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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Companies spend a lot of time trying to operate in a particular culture and only recruit employees who fit into it; here's why that mindset is wrong.
Employing & managing staff
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Younger and older employees are clashing at work, according to research.
Employing & managing staff
Here's what to consider when you take on new hires for a business team.
Employing & managing staff
Annual leave building up towards the end of the year can be a problem for employers. Here's how to handle it.
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Here, Alan Price discusses how to deal with absenteeism due to inclement weather.
Employing & managing staff
Here, Melanie Astbury provides some pointers to producing happy staff.
Employing & managing staff
Q: I have an employee who is currently in his probationary period, but is not showing signs of meeting the criteria of the role. Am I within my rights to terminate his contract if this continues?
Employing & managing staff
I have an employee who is struggling with childcare, but cannot afford to reduce her hours. Am I legally obliged to help with childcare costs or is there something else I can do to ease the situation?
Employing & managing staff
Q: I have an employee who is currently in his probationary period, but is not showing signs of meeting the criteria of the role. Am I within my rights to terminate his contract if this continues?
Employing & managing staff
I have an employee who is struggling with childcare, but cannot afford to reduce her hours. Am I legally obliged to help with childcare costs or is there something else I can do to ease the situation?
Employing & managing staff
I have an employee who is currently on sick leave from work, however I have noticed that they have been posting images of themselves going out on social media. How can I approach this situation?
Employing & managing staff
Alan Price explains why an environment of learning is a necessity to help build and grow an organisation.
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I am tight on employee numbers at the moment while I recruit new team members and I need more of my staff to do late night shifts for the short term. Can I expect them to do this, and if so when can they start?
Employing & managing staff
I am in the process of interviewing candidates for a job, but after the first couple I feel that I have found the perfect person for the position. However, I have other interviews set up. Do I have to follow through with these?
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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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