Category: Talent management

Employment law

Sending our love to you with our special Valentine’s Introductory Retainer Offer

If you are an ambitious SME, looking to grow your business in 2023, then doing so without HR expertise will be challenging! If you’ve ever had to tackle a people issue on your own, you’ll also know just how tough and stressful it can be. Between trying to manage your business, look after your clients or suppliers, your financial and legal obligations, as well as meeting your operational requirements, it can all be a bit too much! Feeling overwhelmed with all that you have to do and firefighting can become…

2nd February 2023

Culture and change

High Performing Teams

What does 2023 have in store for your business? If we believe all the doom and gloom on the news then it could be a tough year! All I know is that personally, it’s a time for me and our team to be setting our specific goals for 2023 – once you have written them down and committed to them, the more likely you are to achieve them! Whatever your goals are, you won’t achieve them without having a great team to help you achieve them, and that’s where we…

31st January 2023

Policies and procedures

How to recruit superstars

The first workshop we are running this year is our popular “How to Recruit Superstars”, and details of how you can come along are at the end of this blog. We wanted to share some really important things to consider when it comes to recruitment. Yes, some may seem obvious, but they also get forgotten, or maybe not enough time is spent preparing for the interview process, which is why recruitment mistakes happen! So, here are our top 5 considerations to make when you are looking to recruit superstars into…

5th January 2023

Q. How can I make sure that I retain my best people this year?

Ask us to conduct our FREE Employee Retention Audit for you and we can look at the results together and agree what actions we need to implement for you to improve your employee retention. But here’s some initial ideas. Training and development are crucial to help your talented employees stay with you. If they can see a career path ahead of them and feel supported to develop their skills, they are more likely to feel part of your business. And therefore, less likely to be looking elsewhere for that next…

1st December 2022

Culture and change

How to onboard your new employees to optimise Employee Retention

You know that sinking feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when one of your newer employees tells you they’re leaving? You thought everything was going well and now you’re asking yourself: What went wrong? Should I have seen this coming? Why is this happening (again)? It’s quite possible the die was cast in those early days, shortly after you uttered the words, “welcome to our company” on their first day and handed them a bunch of forms to fill out/documents to read or video’s to watch! How…

31st October 2022

Culture and change

Q. Can an employer use a trial period to test whether a proposed flexible working arrangement would work?

Yes, an employer and employee may decide that a trial period should be implemented in respect of proposed flexible working arrangements. A trial period allows both the employer and the employee an opportunity to review how the arrangements work in practice, and whether or not they are likely to create any practical difficulties for the employee’s department or for the business as a whole. The employer must notify the employee of its final decision within three months of an employee’s statutory request for flexible working, unless the employer and employee…

31st October 2022

Culture and change

Q. Is an employee who has exhausted their sick pay entitled to notice pay if dismissed on grounds of ill health?

Where an employee has exhausted their sick pay, whether they are entitled to payment during their notice period is a complicated question. It depends on the amount of contractual notice compared to statutory minimum notice. An employee who is going to be dismissed on the grounds of ill health is always entitled to receive notice, and the notice you have to give, will be the greater figure of the contractual notice period and the statutory minimum notice period. Section 88(1)(b) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 provides that the employee…

31st October 2022

Culture and change

How Stay Interviews could help you keep hold of your best employees

I want to talk about the importance of listening to your employees. In HR, we conduct exit interviews when people leave the business to find out the real reasons for people leaving, as this may help us to identify and resolve any key issues in the business. But, in my opinion, the exit interview is often too late! In the current economy, we know how tough it is to find good people, therefore you need to know that your employees are here to stay, so I would like to introduce…

31st October 2022

Policies and procedures

With the cost-of-living crisis – should we be giving people a salary increase?

Many clients have contacted us with this question in the last month, and there really is no right or wrong answer to this question, it really depends on whether your business can afford to or not! If you have the cashflow to do so, you may want to consider a “one off” payment as a lump sum, or an uplift in salary for an agreed period of time. What’s important is that this is clearly communicated as a one off, or gesture of goodwill, so that it is not considered…

10th October 2022

Policies and procedures

Do you dread having appraisals or reviews with your team?

Call them what you want to, many managers dread “appraisal season!” Do you want to look forward to having reviews with your team? Whether you call them reviews/appraisals/PDR’s, many managers dread having to sit with each of their team to have the dreaded “appraisal” meeting, and that’s often because they forget that this meeting should just be about having a good conversation! Many managers are under a great deal of pressure and don’t have the time to prepare for these meetings or may not be confident in giving their team…

10th October 2022

Category: Talent management

Sending our love to you with our special Valentine’s Introductory Retainer Offer

High Performing Teams

How to recruit superstars

Q. How can I make sure that I retain my best people this year?

How to onboard your new employees to optimise Employee Retention

Q. Can an employer use a trial period to test whether a proposed flexible working arrangement would work?

Q. Is an employee who has exhausted their sick pay entitled to notice pay if dismissed on grounds of ill health?

How Stay Interviews could help you keep hold of your best employees

With the cost-of-living crisis – should we be giving people a salary increase?

Do you dread having appraisals or reviews with your team?

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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