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Pod 6, The Engine Rooms, Station Road
Chepstow
Monmouthshire
01633 730907
For more than 10 years we have provided companies of all sizes and in a variety of sectors with uncomplicated, innovative and affordable human resources advice and on-site support ensuring that your people are an asset to your company and not a liability.
With the National Minimum Wage (NMW) now almost fifteen years old, and with another increase pending on 1st April 2017 HMRC have issued a list of the most elaborate excuses they've been given by employers for not paying the appropriate rates:
Over the course of the last few weeks, there’s been a good deal of news coverage and commentary about P+O Ferries decision to dismiss around eight hundred employees and replace them with overseas agency workers, without any prior notice.
Read MoreThe Government has announced the statutory rate changes that will take effect from 1st April 2022. The changes are as follows …
Read MoreWith the end of COVID restrictions coming to an end, in England at least, on Thursday of this week, there are a couple of things that we feel employers need to know.
Read MoreWith Government COVID advice changing to longer require employees to work from home if they can, we’ve received an increasing number of enquiries as to whether employers can insist that employees return to work from their offices.
Read MoreThe Government has announced that the National Living Wage and the National Minimum Wage rates will increase from the beginning of April 2022 …
Read MoreIt’s been eighteen months now since COVID-19 hit the UK and within the last few weeks, we’ve seen the first of what are likely to be a number of Employment Tribunal decisions relating to both employees and employers actions during the pandemic.
Read MoreWe’re delighted to announce that Alan completed this Big Hike in the Brecon Beacons on 11th September, raising a massive £2,600 (plus £416.25 of Gift Aid) for Cancer Research UK.
Read MoreThe Labour Party announced earlier this week its plans, if elected to Government, to amalgamate the current statuses of ‘employee’ and ‘worker’ into one ‘worker’ status, encompassing employees, zero hours workers and casual workers.
Read MoreEarlier this week, the UK Government issued a report following its recent consultation on Sexual Harassment in the workplace.
Read MoreTwo years ago PulseHR’s founder Alan received the news that no-one wants to hear, that he had cancer, kidney cancer to be specific.
A precautionary ultrasound scan found a tennis ball sized malignant tumour which was ultimately removed along with the kidney.
Two years on, there’s no sign of secondary disease and now it’s time to say thank you to those people who made the recovery possible and raise some money for Cancer Research UK for their amazing and critical research.
On 11th September Alan will be taking part in the Cancer Research UK Big Hike, a 25 mile walk in the Brecon Beacons taking in Pen y Fan as part of the route.
It’d be great if you’re able support his effort and donate to his fundraising page and help him reach his target of raising £1,000, £40 per mile.
All donations gratefully received. Click here to go to Alan’s fundraising page.
Alan has another free place for the hike if anyone wants to join him and support Cancer Research UK themsves; if you’re interested, let Alan know.
Thanks in advance
With more and more companies looking at employees working from home or splitting their working time between work and home, virtual teams are certainly here to stay and developing them to be successful brings its own challenges.
Read MoreThe Government has announced that there will be an additional bank holiday in 2022 to commemorate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Read MoreOn 30th June 2021, all EEA citizens that haven’t provided their employer with evidence of either ’settled status’,’pre-settled status’ will cease to be eligible to remain and hence work in the UK.
Read MoreThe Government has confirmed that the interim arrangements for carrying out right to work in the UK checks will continue until 20th June 2021, the day before the Prime Minister has announced that all COVID-19 restrictions will end, in England at least.
Read MoreWithin the last few days, the Court of Appeal has ruled - entirely consistently with the above Supreme Court judgement - in Addison Lee v Lange that its drivers are also workers and not self-employed contractors whilst logged in to the Addison Lee app, again irrespective of whether they were carrying a fare or not.
Read MoreA recent EAT (Alley v Gehlan) ruling answered the question: Can an employer rely on the 'reasonable steps' defence to harassment where it provided training to the perpetrator of harassment and other employees?
Not where that training had become ‘stale’ and needed refreshing, was the answer.
Read MoreSection 44 of the Employment Rights Act affords employees the right not to suffer any detriments for refusing to work in an environment which they reasonably believe places them (or someone else) in serious, imminent danger.
Read MoreIn what has been a long and arduous journey for both parties, we’ve finally reached the end of the legal road in the matter of Uber vs. Aslam as the Supreme Court hands down its judgement that Uber drivers are in fact workers and not self-employed from the point that they switch on their app to the point they switch it off.
Read MoreWe’re pleased to announce that with effect from today, PulseHQ willow be in Chepstow in the recent finished Engine Rooms development.
Read MoreYou may well recall that the changes to IR35 legislation, such that it will now apply to medium and large private sector companies, due to come in to force in April 2020 were delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, until April 2021.
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