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The Three Key Elements of Staff Wellbeing
Staff Wellbeing in the Modern Day Modern business practices have begun to place increasing consideration on staff wellbeing and everything which this entails. Most people in the workforce will spend a huge part of their waking lives at work, with...
Employment Law Changes for 2019: Things Employers Need to Know
As we proceed with pace into 2019, now would be a good time to look at the developments in employment law so you know what’s coming your way in the year ahead: Settled Status for EU workers As part of the government’s post-Brexit plans, European...
Top Tips: Setting up a Payroll
So you have taken the plunge and set up your own business and started employing people (see our other ‘top tips’ articles on how best to do this), now you will need to have the capability to pay them appropriately and meet your Pensions Automatic...
Job Roles That Can Help Utilise Your Transferable Skills After the Military
There’s a large misconception that there aren’t transferable skills that can help military personnel when they leave the service. Finding a career can appear difficult to some considering the how many of your years are dedicated to the service....
Great North Run 2018
Director running in aid of St Barnabas Hospice Trust (Lincolnshire) It’s that time of year again when Adam Davey is donning his trainers on 9th September to run in the world’s largest half marathon, the Great North Run, for the 14th time. Having...
Top Tips: Recruitment
Hiring the right employee is a challenging process. Hiring the wrong employee is expensive, costly to your business and time-consuming. Hiring the right employee, on the other hand: Pays you back in employee productivity, a...
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...
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...
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Shared parental leave and pay scheme to be extended to working grandparents?
Shared parental leave and pay scheme to be extended to working grandparents The Government has announced that it is planning to extend the current scheme of shared parental leave and pay to include working grandparents by 2018. A consultation is expected to be...
Are you aware of the increase in living wage rate?
The living wage rate has increased by 40p an hour from £7.85 to £8.25 from 2nd November 2015. The London living wage has risen by 25p an hour from £9.15 to £9.40. The increase in the UK living wage rate, which is calculated according to the cost of living, will result...
Harness the power of Social Media to drive your Employee Benefits Scheme
Social media has wide uses for employee benefits, but employers are just starting to realise its value as an engagement and communication channel. But there are several top tips to consider for harnessing its power: 1. Use internal networks There are a range of...
What makes a good boss?
What makes a great boss? This list of things managers can do to make employees happy, culled from a recent survey of office workers, suggest would-be leaders would do well to focus on the freebies rather than the theory. The top ten bad things managers can do to make...
More companies to ditch yearly performance reviews – PwC
More companies 'to ditch yearly performance reviews' – PwC More large companies could scrap annual performance reviews in a bid to improve employee engagement, according to a new report by PwC. The firm's 2015 Performance Management Research, which surveyed 100...
One in five employers will not seek Auto Enrolment advice
One in five employers will not seek Auto Enrolment advice The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published guidance to help the 1.3m small and micro businesses preparing for auto-enrolment find a good quality scheme, after 20% said they will not seek advice. Its recent...
Cost of childcare still a problem for 61 per cent of working mums
Government proposals ‘too focused’ on early years rather than school-aged children, report finds The high cost of childcare is still the main barrier preventing mothers from returning to work, according to annual survey results from jobs site workingmums.co.uk....
Warning of Auto Enrolment ‘train wreck’ in January
Warning of Auto Enrolment ‘train wreck’ in January The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals has warned of widespread non-compliance in auto-enrolment from January, as thousands of small businesses prepare to hit their deadlines. During the CIPP conference on...
More than one in ten employers miss deadline for Auto Enrolment
More than one in ten employers miss deadline for Auto Enrolment Some 13% of employers start preparing for auto-enrolment after their staging date has passed, according to research Analysis of NOW: Pensions’ client base found 19% completed their application in the...
HR study finds employers review preference changing
New HR study finds UK employers shifting away from annual performance reviews to ongoing dialogue Top performing UK employers no longer rate employees, instead provide coaching and development opportunities Continuous feedback replaces yearly event Performance...