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How Companies Can Deal With “Sickies”

It is fair to say that most employees have pulled a “sickie” at one point or another during their working lives. These contrived excuses are occupational folklore as they generally involve wannabee absentees putting in Oscar worthy performances down the phone while they relay convoluted stories of malady and woe with some nicely ... Continue reading

Employment contracts in the spotlight

Taking on new members of staff can be exciting. Perhaps you’re just starting out with your company, or maybe you’re going through a period of expansion.However, before you get carried away, it’s important to think through all the implications associated with employing new people. There are a series of legal issues to deal with a ... Continue reading

Dealing with worker grievances

One of the most challenging aspects of running a company is personnel management. By their very nature, people are complex entities and making sure they are happy and productive in their roles isn’t always easy.Complicating matters further, there is a raft of employment legislation in place these days designed to protect people ... Continue reading

Making the recruitment process easier

Your personnel may well be your most valuable resource. In order to achieve long-lasting success in the world of enterprise, it’s vital that you have staff with the necessary skill, insight and dedication. Given the tough economic conditions affecting the UK and many other countries at present, it’s more important than ever to h ... Continue reading

Finding the Perfect Job Application Form Template for Your Business

Finding the perfect job application form template is essential for any business that plans on offering positions in an effort to expand its workforce. Luckily, you can join up with a company such as Simply-Docs and gain access to a whole library of document templates to use, saving you both time and money. For a small fee, you c ... Continue reading

5 Productivity Tips for the Self Employed

Working from home may be the Holy Grail of working life for many, but those who live it as a reality can profess to the curses of procrastination, mixing business with pleasure (i.e. washing the dishes whilst trying to make a work phone call!) and never quite feeling like you’re not in work mode.Developing an effective working e ... Continue reading

Why it is Vital to Have Well Designed Job Application Forms

Like most other employers these days, you may well rely on employment application forms to gather consistent information about prospective employees. Indeed, job application forms (unlike CVs and cover letters) enable you to receive information in a truly uniform format and compare applicant credentials efficiently and impartial ... Continue reading

The Importance of Having Suitably Comprehensive Employment Contracts

If you run your own small business then you will (hopefully) know that you are obliged to provide all of your employees with a ‘statement of terms’ (i.e. a contract) within two months of their start date. Like many other small business owners however, you may not have an overly extensive knowledge of how to go about sorting cont ... Continue reading

How to Tackle Workplace Absenteeism

In 2011, a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers found that 1 in 3 workers in the UK had admitted to taking a so-called ‘sickie’.For anyone who doesn’t know (or pleads ignorance), a ‘sickie’ is a fabricated excuse which an employee makes for not going into work. In general, these excuses involve reeling off a line of symptoms whilst ... Continue reading

How to Hire the Perfect Staff

It will be the case that many businesses will be looking to expand their operations in 2013. This will inevitably involve the hiring of extra staff and employees to help deal with the extra demand in workload. Unfortunately, this means that you will have to go through the potentially highly stressful process of placing a job adv ... Continue reading

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