
How to boost employee engagement during summer
Are you finding it hard to keep your employees engaged during summer? Take a second and have a look around your workplace. Do you see

How do zero hours contracts work?
Blog Employers and managers may have heard a lot about zero hours contracts. After all, their use by employers has been debated by MPs and

Guide for Employers | What are the pros & cons of zero hours contracts?
Understanding the advantages and disadvantages of zero-hour contracts is pivotal in shaping workforce flexibility. In this blog, we’ll dissect the pros and cons, looking at

Bereaved employed parents could get paid time off
Under a proposed new law, employed parents will get statutory paid time off work to mourn the death of their child. The Parental Bereavement (Pay

Haulage firm fined after load fall
A haulage firm employee was hit on the head when metal ducting weighing 28kg fell from the top of a double-decker trailer. The blow fractured

Firm handed fine after unsuitable safety controls
An agency worker suffered serious hand injuries while cleaning a lathe because the safety controls in place for the task were unsuitable. The court heard

Gender pay gap reporting – what do employers need to know
The release of the pay of the top stars from the BBC has brought to the fore gender pay gap reporting. The regulation, which came

Is it time to scrap the annual review?
Annual reviews are the two words that cause many to think “oh here we go again”. Line managers dread the mountains of paperwork required and

Crazy excuses employees give for missing work
Blog Are your workers coming up with imaginative reasons for not being able to come into work? The answer is probably yes. According to a

An employer’s guide to the Taylor Review
The eagerly-awaited Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices has now been published, touching on a wide range of areas of employment law. In this 116

Should you let your employees vape at work?
Many people are swapping tobacco cigarettes for e-cigarettes, with Public Health England estimating that there are around 2. 8 million adults using them in Great

Longer sentences for H&S manslaughter?
You may be given a longer prison sentence if as an employer you commit gross negligence manslaughter. Gross negligence manslaughter is used to prosecute people