HR Services: Employee Issues
Employee Absence
Are you looking for guidance to manage an employee absence issue? Managing employee absence can be one of the trickiest situations to deal with. You want to show compassion and understanding but you have a business to run. When dealing with employee absence, there are a lot of things that you need to take into…
Employee Disciplinary
Support with Employee Disciplinary Process Employee disciplinary matters can be difficult to deal with. There’s always two-sides to a story. Emotions can be running high and the topic of the disciplinary could be very sensitive. Add in the strict legal procedures that need to be followed and not knowing what you can and can’t do…
Employee Grievance
Support to Deal With Employee Grievances from HR Experts Dealing with an employee grievance can be very challenging. You can be the best employer in the world but you’ll never please everyone all of the time. Unpopular decisions will have to be made. Or something will happen in the workplace that is beyond your control.…
Employee Performance
Support with managing poor performance There are times when poor employee performance is an obvious disciplinary matter and you can move straight to that stage. (We can help with Employee Disciplinary too, either just to offer advice or to deal with the procedure on your behalf). But there are also many occasions when poor employee performance falls…
HR Services: Employee Development
Behaviour Frameworks
Support with defining and embedding behaviour frameworks We’ve all experienced those people who are great at what they do but working with them is just horrible. They are difficult, or negative, or rude or, or, or….. Managers are often very happy to have the difficult conversations with people when they make mistakes. Equally, they tend…
Career Frameworks
Support with creating and embedding a career development framework Career progression within a small and medium business can be a challenge, and career development frameworks can help. You want to be able to demonstrate that individuals can build a career within your company without creating inflated job titles or by promoting everyone to ‘manager’ when…
Performance Appraisal
Support with Performance Appraisal Solutions Performance appraisal tends to be something businesses either embrace, ignore or conduct in a fairly half-hearted manner (because they know they should do them but don’t really want to). When tailored to your specific business and used regularly, performance appraisals can have a significant positive impact on your business. An…
HR Services: HR Strategy & Surveys
HR Strategy
Support with creating your HR Strategy Having defined your business goals you need to consider how you are going to achieve them. There’ll be marketing activity you need to undertake. Maybe launching new products and services, and potentially changes to your behind-the-scenes operations. You’ll need an HR Strategy to help you make sure that you’ve…
Employee Surveys
Get insight into your employees’ views Employee engagement surveys can offer you real insight into what your employees are experiencing at work and what they value. Surveys can be very detailed and conducted once or twice a year, or you can undertake pulse surveys on a far more frequent basis and get snap-shot information about…
HR Services: Structure & Change
Managing Redundancies
Need to manage redundancies and looking for some help? There are some elements of HR where you can do some research and be confident in moving a situation forward. This really isn’t something that we would recommend with redundancy. Redundancy situations can be very complex and difficult to manage. There is a very strict process…
Recruitment Support
Recruitment support Recruiting new employees is one of the most important things you do, however, the process can often be long, frustrating and fruitless. It can become all-consuming very quickly or, because you lack time, it can be something that really holds you back as you simply limp along without having a fully staffed team.…
TUPE Transfers
Expert support to manage TUPE Transfers As you’re on this page, we’re going to assume that you know a bit about the legislation surrounding TUPE transfers and you’re looking for help because you think (or know) that it applies to a business transaction with which you’re involved. Whether you’re the outgoing or the incoming employer,…
HR Services: Contracts & Policies
Employee Handbook
Get support with creating or updating your employee handbook An employee handbook ensures that there’s a single point of reference for employees and managers, that sets out what is expected. It also helps you ensure that you’re meeting your legal obligations to provide written confirmation of key elements of employment. Your employee handbook should reflect…
Employment Contract
Protect your business with a legally compliant employment contract Having an employment contract is a great way to protect your business as well as meeting your legal obligations to provide written confirmation of key elements of employment as soon as someone joins your business. Your employment contract should cover all of the basics such as…
GDPR for HR
Support with GDPR regulations With us, you can improve regulatory compliance and implement best practice HR data management. Employers have responsibilities under the regulations relating to how they collect and process personal data. Compliance is not only a legal requirement but also helps to develop trust with employees. The legislation has been around for a…
HR Policies
Ensure you have effective HR policies for your business and employees Most businesses start off with 4 key HR policies: Disciplinary, Grievance, DEI and Health & Safety and now you should add Preventing Sexual Harassment to that list. As your business grows, new documents may need to be introduced or your current ones updated. For…
Prevention of Sexual Harassment
As an employer, you have new responsibilities to prevent Sexual Harassment in the workplace. The Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 came into effect in October 2024. The legislation places new requirements on employers to take steps in the prevention of sexual harassment in the workplace. The legislation is very clear on…
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