2024 Employment Law Update: Essential Highlights for UK Business Owners
As 2024 unfolds, UK business owners face a significant wave of new employment laws.
This blog aims to demystify the upcoming legal changes, covering key areas such as leave entitlements, working patterns, redundancy protections, adjustments in the national minimum wage, holiday pay calculations, and pension enrolments.
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Revitalising Your Business In the New Year: Strategies for Sustainable Change and Growth
As the new year starts, it's not just personal resolutions that take centre stage. Business owners often see this time as an opportunity for transformation - be it in the business model, productivity, expansion, or exploring new markets. However, the stark reality is that most resolutions dwindle by mid-February.
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What Small Businesses Need to Know to Prepare for Upcoming Employment Law Changes in the UK
From holiday pay to increases to statutory payments, the employment law landscape in the UK is constantly evolving. With 2023 just around the corner, now is a good time to take a look at some of these updates and what they mean for businesses and employees alike.
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All the Answers You Need to Your Christmas HR Questions!
But it’s also the season for long, cold working days, annual leave backlogs, multiple bank holidays and raucous staff parties. In short, without due consideration, Christmas can be a bit of an HR nightmare.
That said, to be mindful of Christmas doesn’t mean you’re a party pooper. Common misconceptions about the workplace at Xmas abound, so we’re here to answer your main Christmas HR questions of 2022.
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10 Mistakes You Want To Avoid When Recruiting Christmas Staff
Even though it seems like it was summer just yesterday, the Christmas season has waltzed right up to our desks. For many people, it’s the happiest time of the year, but it can be a slightly different story for those in business.
Holidays bring new challenges, hurdles, and opportunities to create a remarkable success story. And although this season will likely feel more relaxed than the previous two, the pandemic is not officially over, and companies and consumers face a new enemy - a recession.
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Talent, talent, talent, wherefore art thou talent?
Just as Shakespeare’s Romeo bemoaned the loss of his true love, employers up and down the country are lamenting the skills shortage in the UK.
Everywhere you turn, someone is talking about how they "just can't find any skilled or good staff". Job advertisements unfilled for months, businesses struggling to keep up with customer demand, the list goes on…
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Do I really need to worry about menopause in my business?
Menopause in the workplace is a hot topic right now. This is partly due to a documentary by Davina McCall that aired on Channel 4 in early May, as well as plenty of recent media coverage on the issue. But have you considered how menopause may affect the women in your business? As a manager or business owner, yes, you should be concerned.
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What are the 5 key people management skills?
“You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.” Dwight Eisenhower
If you think great people management skills is all about cracking the whip and getting people to do what you want, then you’re in for a rude awakening. People management is a complex and delicate art that, when done well, can result in a high-performing team that’s cohesive, motivated, and focused.
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What is quiet quitting, and how can SMEs address this trend?
Quiet quitting is trending, and as a leader in a small to medium enterprise (SME), you should be concerned. Why? Because this trend could truly be alive within your teams.
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Advice on exit interviews from HR specialists
Have you ever had an employee resign and been left wondering what the real reason is that they’re leaving? Were they unhappy? Was there anything you could have done to keep them on board? This, and much more, is the value that an exit interview provides.
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