If you are running a standard business with standard staff then a standard ‘contract’ may work for you. Employment law is often approached as if contracts of employment are simply about compliance. A simple standard contract works for a simple standard business. …more…
Over 2.7 million people have been made redundant in the UK in the last few years. While the boss often needs to make redundancies, we need to do it without causing unnecessary harm. It is so easy to focus on compliance and forget that we need to have real conversations, with real people who are…more…
Many of the problems we deal with on our telephone advice service are really to do with performance management. Often it’s not put that way. The issue raised at the start of the conversation might be: – complaints about bullying problems in managing maternity leave (“the maternity cover is better than the original employee”) redundancy…more…
Your business will grow and change. Sometimes the effort of trying to make it all happen can seem overwhelming. If you don’t change the structure of your business to fit what you are trying to achieve you are going to make things very hard for yourself. Yet we all dread restructuring our businesses. Whether…more…
Do you believe equality legislation means there are people you can’t talk to, and things you can never say?
It’s a common feeling, but if you let it dictate how your run your team you will create little groups of people who never do their jobs. …more…
The school system is remarkably unable to link up with parents and bosses when it comes to Christmas. A few weeks before Christmas we get notes about Christmas plays and concerts (a must do for at least one parent in most households) and to cap it all a lot of schools close at lunchtime on…more…
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