Fitzgerald HR provides Employee Relations articles to help businesses implement procedures and best practices, and to inform them of the current government guidelines and rules, enabling them to get the best from their employees.
As the new financial year approaches, many businesses are reviewing their workforce plans. From 6th April, employer National Insurance contributions (NICs) will increase, as announced in the Autumn Budget. Combined with slow economic growth, this is prompting many workplaces to consider restructuring. When people think of workplace restructuring, they often immediately think of redundancies – … Read more
Our guide for employers includes tips for handling a redundancy process. The process you need to follow depends on how many redundancies you need to make.
2024 has been a busy year. From multi-million-pound discrimination awards to contentious cases around “fire and rehire,” the year has brought some headline-grabbing developments. For employers, these cases aren’t just fascinating – they’re a series of ‘how-tos’ when it comes to avoiding the same mistakes in your organisation. In this article, we break down the … Read more
Managers sometimes shy away from dealing with underperforming employees because of worries about breaching employment legislation or handling difficult conversations. However, the effects of unsatisfactory performance shouldn’t be underestimated. Are you, or others, spending time each week correcting mistakes made by the same staff member? Or are you losing business because an employee is failing … Read more
When an employee hands in their notice, they’re usually expected to work their full notice period unless agreed otherwise with their line manager. But in some cases, they may be put on garden leave. Garden leave or gardening leave, is when an employee who is leaving an organisation is asked not to come to work … Read more
There are four main ways of measuring time lost to sickness absence in the workplace. These are: In this article, we provide an overview of each of these methods and explain sickness absence rate calculations using these approaches. Let’s dive straight in and learn about measuring absence in the workplace. Why we need to be … Read more
Negative attitudes towards whistleblowing are destructive, and can have costly consequences in an employment tribunal setting.
When we think about workplace bullying, we usually think about bullying between colleagues or senior staff members bullying those in more junior positions. However, we are now seeing increased numbers of workplaces reporting instances of junior staff members bullying those in management positions, in what is known as ‘upward bullying’. It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly … Read more
We have all, at some point, been late for work. There will always be occasions where something happens, out of our control, which prevents us from arriving to work on time. However, when an employee is regularly late for work, at best, this can be frustrating but, at worst it can have a detrimental impact … Read more
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