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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:
If the coronavirus pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that Teams and Zoom meetings are now a normal part of our working day, instead of everyone being together in a meeting room together.
As such, we feel it’s important that employers set some etiquette guidelines to ensure professionalism is maintained; here are some ground rules that we feel will ensure that online meetings are as productive and professional as possible.
Read MoreAs Christmas draws ever closer, we wanted to take the opportunity to of saying that it’s been a huge pleasure working with you this year and we hope that you’re able to recharge your spent batteries over the Christmas period ready for what I very much hope will be a prosperous 2022, despite the best efforts of coronavirus.
Read MoreThe outcomes of the Government’s 2021 consultation on flexible working legislation were published earlier today and we’re likely to see a number of changes to current legislation.
Read MoreDuring the Christmas period companies face a minefield of potential HR challenges and we feel the best way to deal with these is to be prepared. Typically the challenges come from four main areas …
Read MoreIn the Chancellor's Autumn Statement earlier today, the Government announced the new National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) rates, effective from April 2023.
Read MoreIt has been reported that earlier today, the Low Pay Commission, the body that makes recommendations to the UK Government in regard to both the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates, is likely to recommend an increase in the National Living Wage rage (currently applicable to those aged 23 and above), from £9.50 per hour, to £10.32 per hour in 2023 and £10.95 per hour in 2024.
Read MoreAt the end of September 2022 the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced a number of taxation changes that relate to employment, including the repeal of reforms to the Off-Payroll Working (OPW) rules introduced in the public sector in 2017 and extended to medium and large-sized organisations in the private and voluntary sectors in 2021 (often referred to as IR35)
Read MoreAt the end of last week the UK Government published the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill; it’s not the snappiest title for a Government Bill but it could be the most significant piece of legislation we’ve seen in recent memory.
Read MoreWith effect from 1st October 2022, this amended process for confirming an employee’s right to work in the UK has been withdrawn.
Read MoreFollowing the recent passing of Queen Elizabeth II, the Government has announced that the day of her funeral, September 19th 2022, will be a public holiday.
This raises a number of questions for employers.
Read MoreMany employers use probationary periods within their employment contracts as a means of assessing an employee’s suitability and capability and where the employee falls short in either, they dismiss the employee …. But is the very existence of the probationary period preventing employees from doing as well as they might in this initial period.
Read MoreIt’s fairly common in most employment contracts for the first few months of a new starter’s employment to be a probationary period, the premise being that if the employee’s conduct or performance doesn't meet the required standard within this period, their employment can be terminated, or the probationary period extended.
Read MoreI was delighted to be asked recently by a colleague for my thoughts and tips on how to successfully onboard and integrate senior appointees. In most companies, senior appointments are a rarity and even where companies have established processes for onboarding staff, these are often considered overbearing for those in senior positions.
Read MoreIn a previous article we’ve discussed the fact that where an employee is dismissed for refusing to attend work or carry out duties because they believe their health and safety is at serious and imminent risk, the dismissal would be automatically unfair.
Read MoreThe beginning of April and October are the two dates each year where changes to employment law take place although with the Government having been focused on Brexit and latterly COVID-19, there have been no major changes to report. What changes are on the horizon though?
Read MoreOver 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 …
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