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Kate Russell offers advice to ensure happy entrepreneurs and happy teams.
Employing & managing staff
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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Kate Russell offers advice to ensure happy entrepreneurs and happy teams.
Employing & managing staff
Employing & managing staff
Here, we look at the key factors you need to consider before you start recruiting as a start-up company.
Employing & managing staff
Kate Russell discusses changes to the laws that protect employees' rights when their company transfers to new ownership.
Employing & managing staff
Here, we look at how to manage your financial planning in regard to your pension scheme and the auto-enrolment process.
Employing & managing staff
Kate Russell discusses how best to reduce the risk of hazards to the mental health of your employees.
Employing & managing staff
Stephen Thomas, safety technical consultant at Croner, discusses the ramifications of a proposal to exempt certain self-employed people from health and safety red tape.
Employing & managing staff
Richard Healy discusses how to navigate the road to acquiring the right staff for your new business.
Employing & managing staff
Neil Atkinson provides an overview of the employment tribunal process for small business owners. The aim of this article is to dispel a few myths surrounding the process and to provide an overview guide.
Employing & managing staff
Richard Healy discusses how to navigate the road to acquiring the right staff for your new business.
Employing & managing staff
Neil Atkinson provides an overview of the employment tribunal process for small business owners. The aim of this article is to dispel a few myths surrounding the process and to provide an overview guide.
Employing & managing staff
Kate Russell discusses the challenge of attaining the right level of familiarity with employees.
Employing & managing staff
Ben Wilson of e-cigarette company Freshcig gives his opinion on the new laws to enable more consideration of flexible working patterns.
Employing & managing staff
I have to send an employee to work in France on a full-time basis over a 12 month contract. He will also be living there throughout this time but he is employed by us in London. Is he managed by UK employment law or French legislation?
Employing & managing staff
Tradeshift CEO Christian Lanng explains why age is just a number when it comes to employing staff.
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