Category: Leadership

Q. Can we revoke an employment offer?

Job offers usually fall into two categories: Conditional: A job offer is made based on set criteria being met. A job offer can be withdrawn at any time if it’s found that the conditions set out in the offer haven’t been met. These conditions may include: Being unable to demonstrate eligibility to work in the country. Failing to hold or provide qualifications specific to that job role. Not being able to provide satisfactory references. Being unable to pass any background checks that have been requested. Unconditional: A job offer is…
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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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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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Development
Emma Browning

Why appraisals don’t have to be a chore (or a bore!)

The frequent check-in. It sounds so simple doesn’t it? So why is it so difficult to achieve and how can you make it a reality. In this blog we look at what the businesses who have got it right are doing.  The businesses seeing the most success from their review process tend to adopt four key approaches; They build from scratch One of the most common mistakes we see, is a business introducing an appraisal or review process without employee or management input or buy in to a new process.…
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Culture and change
Emma Browning

Want to know what keeps people at your company?

Sounds obvious doesn’t it – just ask them – but you’d be surprised by how many employers don’t! We’re all familiar with exit interviews as a chance for employees to openly share their experiences working with an organisation as they make their way out the door. While this is a vital tool in gathering data to assess what prompts an employee’s exit, it’s too late at that point to retain them. Enter the stay interview — an opportunity to engage in a one-on-one conversation to ask current employees, “what keeps…
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Development
Emma Browning

Improving People’s Performance is as easy as 123….

If you want to achieve big improvements in performance, you just need clear and effective processes in place to help you to get there! Improving People’s Performance is as easy as 123! Ok, maybe it’s not that easy! But it doesn’t take an HR expert to tell you that if you want your company to thrive, you need to make sure that your staff are really performing at their best. But when it comes to the tricky business of managing people, this can be much easier said than done. Your…
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Development
Emma Browning

Want to learn some new skills? Here’s our up and coming FREE Zoominars

At Meraki HR, we love to help our clients develop their leadership and people management and for the last 7 years we’ve run informative and practical workshops to help you or your team develop their skills. We now run a number of FREE Zoominars each year based on what our clients tell us they would like to hear from us about, so here’s a snapshot of what’s coming up!  We’d love for you to join us for one of our up and coming Zoominars! Bring a cuppa, get comfortable and…
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Leadership
Emma Browning

What Does it Take to Succeed in HR?

If you’ve got someone in your business working in HR or responsible for HR, is their work helping you achieve your business goals? If not, it could be that you haven’t got the right person with the right skills and experience supporting you, or perhaps their job description doesn’t reflect what you really need in your business from HR? Having spent over 20 years in HR working in start-ups, scale ups and working for some blue chip corporates too like Porsche Cars and Harley-Davidson, I know what it takes to…
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