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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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Top five tips to ace employee engagement during Wimbledon

In this piece Neil Pickering, customer and industry insight manager at Kronos, gives five tips to keep employees engaged during Wimbledon.

Employing & managing staff

Employing & managing staff

What does the Taylor Review mean for small businesses?

In this piece Alan Price, Peninsula’s employment law and HR director, discusses what the Taylor Review could mean for company owners.

Employing & managing staff

How to support the wellbeing of younger employees

With a recent focus on zero-hour contracts in the media, we look at how you can maintain the wellbeing of your younger staff.

Employing & managing staff

Apprenticeship levy galvanising HR strategies of major employers

With the introduction of the apprenticeship levy, HR departments can be inspired to find new ways to hire future talent.

Employing & managing staff

How to prevent sexual harassment in a small business

Kate Palmer, head of advisory at Peninsula, discusses how to create a culture where employees feel that they can make complaints about sexual harassment.

Employing & managing staff

Brands with outdated talent acquisition will fail in the customer age

CAB Studios have commissioned the white paper ‘Power to the Customer’, revealing how brands must evolve in the customer age and what the industry needs to do to keep pace.

Employing & managing staff

Are extra smoking breaks unfair to your employees?

With an average of four smoking breaks per a working day, more than 60 per cent of office workers believe they are ‘unfair’.

Employing & managing staff

Employee health costs businesses one month a year in lost productivity

New research reveals the impact of employee ill health on business, with many businesses losing up to one month a year in lost productivity.

Employing & managing staff

Are extra smoking breaks unfair to your employees?

With an average of four smoking breaks per a working day, more than 60 per cent of office workers believe they are ‘unfair’.

Employing & managing staff

Employee health costs businesses one month a year in lost productivity

New research reveals the impact of employee ill health on business, with many businesses losing up to one month a year in lost productivity.

Employing & managing staff

Employee perks: The PR power of benefits for a small business

Here, Richard Stewart, founder of Untangl.co.uk, explores how small businesses are beginning to innovate when it comes to employee perks.

Employing & managing staff

Hiding in plain sight: How to identify addicts within the society

Identifying addicts in the office can be difficult, but businesses need to do more to spot and support addicts in the office.

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Brexit talks begin, with citizens’ rights top of the agenda for HR

Here, Nick Goldberg CEO UK & Ireland of Lee Hecht Harrison | Penna looks at what Brexit really means for HR professionals.

Employing & managing staff

It’s time to talk immigration

Here, Rachel Harvey, associate and business immigration specialist at law firm Shakespeare Martineau, talks to us about immigration in business.

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