COVID-19 outbreak and was announced among a £330bn financial package for the UK...
The Digital College and Petaurum Solutions offering Accredited Online Training
We’re thrilled to bring the Digital College on board with us and to offer their accredited online training courses on our website. These courses cover a broad range of subjects and support individual learners and organisation training needs. The Digital College online...
Budget 2020: Coronavirus advice for HR and SMEs
Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced his 2020 Budget yesterday with a clear focus on Coronavirus and getting the country through the outbreak. One of his main focuses was on protecting employers and employees in the event of self-isolation and forced shutdowns. Last week...
Champions of Gender Equality – International Women’s Day
This Sunday is International Women’s Day so we’re celebrating by looking at some of the companies in the UK who champion gender equality. The odds are stacked against women in the workplace, with the UK ranking 21st in the Global Gender Gap Index 2020 rankings and...
Protect Your Workplace and Employees from Coronavirus
With the situation changing almost by the hour, it’s important to keep abreast of the latest advice from Government and other official sources. From an employer’s perspective, here’s our latest advice: What should I be doing now? The government has been praised for...
Our Charity Challenge for The Children’s Air Ambulance
Last week, we attended the Doncaster Business Showcase event and in a spur of the moment decision, signed up for the 10TENK challenge. What is that you might ask? The challenge will see us run 10 x 10k in 12 months – or if you’re Adam, 10 days! – to raise money for...
7 Tips to Stay Motivated When Working from Home
Working from home is more popular than ever, with flexible working hours and work-from-home options being two of the most important workplace benefits employees look for. The benefits of remote working include increased flexibility, no commuting and better job...
Why do I need to bother with HR?
As a small business, you might wonder why you should bother with HR. But then as time goes by and your business, and people needs, grow, you may find yourself coming across more and more difficult employment situations. These could be easily avoided by having...
What impact will immigration changes have on my business?
As part of the Government’s Brexit pledge yesterday (19th Feb 2020), the Home Secretary announced the changes to the immigration process as a result of the cessation of the free movement of workers from January 2021 The key changes announced were: The salary threshold...