The HR Dilemma: When Discipline Brings on a Grievance

08 / 05 / 2015

One of the common occurrences experienced by human resources professionals is the outbreak of a grievance following the start of discipline proceedings. The ACAS Guide says that you can stop the discipline and deal with the grievance first (but you don’t have to – my words). If possible we prefer to run them separately but concurrently when the grievance is...

Healthy Employees

05 / 05 / 2015

Despite the pleasant advent of Princess Charlotte this weekend, like many other business owners I was only momentarily distracted and am far more concerned about the possible outcome of the election this week. It’s more than a bit worrying. After Labour’s Ed Balls (amongst other things) publicly sacked Haringey’s Sharon Shoesmith costing the tax payer almost £700,000 in compensation I...

What The Election Result Could Mean For Employers

01 / 05 / 2015

If we thought the 2010 election was uncertain, that was nothing compared with 2015. This year we’re not just working out whether the Tories will get a majority, we literally don’t know who will form the next government. A Labour majority looks pretty unlikely. A Conservative majority is possible as voters start to fear a Labour-SNP pact and the economy...

Social Media - Opportunity or Threat

29 / 04 / 2015

Did you hear about the Guardsman who ranted insults at the Princess he was supposed to be protecting, or the politician who described old people as ‘coffin dodgers’? What about the hospital workers who posted pictures of their ‘planking’ at work, or travel agent who threatened to smack the brown nosed cow in the face? These national news headlines sound...

Age is Just a Number

27 / 04 / 2015

Recently I read an article on young CEOs. We’re not talking 21 year old whizz kids here; the article was actually about CEOs under the age of 12! The youngest started at nine years old. By selling hot cocoa and cookies he hoped to get together enough money to buy a car for his mum so he did not have...