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Q. Can you please give us some tips on how to introduce new 1:1 meetings?

We would like our managers to be having regular “check ins” with their team which include discussions about the employee’s wellbeing. Have you got any tips on how to introduce this kind of regular meeting? If a meeting is entirely about “checking in,” it’s probably a waste of time, and your employees will end up feeling this way too! So if you are thinking about introducing a meeting like this, make sure that you make them really helpful and valuable to you and your employee. Quality one-on-one meetings strengthen relationships,…

8th April 2024

Q. What is an Employee Assistance Program and why is it a good idea?

We’ve been told it would be a good idea to introduce an Employee Assistance Program, but we don’t even really know what it is – help?! An Employee Assistance Programme or EAP as they are often referred to, are there to help employees by providing support for any mental or financial problems employees might have. EAPs help employers to provide: Short-term counselling Referral services Health & wellbeing programmes such as guided meditation Incentives or financial rewards & discounts. EAPs help employees deal with personal problems that might negatively impact their…

8th April 2024

Q. How can we manage the recruitment process efficiently?

We’re struggling to manage the application process efficiently when we have a role to recruit for. It takes us ages to acknowledge applications, download CV’s and we just don’t have the time to do this! There must be a way to streamline the admin/or a more efficient way of doing this? We agree! Recruiting someone new can quickly become an overwhelming, administrative nightmare; especially when you don’t have a centralised place to manage your applicants That’s where Breathe’s Applicant Tracking System can help, allowing you to manage every step of…

8th April 2024

Culture and change

Low cost ways to develop a culture of employee wellbeing

Did you know that 700 construction workers take their own lives every year in the UK? That’s a minimum of two lives lost, every single day, which is a really scary and awful statistic. Unfortunately, I’ve had to deal with two suicides in my 24 year HR career, both of whom were male, which is two suicides too many, and let me tell you, it’s the worst thing I have ever had to deal with – ever. It’s a grim reality to remind us of the profound impact of mental…

4th April 2024

Culture and change

The power of Employee Engagement Surveys

This is one of the most powerful tools you can use as a business leader. As a business leader, one of your jobs is to make big difficult decisions. When making a decision as a business leader, you take care to look at all of the information you have available to you so that you can make the best, most informed, decisions. And when it comes to making decisions about your people, it’s important to use the same due care and diligence, because your people are your greatest business…

18th March 2024

3 actions to create a more inclusive workplace for women

Culture and change

Actions you should take to mark International Women’s Day

It’s 2024 and women are still facing inequality in the workplace due to their gender – which lets be honest is rubbish! This month we celebrate International Women’s Day and we want to use this occasion to give you three positive ways to take action to create a fairer, more inclusive workplace for the women in your team. Gender bias in hiring and promotion Women can encounter bias during the hiring and promotion processes, which results in fewer opportunities for career progression. Your action: Implement blind recruitment practices, where identifying…

18th March 2024

Employment contracts

Can you afford a £45,000 fine from the Home Office?

For not having the right to work documentation in place for every employee that works for you. As an employer, you have a legal obligation to check the right to work documentation for every employee that works for you. Currently, if you fail to have the right documentation on file for every employee that works for you, as a first offence, you could be fined £15,000 per employee who doesn’t have the right documentation on file. This fine has been in place since 2014, and we routinely check this documentation…

30th November 2023

Employment law

Nationwide’s return to office mandate and how it backfired with a £350K tribunal bill

Nationwide Building Society has been ordered to pay more than £350,000 in compensation to a former employee who was made redundant after refusing to abide by its return-to-office (RTO) mandate. Jayne Follows, who the tribunal heard was a “top performer” at work and carer to an elderly and disabled mother, successfully brought a claim of indirect disability discrimination and unfair dismissal against the bank. The result ends a five-year dispute between the two parties, which started in 2017 after Follows was told she was at risk of redundancy for refusing…

30th November 2023

Q. Can you afford a £45,000 fine from the Home Office?

As an employer, you have a legal obligation to check the right to work documentation for every employee that works for you. Currently, if you fail to have the right documentation on file for every employee that works for you, as a first offence, you could be fined £15,000 per employee who doesn’t have the right documentation on file. This fine has been in place since 2014, and we routinely check this documentation is on file for the employees of our retained clients. This fine will be increased from £15,000…

28th November 2023

Q. When can an employer reject a request for flexible working?

An employer can refuse a statutory request for flexible working if the refusal is based on one or more specific grounds. The list of grounds for refusal; as set out in the Employment Rights Act 1996. The specified grounds for refusal are: the burden of additional costs; a detrimental effect on ability to meet customer demand; an inability to reorganise work among existing staff or recruit additional staff; a detrimental impact on quality or performance; insufficiency of work during the periods the employee proposes to work; planned structural changes; or…

6th November 2023

Category: Support

Q. Can you please give us some tips on how to introduce new 1:1 meetings?

Q. What is an Employee Assistance Program and why is it a good idea?

Q. How can we manage the recruitment process efficiently?

Low cost ways to develop a culture of employee wellbeing

The power of Employee Engagement Surveys

Actions you should take to mark International Women’s Day

Can you afford a £45,000 fine from the Home Office?

Nationwide’s return to office mandate and how it backfired with a £350K tribunal bill

Q. Can you afford a £45,000 fine from the Home Office?

Q. When can an employer reject a request for flexible working?

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Your people | our passion | your success

© 2022 Meraki HR Solutions Ltd, Terms & Conditions | Privacy & Cookies | Sitemap

Meraki HR South:
Registered Address:
Unit 5 - The Workshed,
London Street,
Swindon
SN1 5DG

Meraki HR North:
Office Location:
Suite 4, Kendal Business Hub,
South Lakeland House,
Angel Yard, 21-23 Highgate,
Kendal, LA9 4DY

Meraki HR South:
Unit 5 - The Workshed,
London Street,
Swindon
SN1 5DG

Meraki HR North:
Suite 4, Kendal Business Hub,
South Lakeland House,
Angel Yard, 21-23 Highgate,
Kendal, LA9 4DY