With home and now hybrid working part of the new reality, increased absence due to the endemic Covid-19 variants, and the threat of industrial action targeted at disrupting commuters, having a good, trustworthy, and intuitive leave management system has never been so important. Failure to implement such a plan can have unfortunate consequences on your…
Part-time workers enjoy the same benefits of statuary sick pay (SSP) as do full-time workers. Therefore, managing employee absence for part-time staff is essentially no different from standard absence management for full-time staff, but there are some provisos. For instance, you need to understand the difference between part-time workers, workers on zero-hours contracts, and agricultural…
They used to be called public holidays, though today we know them as Bank Holidays. They were, after all, created by a banker. While you might have already been aware of that, here are ten interesting Bank Holiday facts that might surprise you. 1. There used to be 33 public holidays Before 1834 there used…
They call it a “workation” – based on work plus vacation – but it’s not a word we much care for, so this is the penultimate time we’ll use it. In fact, we don’t need a word for it. Instead, we’ll call it working-on-holiday or, for short, WOH. It’s something more of us appear to…
When moving into an employee management role, everybody, and if not everybody then at least most of us, make mistakes, sometimes glaring mistakes that come back to haunt us. However, mistakes are there to learn from, and anyone who wants to become a good and possibly highly regarded people manager will strive to learn from…
