Managing Employee Performance

Managing Employee Performance – The What and the Why As your business grows, you will find yourself needing some help managing your team. This is an exciting time, but it also means you need to make some tough decisions. For example, do you hire an internal HR manager for your business? Or do you outsource…

Unfair Dismissal

Heat of the Moment Decisions – Potential Unfair Dismissal As employer’s we have all experienced employees who have threatened to leave or have decided after an incident or during a meeting, that they have “had enough” and said I am leaving, or just leave for the day. As an employer it is not always clear…

Changes to Flexible Working Legislation

Businesses should begin to think about the impact of how new legislation will affect ways of working. Currently new employees must wait 26 weeks, after their start date, before they are able to make a flexible working request and they can only make 1 request a year. Forthcoming legislation will allow employees to make requests…

Appeal option for Dismissals

Why employers should have an Appeal as an option in the event of a Dismissal In the event of an employment tribunal claim, the tribunal is looking for fairness and reasonableness during the process. We recommend that an Appeal is always offered as this enables the employee to challenge something they may see as unfair…

Pregnancy Actions

There have been a number of pregnancy and maternity-related employment tribunal rulings this year – we review what actions businesses should take Guildford HR finds that many of its’ clients are not aware of their responsibilities in this area, we hope you find this short article useful, but it is a complex area, so please…