Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
The latest guides on employing and managing full or part time staff effectively as a small business owner or sole trader, brought to you in partnership with Sage. Contains advice on employment law, health and safety at work, recruitment, training, redundancy and disciplinary information, employee rights, workplace regulations, and much more.
This section provides expert and in-depth advice articles on all aspects of staff management and human resources legislation. Our aim is to help UK small businesses to hire great employees, manage them effectively and look after them properly.
Other key topics covered in this employing staff section include team management, employee motivation, legal rights and responsibilities, managing absence, maternity pay and leave, taking on new staff, induction programmes, communication, workplace policies, flexible working, job descriptions, employment contracts and related information.
We also provide information on HR tools, templates and resources specially targeted at SMEs as well as suitable training courses and workshops that can help you get the best out of your staff to make a more efficient, more profitable, happy and productive company.
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Chancellor Sajid Javid’s pledge to increase minimum wage to £10.50 an hour seen as unrealistic for small businesses already suffering because of rising costs
Employing & managing staff
Employing & managing staff
Step-by-step guide to what happens if you are unfortunate enough to be taken to an employment tribunal
Employing & managing staff
Not keeping up to date with health and safety can not only be harmful to your staff but can also be hugely damaging to your business. Outsourcing health and safety takes away the biggest headache for many small businesses
Employing & managing staff
Rebecca Siciliano of Tiger Recruitment explains what skills and experience you should be on the lookout for when hiring a personal assistant.
Employing & managing staff
Glassdoor, the website where staff anonymously review employers, has become the go-to place where prospective employees gauge companies. Jonathan Richards shares 7 fixes to stop your business getting bad reviews
Employing & managing staff
Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola, managers of Liverpool and Manchester City football clubs, have plenty to teach us about how to motivate staff.
Employing & managing staff
Managing remote freelance workers is an increasing challenge for small business owners. Andrew Wray shares 7 tips to get the best out of freelance contractors
Employing & managing staff
Share options are a great way to recruit employees in a start-up. Here are things you should know, says George de Stacpoole
Employing & managing staff
Managing remote freelance workers is an increasing challenge for small business owners. Andrew Wray shares 7 tips to get the best out of freelance contractors
Employing & managing staff
Share options are a great way to recruit employees in a start-up. Here are things you should know, says George de Stacpoole
Employing & managing staff
Many small businesses balk at firing staff with ‘protected characteristics’ such as religion, sexual orientation or disability. Sue Morrison offers a step-by-step guide to sensitive staff dismissal
Employing & managing staff
Going for long-terms solutions, valuing staff and being consistent are just three ways you can create a healthy workplace, say Karen Meager and John McLachlan
Employing & managing staff
As the increase in auto enrolment contributions to workplace pension schemes kicks in employers face a challenge in persuading employees to stay within the schemes. The benefits outweigh the time spent encouraging them.
Employing & managing staff
An increasing number of companies have job roles that can be done remotely. Here's how to manage your mobile team – wherever they are.
Business Loans
Everything you need to know on what small business loans are and what types of loan are available for your business.
Business Technology
To run an optimal business, you must have optimal tech. We explain why you must upgrade your business technology on a regular basis
Investing in a franchise
Starting a new business is an exciting venture. But – especially in well-established industry sectors – a key question is whether it would be better to buy a franchise or go solo.