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Hygiene Issues: How to Discuss Difficult Issues With Employees

It’s one of the rare issues that can have HR desperately trying to avoid a conversation. Telling an employee that there is a perceived issue with their hygiene is an incredibly sensitive and difficult conversation to have. It runs the…

June 2024

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Removing the Gender from Gender Pay Gap Reporting

HMRC have updated their Gender Pay Gap reporting guidelines. The guidance starts as follows: It is important for you to be sensitive to how an employee identifies their gender. The gender pay gap regulations do not define the terms ‘men’…

February 2024

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Hygiene Issues: How to Discuss Difficult Issues With Employees

It’s one of the rare issues that can have HR desperately trying to avoid a conversation. Telling an employee that…

June 2024

4 Minute Read

Managing Political Conflict Between Employees

Rather than write about the swathe of labour changes that are impending (frankly it’s going to take some time, given…

June 2024

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‘Mouse Jigglers’ Fired

Mouse Jigger (plural mouse jigglers) – Noun A program that simulates periodic mouse movements to prevent the machine going into…

June 2024

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Paternity Leave: Bereaved Parents – New Law

One of the final Acts of Parliament to make it through before closing for election was the Paternity Leave (Bereavement)…

June 2024

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Pulling a Swiftie

I asked someone who had pulled a sickie to go and watch Taylor Swift – if they got caught and…

June 2024

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What to Do When an Employee Won’t Return Company Property?

‘I’m keeping it until you pay my wages’- now what? It’s a query that we get on a regular basis,…

April 2024

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Jones V London Underground Case – Refusal to Grant Flexible Working Is Not Sex Discrimination

In a decision from March, the Employment Tribunal has published its judgement following a sex discrimination claim brought against London…

April 2024

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National Minimum Wage Change: What Employers Need to Be Aware Of

It is that time of year, April – end of the financial year for many and also when the National…

April 2024

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HR:ER Round-Up: OnlyFans in the Workplace, Tackling ‘Sickies’, and More

We’re back with another HR:ER podcast round-up! We’ve got even more bizarre and real-life HR disasters for HR professionals and…

April 2024

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Legal To Hire ‘Fewer White Men’?

Headlines on December 23 boldly declared it was not discrimination to ‘want to hire fewer white men’ following the tribunal…

March 2024

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How to Recession Proof Your Business

It’s the word we keep hearing that sends a shudder down the spine. Recession. It brings thoughts of redundancies, price…

March 2024

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How I Met Your Mother – Before Tinder

There has been a generational dating shift. Back in the 90’s and early 2000’s the internet was seen as a…

March 2024

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