The Four Stages of Employee Engagement
A summary of the four key stages of employee engagement and what you can do to continuously improve your employees’ emotional commitment to your business.
HR
How to handle a school safeguarding issue with an employee
It’s one of the issues that most Headteachers dread and hope will never happen: you’re made aware of a potential safeguarding issue which involves a member of staff. This can cover a multitude of scenarios: a complaint from a parent that a staff member is having inappropriate contact with a pupil via social media; pornographic … Read more
Disability and Recruitment
Many employers can find themselves in a situation where they become aware that a recently appointed employee has a disability. This often causes significant concern for the employer as they worry about the potential costs of making reasonable adjustments. However, this need not be the case: reasonable adjustments are not necessarily expensive or difficult to … Read more
The Apprenticeship Levy Explained
6th April 2017 will see changes to the way the government funds apprenticeships in England. George Osborne announced in his Autumn Statement in November 2015, as Chancellor at that time, a target of achieving 3 million ‘high quality’ apprenticeships by 2020. This will obviously cost money and Mr Osborne has placed the responsibility for funding … Read more
Handling sickness absence this summer
It’s been a sport-packed summer so far and more to come…Wimbledon, Euros, Olympics, Paralympics. Summer also brings the good weather, which can lead to long hot sunny afternoons. From time to time, employees may ‘pull a sickie’ in order to catch the sporting action, or to spend a day in the sun. “Sickies” can be … Read more
