Traditionally, job descriptions haven’t always made for engaging reading. But in the face of talent shortages, HR professionals have been compelled to make these more enticing to stand out from the competition when attracting candidates. Your job ad is a necessary part of the recruitment process. Your advert is usually the first touch point in the hiring journey, so it needs to resonate with the right candidates. When writing a job description there’s a range of considerations to factor in. It needs to convey all…
Managing poor performance can be both time consuming and frustrating for a line manager. Having even just one underperforming employee in your team could have a huge impact on productivity and morale. Here are some tips to ensure that addressing poor performance issues doesn’t take up all of your valuable time: 1. Don’t avoid the issue The key is to address any performance issues as soon as you become aware of them and not leave them to snowball until they become bigger issues. Taking action at…
“Baby faced”, “inbetweener” – just a couple of the terms used to describe 25-year-old Keir Mather who has just been elected as Labour MP for Selby & Ainsty and becomes the youngest member in the House of Commons. Age discrimination and younger workers While age is often the ‘forgotten’ protected characteristic (with older people suffering both systemic disadvantage and sometimes jibes that would not be tolerated about other groups) many overlook entirely the way in which younger people can be unlawfully discriminated against at work.…
Are you old enough to remember the hysteria of the Millenium/Y2K bug? Computer systems programmed to recognise two-digit year dates may fall over when 99 became 2000. Every organisation frantically reviewing and updating their systems. Roll forward to 2018 and the advent of GDPR and UK Data Protection Act. It was Y2K all over again. Scrambling round like headless chickens trying to understand horrifically complex and far-reaching legislation. Many took matters very seriously. And some still do. Others have taken their foot off the gas. …
With over 200 important dates for the remainder of this year and 2024, this calendar aims to highlight important themes around Diversity and Inclusion to help promote awareness of diversity throughout your organisation. Raising awareness can encourage self-learning and personal development, provide accessible information on dates, holidays and events for all employees and support your organisation’s diversity, cultural and quality training objectives. September 2023 World Alzheimer’s Month World Alzheimer's Month is an annual international event, always held in September and run by Alzheimer’s Disease International,…
43% of hourly workers admit exaggerating their hours. So, with almost half of your workforce taking you for a ride, what are you doing about it? The truth is you’re probably losing a pretty penny when it comes to employee time theft. That’s employees fudging their start time, slimming down their lunch break, and not even mentioning that early finish. If you’re in the pits of paper timesheets, you can add a heap of workload and human error to that to-do list. Let’s be real,…
In a competitive job market positions are a dime a dozen, and getting the right people in your business is stressful, and time consuming. That’s why we created our recruitment module to make the whole thing easy. Step aside 20% fees, there’s a new recruiter in town! Recruiting, it can feel a lot like swiping right. One’s falling short; one’s got a tooth gap in knowledge, and one just down right stinks! On the path to finding a compatible candidate it’s all stand ups, let…
New parents will have a right to additional, dedicated time to spend with their baby while they’re receiving specialist medical care. What’s happened? Introduced as a Private Members Bill by Stuart C McDonald MP, the Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act 2023 will introduce two new statutory rights—neonatal care leave and neonatal care pay. The rights proposed by the Scottish National Party member for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East, were afforded a boost last summer when the government decided to back it as opposed to…
Recent figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that sickness absence has now hit it's highest level on record since 2004. The main course of absence are minor illnesses such as coughs, colds, flu, sickness, nausea and diarrhoea. While employees are entitled to take time off for illness (we all get sick once in a while) it is well known that some employees will take adventure of sick leave and will report sick with such minor illness when they are in fact fit…
There are a lot of positive changes happening now with family friendly rights in employment law, which is great news for parents or expectant parents who meet certain eligibility criteria. But how do you support employee miscarriage when they don't meet the current legislative criteria for support? Please note that throughout the article the term ‘miscarriage’ will include miscarriage, ectopic or molar pregnancy. If a baby is stillborn (which is a loss after 24 weeks of gestation) the law and employee’s rights are very different.…
