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Bank Holidays: what cost to your business?
With May being a particularly heavy month for bank holidays HR Manager, Laura Rigby, has cast a timely eye over how the employment contract you offer could be adding considerable costs to your business. If you don’t work in retail, the chances are that you welcome bank holidays with both arms and eagerly anticipate the […]
May 12, 2016
Who are we to judge? By HR180’s founder and MD, Claire Morley-Jones
Driving into work this morning I became slightly infuriated by the BBC Radio 4’s coverage of WPP chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell’s pay package. The poor guy was being grilled mercilessly by Today programme’s Sarah Montague about whether he is worth the £70m proposed this year if shareholders vote in favour of the proposal at […]
April 28, 2016
Fattism: new protected characteristic?
In order to reduce discriminatory action taking place against employees within the workplace there is a set of protected characteristics established in the Equality Act 2010. These are split into several categories reflecting existing discriminatory protections: age, race, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion/belief, sex and sexual orientation. The protected […]
April 26, 2016
Does mindfulness at work carry a legal risk?
Hannah Ford, 15 April 2016 Employers could create more stresses than they alleviate, and they may even be open to claims, writes employment lawyer Hannah Ford. It seems you can’t go a day without another headline about workplace stress. Employers lost 9.9 million working days to work-related stress, depression and anxiety in 2014-15, according to […]
April 19, 2016
Managing employee performance when levels of Leaveism increase
Current research into Leaveism is in the earliest of stages but it is important that employers are aware of its causes and impact on employee wellbeing and how to manage it. What is Leaveism? Most employers are aware of the terms absenteeism and presenteeism in relation to workers within an organisation. However a new behaviour […]
April 18, 2016
National Living Wage – Avoid issues
The National Living Wage has been introduced on 1st April 2016 which has crept up extremely quickly! It seems relatively straight forward at first glance, an increase to £7.20 per hour for anyone 25 years and older, but it actually requires more attention than you may first think. Here are a few handy tips to […]
April 13, 2016
How HR can kick-start an innovation culture
Penny Whitelock and Wendy Dean, 8 April 2016 You can’t sit around waiting for inspiration to strike, say Penny Whitelock and Wendy Dean – you have to work hard to cultivate innovation. Gone are the days when innovation was the territory of a boffin in a lab somewhere. In an unpredictable economy, managers who inspire […]
April 12, 2016
The 3 Cs – Commitment, Connection, Culture
A few weeks ago I attended an evening with Kevin Gaskell at KPMG in Leeds. Admittedly, I’d never heard of Kevin but I’d been invited by one of our clients and having skim read through the information within the invitation I thought it looked interesting. Upon arrival I met up with our client, grabbed a […]
April 4, 2016
Can too much praise be harmful?
The urge to be liked is a natural human instinct which is why it doesn’t surprise me that it has been said that leaders are handing out unwarranted praise to new employees. Let’s face it, nobody wants to feel like the ‘bad guy’! Experts have said that this could potentially be harmful for employees and […]
March 30, 2016
Short men and overweight women ‘earn £1,500 less at work’
Vicki Arnstein 11 March 2016 Study points to ‘awful but true’ unconscious biases among employers, say experts Employers are being warned not to unwittingly discriminate against people because of their height or weight, after researchers at the University of Exeter found that short men and overweight women earn less. A study that examined data from […]
March 29, 2016
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