Category: Strategy

Q. Who has to be informed and consulted on a TUPE transfer?

When a TUPE transfer occurs, before the transfer, both the old and new employers must by law, inform and consult with a recognised trade union or employee representatives. To ‘inform’ is when you tell your affected employees or their representatives the facts about the transfer. To ‘consult’ is when you talk and listen to affected employees or their representatives on expected ‘measures’ which are effectively changes that could affect employees and genuinely consider their views. There is no fixed length of time for employers to inform and consult employees and…
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Q. Who owns an employee’s Linkedin contacts if they were created as a result of their employment?

Is it the employer or the employee? LinkedIn contacts are key for many employers, as they may use LinkedIn to generate new business contacts. Departing employees could use the LinkedIn contacts that they created during their employment for their own, or a competitors’ benefit. So many employers will want their employment contractual terms and procedures to protect their business and its intellectual property. Many businesses will include standard confidentiality provisions, which will prohibit the use of confidential information belonging to the company. They may also have terms which specifically mention…
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Q. What is Constructive Dismissal?

You’ve probably heard the term ‘constructive dismissal’ before, but are you clear on what it actually means? Constructive dismissal is the term that applies when a change to an employee’s working conditions or unfair treatment forces them to quit. Sometimes this is confused with unfair dismissal, which is where you fire the employee. With constructive dismissal, the employee feels “forced” out of the business due to conditions beyond their control (such as their employer’s behaviour). Usually, an employee can only claim constructive dismissal if they’ve been employed with a company…
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Employee Engagement Survey
Culture and change
Emma Browning

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…
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Strategy
Emma Browning

Top HR Priorities for a business start up

In 2023, more than half of startups (65%) have no dedicated human resources support. That’s a stark contrast to Fortune 100 enterprises, where human resources is a standard department for 100% of top companies. For many startups, this is the result of limited resources. Founders and CEOs are faced with difficult choices, such as whether to devote resources to product development or seeking additional funding. Yet HR is a critically important function for every business. Not only can establishing an HR department early on help your company scale effectively, but…
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Culture and change
elinabyrne

Want to know what our No.1 most asked question is?

How do I manage Millennials? If you want to know our 6 top tips to manage your millennial employees, read our latest blog . . . You need to understand your millennials and work with their strengths.  Today, millennials make up a huge percentage of the workforce, and so it’s essential to both appreciate how to effectively manage them and understand how to encourage their leadership skills. If your company isn’t effectively managing millennials, then even the most impressive list of benefits won’t keep them at your company. They will…
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Development
elinabyrne

Some top tips to retain your talent in challenging times

A recent study from DocuSign showed that, alongside recruitment, talent management was the main priority for 56% of UK firms this year, and it’s not hard to see why. While rising costs are, of course, a pressing issue, there are so many challenges for firms that come from the underlying issue of retaining your best talent. So, whether it’s attracting great talent to join you, or the retention of your great performers or getting the best performance from your existing team, almost every challenge that business owners currently face falls…
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Employment law
Emma Browning

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…
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Q. We are really struggling to recruit, what can you do to help us find good staff, that stay?

It’s a very challenging recruitment market that we are in at the moment. With unemployment at a very low rate, and job vacancies at an all time high, there is a real shortage of candidates available, so its no wonder you are finding it difficult to recruit staff! Competition is tough and anyone looking for work is likely to be applying for other roles, so you need to stand out in the crowd of other job adverts/employers who are looking! We would suggest looking at your Employer Brand first of…
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Culture and change
elinabyrne

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…
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