HR Advice and News

You can picture the scene, business is good. The sales are increasing and the profits are good so you need a new team member. Then you need another and another and suddenly with your team of ten things are going swimmingly…..or so you thought. A while back Louise put in a grievance and you had…

20th of May is International Human Resources Day 2022. Hooray! No, I haven’t made this up!! It is a real thing! Now, we love any excuse to celebrate our colleagues and the hard work that they do, so it’s safe to say that we’ll be recognising the day… maybe with cake (probably with prosecco and…

Do you have any new or soon-to-be mothers in your business? If you do, you might be interested to know that the 2nd to the 8th May is Maternal Mental Health Week. It’s a week dedicated to talking about and supporting mental health problems that occur during and after pregnancy. This year, the theme of…

We know. We understand. Recruitment is stressful! However, we also know, if you have the right plans in place, recruitment shouldn’t be stressful or difficult in the future. In fact, we know when you have the right things in place you can make recruitment easier, faster, and more successful than ever. Oh, and of course…

Your monthly HR newsletter for busy business owners 9th-15th May is Mental Health Awareness Week – get involved! As any excellent employer knows, good mental health and wellbeing is paramount in the workplace. And taking care of your peoples’ mental health and wellbeing can be the difference between having a motivated, engaged workforce and having…

Over the past few years there has been more and more mental health challenges on everyone and although things are hopefully getting easier I believe we still have a long way to go. Mental Health Awareness Week is an annual event when there is an opportunity for the whole of the UK to focus on…

When your staff call in sick, it can cause a real headache – for colleagues, teams, the business and even clients and service users and I’m sure we can all agree, over the last few years COVID hasn’t made this any easier. In fact, a recent report has shown that requests for sick notes from…

Over the past few years with Covid specifically and the after effects – stress, anxiety and even long Covid, many businesses have been seeing the effects of absence on their business. It can be frustrating to deal with and manage but as always trying to think ahead and get things in place before it becomes…

– whether they’re in the office or not Covid has definitely changed the way that people work all over the world. The sudden move thrown on us all to work from home (where possible), for many of us, worked out well, finding out that after an initial settling in period, there were some benefits to…

Does your HR Admin cause you stress?Do you still use holiday charts?A cupboard full of personnel files?Paper sickness absence forms? If you’re still doing things ‘the old way’, i.e. as stated above then you really need to read on. Our HR System can record, organise and make management of all the above easy! Each employee…

Did you know today (Thursday 7th April) is World Health Day? Each year there is a different theme and this years theme is Universal Health Coverage. In the UK, we know we’re lucky enough not to have to worry too much about the cost of healthcare but in other countries around the world, falling ill…

Over the past few weeks many of my clients have said they’re struggling to recruit. With unemployment at its lowest, the ongoing impact of brexit and the pandemic and the current uncertainties in the world attracting talent is even more challenging. With all these challenges affecting businesses, it is forcing employers to think more about…