If you cannot afford to give a pay rise as a reward to your Employees what else can you do instead
If you can’t afford to give a pay rise as a reward to your Employees, what else can you do instead? You may be lacking in financial resources at the moment and a pay rise as a reward may not be possible, it may be that there are alternatives that you can offer to […]
Managing Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing
Managing Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing What are your responsibilities? All Employers have a ‘duty of care’ towards their Employees. This means doing all you reasonably can to support your Employees ‘ health, safety, and wellbeing. This would include: Ensuring your Employees can work safely and healthily Protecting them from discrimination, for example making […]
How to support your Employees during Ramadan
How to support your Employees during Ramadan The Islamic holy month of Ramadan starts on 22 March 2023 ending on 20 April 2023, here are some areas you may want to consider in your workplace for comfort and religious observance. All religious celebrations are an essential part of so many individuals’ lives, there is no […]
Managing annual leave in your workplace
Managing annual leave in your workplace Managing annual leave should be an easy task but can be problematic at work, there are varying reasons for this, such as poor planning, a lack of understanding of entitlement, peaks in trading leading to a requirement for cover, dips in morale, team absence as a result and rising […]
NEW 2023 Statutory Payment Increases
Statutory Payments are increasing, as an Employer, do I legally need to pay the minimum? Each year statutory payments increase, and as an Employer, you are legally obliged to meet these minimum requirements, a failure to do so could lead to a claim in a tribunal, we cover each of these below: National Living […]
What is the difference between a Director and a Shareholder?
What is the difference between a Director and a Shareholder? It may surprise you (or not) that there really is a difference between being a Director and a Shareholder, in our article today we are going to take a look at what just some of those are. We review Director and Shareholder agreements daily, some […]
Managing Annualised Hours Contracts at work
Managing Annualised Hours Contracts at work Annualised hours are a specific kind of contract that calculates pay based on a whole year of work, as opposed to a week or month. These contracts set expectations that an Employee will work a specific number of hours a year, but those hours will not be the same […]
New for Employment Law in 2023
New for Employment Law in 2023 It may be that the government has abandoned the long-anticipated Employment Bill, nevertheless, 2023 certainly looks like it is going to be a busy one with new changes in Employment Law in 2023. In our first Employment Law article of this year, we take a look at what HR […]
As an Employer can you legally prevent your Employees from discussing their salary?
As an Employer can you legally prevent your Employees from discussing their salary? In your company, it will be highly likely that your Employees have varying rates of pay. The discussion of pay amongst your team may well be an issue and one that you have decided to enforce a ‘ban’ in the workplace, in […]
The Disciplinary process how and what you should be doing as an Employer or HR
The Disciplinary process how and what you should be doing We deal with issues daily, advising, guiding, and protecting Employers when things go wrong in their workplaces, in the main issues may not arise but when they do, it really is imperative that as an Employer or HR you don’t just understand the process […]