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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With Sky Sports pundit and ex-footballer, Jamie Carragher, suffering scrutiny in the news, we take a look at how businesses can avoid PR incidents outside of work.
Employing & managing staff
Employing & managing staff
In this article, Brendan Street, clinical lead, Nuffield Health, discusses four benefits employees with mental health experience can bring to your company.
Employing & managing staff
UC EXPO study finds 55 per cent of Brits see education system as one of the major blockades in enabling collaboration in the workplace.
Employing & managing staff
Here, Mike Preston discusses the investment his business ProtectMyPeople has made to retain and attract new staff, and what he believes SMEs can do to attract more young employees.
Employing & managing staff
With GDPR coming into effect in less that 100 days, we spoke to Kashflow about how to make your HR department GDPR compliant.
Employing & managing staff
Can I put non-resident employees on my UK company payroll for limited periods of time? If yes, how are they treated under PAYE?
Employing & managing staff
With the 'Beast from the East' ravaging UK shores, many workers are failing to get into work. Is snow a good enough excuse to not show up?
Employing & managing staff
UK students who study abroad are 9 per cent more likely to gain a 1st or 2:1 degree, as employers urge students to secure international skills.
Employing & managing staff
With the 'Beast from the East' ravaging UK shores, many workers are failing to get into work. Is snow a good enough excuse to not show up?
Employing & managing staff
UK students who study abroad are 9 per cent more likely to gain a 1st or 2:1 degree, as employers urge students to secure international skills.
Employing & managing staff
Kate Palmer, head of advisory at Peninsula, discusses if social class discrimination a serious problem in the workplace and how employers can avoid social class discrimination in their workplace.
Employing & managing staff
Facing increasing workloads and stress, employees have become frustrated by the lingering operational inefficiencies at work, so much so that it has pushed a third of British workers to look for a new job.
Employing & managing staff
Reward Gateway, has partnered with financial expert and founder of MoneyMagpie, Jasmine Birtles, to uncover insights into the financial worries of the UK workforce, finding most suffer from stress at work.
Employing & managing staff
Reports show that by 2020 millennials will make up a third of the global workforce. Instant Offices take a look into what members of this digital generation really look for in a career.
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Hospitality businesses have faced a number of challenges in the last couple of years. Find out what funding and support is available.
Employing & managing staff
In Aviva’s latest SME research*, 57 per cent of employers surveyed agreed that nowadays employees expect benefits to protect against loss of income or earnings. What do you offer your people?
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Business broadband offers a host of advantages over standard domestic connections, here’s why you should be considering an upgrade