A wellbeing strategy details how you will help to support employees to lead healthy and fulfilling lives inside and outside of work. Having a strategy rather than an ad hoc approach will ensure your wellbeing initiatives are cohesive and effectively support the needs of your employees.

If you’re looking to expand your workforce and keen to offer job and work experience opportunities to the next generation of workforce, then the Kickstart Scheme may be the right thing to consider for you and your business.

With so much change happening in the world at the moment, it’s not always easy to keep up with employment law changes. To make things a little easier, we’ve collated 5 employment law changes to look out for in April 2021.

The next Bath HR Network virtual coffee morning is at 10am on Wednesday 21st April and we’re delighted to welcome Pip Galland, Employment and HR Solicitor at Burges Salmon LLP as our guest speaker.

Furlough presents additional complication by where employers will need to ensure that they pay their staff correctly for a bank holiday. Here is some top tips on how to manage bank holidays in your employees contracts and for staff on Furlough.

The extension of the Government’s apprenticeship hiring incentives announced by the Chancellor in his recent Budget have the potential to be transformational for young people and employers alike.

Rathbone HR is delighted to be delivering a webinar on Managing Remote Teams on 30th March.

I will be discussing the possible impacts of remote working on the physical and mental health and engagement of your teams. Attendees will learn key strategies to promote engagement within remote teams to help your business not only survive but also thrive. Click the link below to book your place! Managing Staff Remotely Registration, Tue 30 Mar 2021 at 10:00 | Eventbrite

It’s believed that half of the UK’s office workers would be willing to leave their jobs if employers do not allow them to work in their preferred locations after lockdown, according to new research.

With international women’s day nearing, it’s been both interesting and alarming to hear about the impact that the coronavirus pandemic has had on so many women in the workplace.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies are now onboarding remote new hires completely online. We’ve included some top tips here on how to adjust your processes and put the employee experience at the centre for successful virtual onboarding.

From April 2021 the rules for engaging individuals through personal service companies are changing.

A recent study has shown that more than half of UK employers who use contractors are still not yet quite prepared for the changes to private sector off-payroll rules, which are due to come into force this April.

At a time when we find ourselves in a third national lockdown that includes the closure of primary and secondary schools (with the exception of vulnerable students and the children of key workers), it’s vital that employers review how the current situation has left their parent employees juggling work, childcare and homeschooling.

The EU transition period is ending on 31st December 2020 and there are implications for organisations that employ EU citizens.

The Government has announced that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (furlough) will be extended until the end of April 2021.

How to keep a team engaged and motivated while working apart has been a significant challenge for employers in 2020.

We all realise that there are a lot of changes hitting us from many different directions at present. Getting people onboard and committing to change and a common goal can be tricky, despite growing knowledge of the latest leadership concepts.

Traditionally, employees have been seen as an overhead rather than appreciated as the most important source of revenue within a business. By now, most of us realise that employees are the ones with first-hand experience of your company’s structures, systems, products and services. Not only can they tell what works and what doesn’t, they also have the power to accelerate the changes by engaging themselves and others into the process.

In spite of all its technology, a business is often only as good as its people.

Employers and employees across the UK are being provided with additional financial support as part of the government’s plan for the next phase of its response to the coronavirus outbreak, the Prime Minister announced on Saturday, 31st October, the same day that the second national lockdown across England was announced.