Opinion: Learning from experience
Imagine a system where staff not only use reflective practice as standard, but also share those light-bulb moments. Prof Michael Kelleher explains how it can work and why learning and development professionals are the perfect people to make it happen. Reflection is an active process. It involves the examination of past experiences and gaining some […]
HR Happy, HR Horror
From British anti-nudes to swapping wives for donkeys, it’s been another wonderful week. Join us as we look back over the best stories from the past five days. Happy: For Blair’s IT ignorance Tony Blair has admitted that he “struggle[s] to do more than switch on a computer”, the Metro newspaper reports. This is an […]
HR Zone Briefing #290 – Off The Record Employment Law Advice
================================================================ HR Briefing Issue 290 – 6 April 2006 http://www.hrzone.co.uk ================================================================ *********************** Featured Sponsors ********************** Strategic, compliant human capital management with Oracle http://www.hrzone.co.uk/redirects/oracle11a.html **************************************************************** Editor’s Note ============= Amanda Shaw, head of HR at Cottrills gives her views on the way age discrimination laws will affect service related award schemes. http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/153317 Elsewhere, the debate on whether […]
Comment: The impact of age discrimination laws on service related awards … continued
What practical steps should be taken?To support a decision to continue with long service awards, you may also wish to consider the following popular measures to assess how your organisation can benefit from such schemes: Survey staff views HR benchmarking figures Reduction in turnover Exit interviews Trade union and staff association Special review groups Survey […]
Comment: The impact of age discrimination laws on service related awards
How will new regulations outlawing age discrimination affect service related award schemes? Amanda Shaw, head of HR at Cottrills, comments on the Employment Equality (Age) Regulation 2006 draft paper. Until now, there has been no legislation dealing with age discrimination in Great Britain. This will change in October 2006 when legislation will be introduced outlawing […]
HR Practitioner’s Diary: Training in foreign tongues … continued
Wanted – employees with a history of bad behaviour!How’s this for a revelation, yet another recent article to confuse your ‘bosses’ even more about the ‘ideal’ workforce.Rather than looking to staff who are cheerful, punctual, flexible, smart and honest, businesses are being encouraged to consider employing staff with ‘flawed’ personalities – it would appear that […]
HR Practitioner’s Diary: Training in foreign tongues
HR consultant Sue Kingston, our very own ‘Bridget Jones’ files her latest diary extract including rescuing a food business from a potentially disastrous health and safety inspection, handling training with a group of non-English speakers, dating disasters and triumphs and more on those vital wine and chocolate statistics. March 2006I just don’t know where the […]
What’s the answer? Notice periods … continued
Martin Brewer, is a Partner with the employment team of Mills & Reeve Karen, the law on notice periods is pretty straightforward. You are required to give the notice set out in your written contract PROVIDED that is equal to, or more than the statutory notice period (see below). If you don't have a written […]
What’s the answer? Notice periods
Karen Beardsley gets legal guidance this week from Helen Badger, employment law expert at Browne Jacobson and Martin Brewer, a Partner with the employment team of Mills & Reeve on the law regarding notice periods. The question:"Can anyone help on the law regarding notice periods? Do we have to give notice to someone who has […]
Gaynor’s Thoughts: Happy redundancies – a life changing opportunity … continued
I decided to start my research at a local pub that had been the Friday night after work stop-off for many of the people who had worked at the factory. When I arrived I bumped into Peter who used to be the trade union convenor at the factory. To my surprise he was very warm […]
Gaynor’s Thoughts: Happy redundancies – a life changing opportunity
Roy Gaynor, Managing Director of management consultants' training and support network, Navisys Academy recounts his experiences as a head of HR, when he had to make redundancies and reflects on what he learned about the process from those that lost their jobs. I was once the head of HR at an engineering company that employed […]
Member’s Tip: Recruiting a UK-based worker for employment overseas
Lizzie Allen explains what a company should consider when hiring a UK-based worker for employment in Germany. TaxWhether the employees are German or English, they will be liable to pay German income tax as that’s where they’ll be working. If they were living and working in the UK and paying UK income tax prior to […]
What happened next? Dealing with Drugs…continued. By Sarah Fletcher
Read on to discover the outcome and learning points of this drug-driven situation; and how the members’ forum responded to the problem. Which sources of information did you find the most useful?We used the experience of our team, to be honest. They have seen it all before.What would you have done differently with hindsight?We should […]
What happened next? Dealing with drugs. By Sarah Fletcher
How do you handle an employee whose drug-fuelled weekends are spilling over into working hours? Find out What Happened Next when member Claire Fitzgerald asked Any Answers how to make her workplace a pill free zone. By Sarah Fletcher How do we stop the downward spiral?“A valued member of our team has a really bad […]
HR Zone Members Newswire #144 – Controlling the Office Gossip
================================================================ HR Zone Members Newswire Issue 144 4 April 2006 www.hrzone.co.uk ================================================================ *********************** Featured Sponsors ********************** Frontier Software – Serving your business better http://www.hrzone.co.uk/redirects/frontier1a.html Reward Recognition – Interview with Centre Island http://www.hrzone.co.uk/redirects/cottrillsa.html **************************************************************** Editor’s note ============= Can a confidentiality agreement curb an office gossip? We asked Helen Badger, employment law expert at Browne Jacobson and […]
Figuring Things Out: Leadership development – Maximising the yield … continued
Business outcomes:Clearly defining the anticipated business outcomes of the leadership development initiative is fundamental. Too many leadership programmes are implemented with, at best, only a sketchy definition of the expected benefits to the individual and more importantly the organisation. Defining the anticipated outcomes of the initiative in business terms provides connection between the learning and […]
Figuring Things Out: Leadership development – Maximising the yield
Effective leaders manage processes that yield optimal results. This being true, why do so many organisations not maximise the value of development in workplace application? In the final analysis, leadership development is designed to produce better qualified, more effective leaders that improve business results; or so the theory goes. Converting leadership development into business results, […]
Off the record: Dealing with an office romance … continued
The key to all employment law is dialogue and it should be possible – in most cases – to avoid such issues by discussing the problems and possible solutions with both employees concerned.In reality, it is after a relationship has broken down that most problems arise, with the disappointed party being accused, or accusing the […]
Off the record: Dealing with an office romance
Daniel Isaac, a principal in the employment team at City law firm Withers LLP explains how to manage two employees whose affair is affecting their work. With long working hours, workplace romances are on the increase. In the US, many employers have policies forbidding romantic relationships at work. These are less common in the UK […]
HR Tip: Refusing SSP
These questions are being answered by Learn HR, a market leader in the provision of HR and payroll training and nationally-recognised professional qualifications. Q: Can I refuse to pay Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) to a man if I doubt that his self-certified sickness was genuine? A: Yes, provided you have carried out a thorough investigation and […]
