Managing employees/workers
Our "how to" guides provide practical step-by-step guidance on a range of responsibilities within the HR role.
HR professionals must ensure that their organisation is on top of the raft of employment law developments in April 2023. These changes include rises in national minimum wage rates, gender pay gap reporting deadlines, and increases to statutory redundancy pay and maternity pay.
Louise Haycock, partner and immigration solicitor at law firm Fragomen, discusses the challenges and opportunities arising in immigration in 2023 for HR and employers, including the sponsored worker regime, changes to right to work checks and benefits and issues arising from hybrid and remote working.
Almost every organisation that took part in the UK trial of a four-day week (92%) has decided to continue with a shorter working week, after the pilot saw a reduction in burnout, anxiety, fatigue and sickness absence.
For years, HR teams in public services have been used to managing long-term contracts with outsourcing companies. But as citizens demand greater levels of transparency and fairness, a number of employers are bringing those services back in-house. Jo Faragher examines how "insourcing" might play out.
A model policy to set out any time off that your organisation grants to employees who are undergoing fertility treatment and explains the support available to them.
The now-defunct Office for Tax Simplification recently highlighted the need for tax policy to be aligned with modern working practices, including hybrid and remote working from overseas. Susan Ball, employment solutions partner at audit, tax and consulting firm RSM UK, looks at what employers need to know from a tax perspective.
The Carer's Leave Bill, which could see working carers get access to one week of unpaid carer's leave, has been passed by MPs.
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