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As the furlough scheme winds down, what support can an employer claim towards their employment costs? Millie Dawson explains below. Back to Basics: What is “Furlough”? The term ‘Furlough’ is a concept introduced to UK employment law in April 2020 and refers to a type of leave where the employee receives 80% of their salary […]

As we return to the workplace, the primary focus of conversations is either managing furlough or redundancy. It seems as though employee mental health is being side-lined right now as employers firefight their way through lockdown and beyond. According to ACAS, mental illness is the greatest cause for disability in the UK and so organisations […]

Leaders who rely solely on functional HR are missing a vital link in their business strategy. If you employ people, now is the time for HR to be top of your agenda. In times of crisis, it’s easy to lose sight of your long term goals and focus purely on firefighting day to day issues […]

Stop demonising employers!!! They are real people trying to run a business to support their families, and yours. I get that you’re scared of the Coronavirus and that’s a valid fear. I know you don’t want to catch it, or your family to do so or pass it on to others. Employers don’t want that […]

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) are encouraging businesses to adopt the following test before bringing back those employees who are unable to work from home: 1.Is it essential? If your employees can continue to work from home, then they must do so. If they are unable to work from home, then you […]

We are in week 7 of lockdown and UK businesses are continuing to report a significant downturn in work. The fear is that the continued lockdown could have a significant long-term detrimental effect on their business and consequently their workforce. We are starting to have conversations about changes to T&Cs and redundancies. A recent CIPD […]

As we are urged to restrict social contact in order to protect vulnerable members of our society, some employees are disclosing personal health challenges and details of medical conditions suffered by people close to them in order to justify their reasons for choosing to self-isolate, even though they don’t have any symptoms of the virus. […]

Our clients are starting to postpone on site meetings with us and we have had to ask some staff to work from home. The effects of the Coronavirus are starting to feel real now. As a small business, we’re hanging on in there, trying to maintain business as usual but we’re in a fortunate position […]

The World Health Organisation has advised that we should act “as if the virus is going to show up tomorrow. [We’re] in an interconnected world.” Planning for this has been on the agenda for global businesses for weeks but with the virus now hitting Europe, the time has come for us all to think about […]

Engagement. The latest buzzword in HR and one that has created great confusion and uncertainty in the workplace. Employee engagement is the term used to explain how committed your employees are to your company; it’s the emotional commitment that the employees have to the business and its goals and how driven they are to come […]