Managing employees/workers
Leading practice guidance discussing why employers should continue to assess the assignee's performance while they are on an assignment and the importance of dealing with any performance or conduct issues quickly.
Leading practice guidance discussing how organisations can assist international assignees with the practical arrangements of relocating abroad, such as obtaining immigration permission and helping find suitable accommodation.
Leading practice guidance discussing how employers can support the assignee and their accompanying family members settle and feel part of the local community in the host country.
Leading practice guidance discussing how employers can facilitate an assignee's return to the home organisation and improve their international assignments programme by learning from previous assignments.
WhatsApp and other informal messaging platforms are an invaluable communication resources for individuals and groups. But as some recent legal cases have shown, they can also create problems when they are used in a work environment. Sam Dickinson, a partner at Mayo Wynne Baxter solicitors, joins the podcasts to talk about the pitfalls - and what employers can do to manage risk.
Two hundred UK companies have now signed up for a permanent four-day working week, according to the 4 Day Week Foundation.
Motherhood is at the heart of a lot of policies in the contemporary workplace, where the narrative often focuses around an ideal that everyone is or wants to be a mother. This can be incredibly excluding for non-mothers. It's great to provide policies and benefits that support parents, says Caroline Green, but how can you supplement your support for everyone else?
Updated to include new details on neonatal care leave (for a child born on or after 6 April 2025).
A new right for parents to take up to 12 weeks' neonatal care leave if their baby requires medical or palliative care is introduced on 6 April 2025. Now that the Government has published the remaining legislation needed to bring the new right into force, we set out what HR professionals need to know about neonatal care leave.
In the second part of a new series delving into the details of the Employment Rights Bill, we look at the proposed changes to the right to make a flexible working request.
HR and legal information and guidance relating to managing employees/workers.