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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HR starts the moment you hire your first employee. There are plenty of resources and organisations out to help run your HR systems smoothly. But you should see HR as an opportunity, not a burden
Employing & managing staff
Employing & managing staff
Pietro Carmignani, UK country manager at Gympass, provides some simple tips to empower staff and keep them engaged.
Employing & managing staff
Some business owners want homeworking staff to keep laptop cameras and microphones switched on, so they can scrutinise whet they’re doing. But is this even legal, let alone intrusive?
Employing & managing staff
A Supreme Court ruling means that police staff in Northern Ireland can bring miscalculated holiday pay claims dating back 35 years .
Employing & managing staff
Pensions auto enrolment rules mean all employers must provide a pension for their staff and automatically enrol them into it. James Brown of Chase de Vere offers a guide to all the considerations employers must make to comply with pensions legislation
Employing & managing staff
Employers are legally bound to provide a written statement of terms and conditions from day one of a new worker starting. Sue Temelty of The HR Dept expalins what's compulsory and what can be added later, once your new member of staff has settled in
Employing & managing staff
We are about to trade around the clock, 24 hours in some cases. Do we need to pay extra for employees who work unsocial hours?
Employing & managing staff
Here, Kate Russell outlines the main ways HR consultancies can let you, as a small business owner, down
Employing & managing staff
We are about to trade around the clock, 24 hours in some cases. Do we need to pay extra for employees who work unsocial hours?
Employing & managing staff
Here, Kate Russell outlines the main ways HR consultancies can let you, as a small business owner, down
Employing & managing staff
Before taking on any employees, it’s important to grasp the basics of employment law. In this piece, we look at what you need to know
Employing & managing staff
Making staffing mistakes as a small business on a tight budget can be fatal. Here are the common ones and how not to fall foul of them
Employing & managing staff
The Dragons’ Den investor gives his top five tips for building a winning team, knowing when to take a backseat, and why his main job is creating a company culture.
Employing & managing staff
Outsourcing HR makes sense for businesses that are too small to have their own inhouse manager. However you need to be clear about what you need from the outset to avoid a one-size-fits-all approach
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