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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...
Top Tips: Managing your People
Here are a few of our favourite pointers for good people management: Maintain Good Communication Employees want to be kept in the loop about ongoing projects, goals, and deadlines, so it’s essential that you communicate well with them and inform...
Top Tips: Managing Change
Change…….to make or become different, to take or use another instead of, to give up or get rid of (something) in exchange for something else; an act or process through which something becomes different. Change means many different things in...
What’s the Value in Values?
To what extent do we hold ourselves accountable for our values? A young relative of mine was recently travelling on a bus when a group of laughing schoolkids, having finished drinking from a can, screwed up the can and threw it out of the window in...
Get Ready for the World Cup
The Rugby World Cup has just kicked off in Japan and excitement is mounting around trying to predict the likely winner. Can anyone stop the All Blacks? How will the Northern Hemisphere teams’ performance fair against their Southern Hemisphere...
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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...
Petaurum Solutions wins Employment & HR Specialist of the Year
We are pleased to announce that we have won the Business and Industry Today Magazines prestigious award as their Employment & HR Specialist of the Year! Below is the article published in this months edition. "Here at Business and Industry Today we are delighted to...
Pension Fear for SMEs
As reported on this news page in December last year, according to a report by employee benefits adviser Helm Godfrey, things haven’t got much better, with small and medium-sized businesses continuing to be at risk of choosing unsuitable pension schemes because of a...
Pensions Auto-Enrolment Need not be like Drawing Teeth
Pensions auto-enrolment need not be like drawing teeth The process of responsible pensions’ provision can be a ‘nightmare’ to some specialist employers, highlights Mark Dyer of Petaurum Solutions, but with the three years’ restaging cycle upon us, the doors have been...
Accountants letting SMEs down on auto-enrolment advice
Almost half of accountants admit to not knowing enough about auto-enrolment despite nearly two-thirds of SMEs turning to their accountants for advice about the pension legislation. A report by employee benefits adviser Helm Godfrey has raised concerns over the lack of...
TPR Re-Enrolment Guidance for Employers
TPR Re-enrolment guidance for employers TPR have just launched their new online content giving guidance to larger employers on their re-enrolment duties. An introductory page provides an initial overview of the steps, along with timings of when employers should aim to...
To Comply, or Not to Comply…It’s Not even a Pensions’ Question!
To comply, or not to comply…it’s not even a pensions’ question! Compliance is certainly a warm and cuddly word that contains a wealth of potentially terrifying consequences, while highlighting that employers will face enforcement issues on the Pensions Auto Enrolment...