HR & Employment Law Insights
Helping family businesses, start-ups and early stage growth, third sector, professional services, trades and construction, manufacturing and engineering, and other growing or established businesses throughout the UK make sense of HR and employment law challenges.We hope you enjoy the wide range of blog articles featured. We cover a wide range of topics including HR best practices, employment law updates, recruitment strategies, employee engagement, tips for effective people management, and addressing people challenges to help businesses navigate their HR needs with confidence.
How to Measure Employee Absence
Employee absence is a serious problem for many businesses in terms of time and money. There are also hidden costs associated with absenteeism problems within a business. It's possible that staff will need time off during their employment either for short-term of...
Meet Our HR Assistant, Chloe Shepherd
I joined The HR Booth in March 2022 as an outsourced HR Assistant whilst finishing University. I first reached out to Alistair at The HR Booth in 2021 whilst finishing my 3rd year and was looking to make connections in the HR world. I wished to peruse a career in HR...
New Change to Fit Note Procedure
The Department for Work and Pensions have introduced new rules to the fit note procedure. From 1st July 2022, pharmacists, nurses, occupational therapists, and physiotherapists can now legally certify fit notes. This was something that only doctors were able to do up...
How to Avoid an Unfair Dismissal Claim
We recently read about an NHS Nurse who won an unfair dismissal claim after they were sacked for being off too much. The tribunal found that the nurse suffers with migraines, depression, and anxiety which are considered disabilities. The tribunal also found evidence...
How to Handle a Grievance Procedure
Since the pandemic began at the beginning of 2020, it’s safe to say that tensions have run high at times. It's not too surprising that we've had a lot of enquires lately about how to handle a grievance procedure. The most common complaints employers are seeing lately...
Monkeypox: An Employers Guide
The first case of Monkeypox was detected in Scotland on Monday. As the virus spreads throughout the country, businesses are becoming increasingly concerned about their employees and workplace. Companies have already had to adapt over the last two years and are worried...
HR Advice for Small Business
A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that HR advice for small business is unnecessary. However, small businesses face a lot of demands when growing their company and can benefit from support from a HR Consultant. No matter the size of your company, hiring and...
How Can HR Help Save Money?
Our HR Consultants Glasgow team have expanded at a rapid rate over the last couple of years so we can offer even more HR support within the Glasgow area and beyond. We already support a lot of clients throughout Glasgow with their HR and recruitment needs and...
Support Employees Through The Cost of Living Crisis: Advice
We're being asked by lots of clients what to do, or what other businesses are doing, to support their employees through the cost of living crisis. The cost of inflation and living have already rocketed this year. In fact, after decades of low UK inflation and wage...
HR Policies for Small Businesses UK
As business owners, we've all had to adapt and change in order to comply with constant restrictions and government enforced employment law changes over the past 2 years. One thing that may have been overlooked is HR policies for small businesses UK. In addition, we...
Mental Health Awareness Week
Unlock the power of Mental Health Awareness Week. Discover how prioritising mental wellbeing transforms workplaces. Engage in vital conversations about mental health, especially loneliness, affecting us after years of isolation. Explore resources to support your team’s mental health journey.
Is Mass Sacking Legal?
P&O Ferries have made the news a lot lately due to mass sacking and safety allegations. The first scandal broke earlier in the year that 800 employees were made redundant without any warning by the medium of a 3-minute pre-recorded video. As part of this short...
Top Tips for attracting graduates to your business
Graduates can be a valuable member of your team as they offer a fresh perspective on the working world. In addition, it's important to get your recruitment message right when attracting graduates. It's time to think like a candidate and put things in place to attract...
Flexible Workforce Development Fund
Skills Development Scotland have launched a flexible workforce development fund that's available to all Scottish employers. The main purpose of the fund is to help businesses in Scotland to up-skill and also re-skill their staff.There are currently 3 different routes...
What is a Mental Health First Aider?
Many of our HR experts recently completed their FAA Mental Health First Aider training. The SCQF level 6 qualification course looks at mental health conditions and gives insight in to the wide range of therapy and support available. When sharing this news to our...
Extra Bank Holiday for Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022
There will be an extra bank holiday on 3rd June 2022 to celebrate the Queen’s platinum jubilee. The late May bank holiday has been moved to 2nd June to give some workers a four-day weekend. We are already receiving a few questions from businesses asking if...
Why is Diversity & Inclusion in the Workplace Important?
Diversity & Inclusion is important in business. A workplace with a wide range of people from different backgrounds and cultures is crucial to achieving a successful, happy, and healthy environment in your business. No only will you gain variety of point of views...
How to Support LGBT+ Employees
It's officially Pride Month. And, while you may not think this hugely relevant to your business, you might be surprised. It's important you learn about ways you can support LGBT + employees. We would hope that your business is one of the many in the UK that fully...
How to Support Employees This Blue Monday
Blue Monday is on 16th January and many of us are thinking of ways to improve mental health in the workplace. You can understand why it might be a difficult time for some. Post-Christmas, the midst of winter, dark nights… it all builds a gloomy picture. In addition,...
The HR Booth – A review of 2021
It feels that 2021 and 2020 have merged into one! I don’t know where the time has gone. We started 2021 in another lockdown, which lasted longer than we hoped and whilst we’re ending 2021 with more restrictions, we’re all hopeful these don’t last long, and we get...
How to prevent unplanned Christmas absence?
It’s likely that you usually see a rise in unplanned absence over the Christmas period. Of course, it’s winter, so colds and other illnesses are more common and mental health can become worse. But what do you do if you suspect that people are pulling sickies to finish...
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