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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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Ten points to active performance management in a small business

Entrepreneur Jonathan Richards reveals his tips to maintaining a happy and productive workforce.

Employing & managing staff

Employing & managing staff

Why older recruits can be worthwhile hires for small businesses

Following an urge from the DWP for companies not to overlook senior employees, HR guru Kate Russell talks about the advantages older workers have over their younger counterparts.

Employing & managing staff

Real Time Information is here: what small businesses need to know 

The smallest businesses have longer to prepare for the onset of Real Time Information reporting, but larger companies have to comply from now.

Employing & managing staff

How your business can master employee contracts

Small businesses should not be nervous of the prospect of putting employee contracts together. While they can be complex without an HR or legal department, they certainly don't need to be. Adrian Hoggarth gives some simple advice to help.

Employing & managing staff

Why simple employee engagement can make all the difference in a small business

Entrepreneur Jonathan Richards gives some simple and cheap tips to looking after your staff that little bit better.

Employing & managing staff

Shared parental leave for small businesses – the legal view

Three advisers and a business owner give their opinion on the proposed shared parental leave initiative.

Employing & managing staff

Small business owners lukewarm on RTI implementation

The introduction of real-time information reporting could prove to be a time-consuming nuisance, small business owners fear.

Employing & managing staff

How to get your small business ready for RTI

Ann Stainer of Carbon Accountancy reveals everything the small business owner needs to know about getting ready for Real Time Information.

Employing & managing staff

Small business owners lukewarm on RTI implementation

The introduction of real-time information reporting could prove to be a time-consuming nuisance, small business owners fear.

Employing & managing staff

How to get your small business ready for RTI

Ann Stainer of Carbon Accountancy reveals everything the small business owner needs to know about getting ready for Real Time Information.

Employing & managing staff

Can I ask staff members to go self-employed?

I employ two members of staff and sub-contract out some work. I wish to semi-retire and just use a sub-contractor. Do I have to make employees redundant and can I continue trading or can I ask them to go self-employed?

Employing & managing staff

Brits put in nearly 2 hours a day of overtime at work

Three quarters of employees at Britain's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) work overtime, clocking an additional 1.9 hours a day on average.

Employing & managing staff

The importance of appraisals

Ally Maughan, founder of HR specialist People Puzzles, explains why you should make time to review staff performance and receive employee feedback.

Employing & managing staff

What SMEs should know about auto-enrolment pensions

NOW: Pensions reveals the changes that businesses face in the wake of the government's new pension laws.

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