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You’re in the battlefield with a member of staff. You don’t how it escalated so quickly or what to do next to avoid making matters worse. They call in sick and you breathe a sigh of relief that you don’t have to face them at work for a while. But the issue doesn’t go away. […]

You may already have a HR business partner or employment lawyer on speed dial, but are there gaps in their knowledge, advice and experience that mean you need the next level of support? Do you have an unmanageable employee relations issue that looks like it is going to blow? Are your internal resources too bogged […]

I’ve noticed that more employees are demanding their rights be observed, quoting ACAS or their lawyers, even where there is no resistance from their employers to them exercising those rights anyway! Sometimes the hostility is counter-productive and destroys the working relationship completely. A client was informed by a new starter that she was 6 months […]

Well, actually, I don’t hate all employees, despite what some people think. I picked a side in workplace conflicts and decided to help employers get out of their sh*tshows, regardless of who caused the issue in the first place. I don’t enjoy working with liars, fakers, game players, lazy louts, takers and the unjustifiably entitled, […]