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How Exit Interviews Can Help Employee Retention
Exit interviews can be an invaluable source of insight for HR, which can be used to make organisational improvements and ultimately improve employee retention. Employers clearly recognise the value of
How to Write a Redundancy Letter
Employers have to act fairly and lawfully when making employees redundant. Communication with affected employees will be critical as you move through the redundancy process, to update employees, meet your
Pre-Employment Overseas Criminal Record Checks
Carrying out pre-employment checks for migrant workers can not only be crucial to ensuring that you are hiring someone trustworthy and reliable, but in ensuring that your chosen candidate is
Offering Voluntary Redundancy
Employers should consider all workforce options before pursuing compulsory redundancies. This includes offering voluntary redundancy. As a way to reduce headcount, ‘self selection’ for redundancy can bring a number of
Short Time Working (Employer Guidance)
Short time working is when you reduce the hours of some or all of your employees, or pay them less than half a week’s pay. This could be during periods
Retention of HR Records (Employers’ Guide)
All employers, regardless of their size, will need to collect and retain certain data relating to each member of staff that they employ. HR records can cover a wide range
Directors’ Remuneration (Best Practice Guide)
Directors’ remuneration refers to how directors of a company are compensated by a company for their services usually fees, salary, use of company property or other benefits. The packages are
Directors’ Service Agreement: Protect Your Business
Directors have specific statutory duties and responsibilities in relation to the organisation, which should be addressed within a directors’ service agreement. More than a compliance requirement, the agreement can also
How to Avoid Redundancy
Employers have to take steps to avoid redundancy by considering alternative measures. It is also generally in the organisation’s interests to exhaust all alternatives to redundancy, given the legal risks
Personal Relationships at Work (HR Guide)
How should HR and employers approach managing or setting boundaries for personal relationships at work? It is important to remember that personal relationships at work may not be limited to
Gender Pay Gap Reporting Guide 2021
‘Gender pay gap’ refers to the difference between the average earnings of men and women across an organisation. The Gender Pay Gap Reporting Regulations were introduced in 2017 to make
Enabling International Remote Working
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we work. Across the globe, remote working was imposed under local lockdown rules. But as we emerge from the initial pandemic response, will
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