When Does a Business Need a Fractional HR Director?
We help SME leaders understand when a Fractional HR Director can add real value. This guide explains the role, the benefits, and how senior HR leadership can strengthen culture, align people with business goals, and drive growth. Clear, practical guidance for businesses ready to take the next step in their HR maturity.
Business Guide to Outsourcing HR
We help SME leaders understand when and how to outsource HR effectively. This guide explains what HR outsourcing is, the benefits and risks to consider, and how to choose the right provider. You’ll learn how to gain expert support, stay compliant, and free up time to focus on growing your business.
Business Guide to Making Redundancies
We help SME leaders manage redundancies fairly, legally, and with confidence. This guide explains each step, from considering alternatives to consulting with employees, so you handle the process transparently, reduce risk, and protect both your business and your people during a difficult time.
How to Manage Disciplinaries
We help SME leaders manage disciplinary issues fairly, consistently, and with confidence. This guide explains each stage of the process, from investigation to outcome, so you follow the right steps, protect your business, and treat employees with clarity and respect while keeping every decision compliant and professional.
How to Manage Grievances
We help SME leaders handle employee grievances fairly, calmly, and within the law. This guide walks you through each step, from acknowledging a complaint to resolving it, so you manage issues consistently and transparently while protecting your business, supporting your people, and maintaining trust across your team.
Guide to Managing Collective Redundancies
We help SME leaders plan and manage collective redundancies lawfully and with care. This guide explains when collective consultation applies, how to engage employee representatives, and the steps to follow for fair communication and compliance. Clear, practical guidance that protects your business and supports your people through major change.
Business Guide to Employment Law Updates 2024
Insights into UK Employment Law Changes for 2024 2024 saw a lot of changes to employment law in the UK. Some of these were driven by Brexit and the fact that, after 31st December 2023, EU legislation ended unless the UK took steps to move it onto the UK statute book. Changes relating to this transition…
HR Insights and Guides
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Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Businesses have a statutory duty to take action to prevent sexual harassment. Employers are legally required to take reasonable steps to reduce the chance of sexual harassment happening in the workplace. Our post provides insights into organisations moving from dealing with complaints to taking action in prevention.
Company Liability at Corporate Events
Company liability at corporate events has come up for our clients on a number of occasions, and there has been an interesting case ruling that we think people should be aware of. In this post, we’ll review the case ruling and what employers can do to minimise risks.
Staying in Touch During Maternity Leave: Striking the Right Balance
In this blog post, we’ll look at the legalities around communication with the employee during maternity leave and give you some tips on how to get it right.
What Happens at a Disciplinary Hearing?
You find yourself in a situation where an employee has done something wrong and you need to go through a formal process with them. Part of that process will be to conduct a disciplinary hearing. But, what happens at a disciplinary hearing? In this post, we’re assuming that you’ve already conducted any necessary investigations and invited…
What Does TUPE Mean? An overview of TUPE
The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE) has been in place in the UK since 1981. It remains one of the most complicated and frustrating piece of employment legislation. As with much UK employment law, the original directive came from Europe but it was retained post Brexit! Given the complexities, we thought it…
6 Possible Disciplinary Hearing Outcomes
Navigating the outcomes of disciplinary hearings can be challenging and it is important for managers to decide on the outcomes which are fair and reasonable. In this blog, we walk you through the various possible outcomes of disciplinary hearings.
HR Guidance on Christmas Parties
Whilst Christmas can be the perfect time for social bonding amongst your team, there are also lots of opportunities for poor conduct and unintentional discrimination, so we thought a quick guide on company-arranged Christmas events might come in useful to help you try to avoid employee disciplinary matters.
Who to Involve in Redundancies When There’s No HR
Managing a redundancy process requires a great deal of knowledge regarding employment law and insight into potential risks and pitfalls. If an organisation has HR support, they will have access to the knowledge they need. But what happens when an organisation does not have access to HR support? Who should be involved in redundancy situations…
Alternatives to Redundancy: What are the Options?
Making employees redundant is time consuming, can be costly, can disrupt the work place, can damage a company’s reputation in the market and is legally quite complicated. This post looks at the alternatives to redundancy that could be considered.
How Should a Business Decide Who is at Risk of Redundancy?
A key part of redundancy planning is to identify which employees are impacted by the changes a business is proposing. This is called “pooling” and, in this post we look at how you should go about deciding on redundancy pools.
How to Protect Against Employees Setting up a Competitor using Stolen Business Contacts
This post runs through some recent case law which provides insights into employees attempting to steal business contacts to set up a rival business. It then provides guidance on how to protect your business from the same situation.
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