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How can you achieve employee happiness and why is it so important?
The Case for Employee Happiness Employee happiness directly impacts various aspects of a business, including productivity, retention, customer experience, innovation, collaboration, employer brand, and employee well-being. By investing in employee happiness,...
How can you as a business promote well-being?
Employers can implement various incentives and initiatives to promote mental health in the workplace. Here are some examples: 1. Mental Health Education and Training: Offer workshops, training sessions, or webinars on mental health awareness, stress management,...
ACAS has recently published some guidance on ‘Reasonable adjustments for mental health’.
https://lnkd.in/esrYxDwE The guidance emphasises that employers should take mental health problems as seriously as physical illnesses and points out that making reasonable adjustments for mental health can help employees to stay in work and work safely and...
Mental Health Awareness Week 15th May 2023
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week. The Mental Health Foundation are focusing on anxiety and the things that can help. What is Anxiety? Anxiety is a human trait that everyone experiences, this can help us to be aware of and respond to threats and danger. But...
How to Solve a Problem Like Recruitment? (or begin to )
With currently over 1 million vacancies unfilled and everyone I speak to telling me they are struggling to recruit, I often ask “are you offering the role as part-time/ job share/flexi-time/hybrid?” and 99% of the time they answer “no, that’s not an option for us”. I...
Without Prejudice
In the recent case of Meaker V Cyxtera Technology UK Limited the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) found that a ‘without prejudice’ letter from an employer offering a settlement agreement amounted to an effective dismissal letter. The without prejudice letter was sent...
Reminder-National Minimum Wage
New National Minimum Wage Rates The rates which will apply from 1 April 2023 are as follows: Rate from April 2023 Annual increase (£) Annual increase (per cent) National Living Wage £10.42 0.92 9.7 21-22 Year Old Rate £10.18 1.00 10.9 18-20 Year Old Rate £7.49 0.66...
Flexible Working Requests
Are you dealing with flexible working requests correctly? Since the pandemic, employers have reported an increase in the number of flexible working requests that they are receiving. This is no surprise, in a market where candidates are hand picking their employers,...
Twitter Account
Although a signature on a policy is not a legal requirement for evidencing agreement, it will be acceptable evidence in any tribunal proceedings that an employee has read and understood a policy. An employment tribunal has ruled that a train driver who posted...