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Presenteeism: Can Employee Dedication Go Too Far?
The term “presenteeism” was originally used to describe employees who come to work whilst they are physically or mentally unwell, rather than taking sickness absence to recover. Over time this term has evolved to include employees who are...
How A Small Business can Build a Scalable, Positive Workplace Culture
In the simplest of terms, the better your company culture is, the better your people will perform. A huge 91% of executives believe that improving their company’s culture would increase the company’s value. With the majority of today’s workforce...
How Can an Employer Identify Workplace Stresses?
Work can be stressful for us all, whether it’s meeting deadlines or being thrown into the deep end on a big project, it’s rarely plain sailing no matter what industry you work in. Even though we all expect stress at work, it’s important that as...
Solving the Millennial Dilemma in the Workplace: A Practical Guide
There is no denying that millennials are the largest of any other generation. Those born between 1980 and mid-nineties are considered to be millennials and they have been given a pretty bad reputation over the years. They are painted as be disloyal...
Why is Employee Reward and Recognition Important? (2022 Updated)
Most business owners have clear goals to reduce their costs whilst improving the quality, and sometimes quantity, of work coming from their employees. In a competitive business climate, careful considerations need to be made when it comes to...
The Millennial Workforce: How & Why You Should Increase Their Loyalty
In recent decades it seems as if the world has been become a more complicated place. With the hasty increase in technological innovation focused on everyday life, it is widely accepted that there are significant changes between more recent...
Stress in the Workplace
Stress Awareness Week is designed to raise awareness of stress and its impact in both personal and working lives. It also aims to reduce stigma while promoting the importance of well-being and stress reduction. Stress affects millions of people...
Top Tips: Pensions Auto Enrolment
It’s now been nearly six years since changes to the Pensions Act has required all companies, under Auto Enrolment, to provide workers with a Workplace Pension Scheme. Pensions Auto Enrolment represented a fundamental change in the way pensions are...
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Top Tips: Employment Contracts and Policies
Time flies from those early days when you set-up your business and take-on your first employee; but have you paused to think about whether you have appropriate governance and compliance in place around the employment issues facing you now and in the future? If the...
Get Ready for the World Cup
The World Cup kicks off in just a few days and as always, excitement is mounting around the trying to predict the likely winner, who’ll get the golden boot, what will be the outcome of the inevitable penalty shoot-out, etc. At work it can be great fun and create good...
Pensions Regulator begins spot checks in East Midlands to ensure Auto Enrolment compliance
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has begun carrying out spot checks across the East Midlands to make sure employers are complying with their pension duties. Inspection teams will visit dozens of businesses in the East Midlands this month to check employers are meeting...
Tax-free childcare roll out
Tax-free childcare roll out The implementation of Tax-Free Childcare, the new government scheme to help working parents with the cost of childcare, is being rolled out to eligible parents in stages. The scheme first made its debut in April 2017 and although there have...
Petaurum Solutions sponsor Rustons Sports FC Under 13’s kit
We are delighted to announce our support of grassroots football with the sponsorship of Rustons Sports FC Under 13’s away kit. Rustons Sports FC Under 13’s, who play in the Mid-Lincs Youth League played their first fixture in their new kit on 7th January. Adam Davey,...
Childcare Voucher Schemes due to close to new applicants from next April
Many people are unaware of upcoming changes to the Childcare Voucher Scheme, despite significant reforms coming into force in just six months. From April 2018, Childcare Voucher Schemes will be closing to new applicants. Employees who have already signed up to a...
If you don’t keep up your pension contributions or fail to stage, the Regulator WILL find out
Automatic enrolment (AE) is now business as usual for most employers. As outlined in the Pension Regulators latest compliance and enforcement bulletin, the level of enforcement work they carry out has increased along with the number of employers who have AE duties to...
Mental Health in the Workplace Guide Published
To coincide with World Mental Health Day, Acas has produced new guidance to help organisations support employees who may be suffering from poor mental health. Acas earmarks the role of the manager as pivotal when supporting employee wellbeing. Whilst the manager is...
The Dream Match Sponsorship for Local Company!
With the magic of the FA Cup, they say “anything can happen” – and it certainly did for lifelong Imps fan, Adam Davey, and his fellow company director – the lifelong Don, Mark Dyer. Two football teams, two Directors, one HR company and a magical FA Cup weekend…the two...
One in Four Small firms miss Auto Enrolment Staging Date
One in four small firms miss AE staging date One in four small firms (25%) have missed their deadline or (staging date) for auto-enrolling their staff into a pension scheme. This is an increase from less than one in five (18%) in Q3 2016, according to workplace...