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Disclaimer: All articles were correct at the time of going to press (dates shown at the bottom of articles), but information, especially that from older articles, should be verified before use.

 

2010

Presenteeism v Sickness Absence

Equality Act

Hot Topics

Employee Well-Being

Spotlight on HR Advantage Services

Questions of the Month - Sick Pay Special

Webinar: A Walk through the Disciplinary Procedure

Hot Topics

Workforce Planning – Needed now more than ever

The Coalition Government and Employers – what’s in store?

Grievances – How to Avoid Them

Questions of the Month

Invitation to HR Advantage’s Second Webinar: Absence Management and the IMpact of Well Notes

Spotlight on HR Advantage Products and Services: Health and Safety & HRA Extra

The Right Team – Luck or Judgment?

June Webinar Update! “Reward, Employment Costs and the new Economy”

Coming soon: HRAExtra

Worthwhile Appraisals Just Got Even Easier

World Cup Fever – Will it be Covered by a Fit Note?

Childcare Vouchers – Changes affecting higher earners from April 2011

Employees or Self Employed Workers? The Scales of Justice Tip Against WeightWatchers (UK)

Equality Act 2010 – Focus on Dual Discrimination and Disability Claims

Questions of the Month – a selection of some of the queries that have come our way in the last few weeks

Spotlight on HR Advantage Services: Payroll with HR Advantage

Special Offer: Discount on Recruitment Process Management

Spotlight on HR Advantage Products and Services: Recruitment Process Management

Hot Topics

Top 5 Tips to a Successful Appraisal

Social Networking Sites: Business Friend or Foe?

Free Webinar: “Reward, Employment Costs and the new Economy”

Change to Sick Notes

New Learning and Development Opportunities with HR Advantage

Reducing Employee Benefits – Do it Legally to Feel the Benefit

Employee Engagement

Hot Topics

FFFFreezing!

Shortage Occupation List – Immigration Employment Update

Hot Topics

Getting off to a flying start – key notes for successful induction

Spotlight on HR Advantage Products and Service

 

2009

Make Sure you have the Knowledge and Ability to Avoid Disability Discrimination

Queens Speech: Discrimination Legislation to be Condensed into one Equality Bill

Recruiting in 2010

Our Crystal Ball - Looking Forward to 2010

Hot Topics

Spotlight on HR Advantage Services and Solutions

Haines Watts - Complementary newswire on financial matters

Hot Topics

Hubble Bubble, Toil and Trouble...

Personal Accounts Pension Scheme – What Employers Need to Know

Can I work from home? What employers need to consider before answering this question

Spotlight on HR Advantage Services and Solutions

Is Social Networking good or bad for productivity? Discuss!

Recruitment in the recession

Staff Records - Part 2 - What and For How Long?

Bank Holidays: What Employers Need to Know

Accounting in troubled times

Hot Topics

Stress Management

Be Flexible for the Future of your Business – Focus on Total Payroll Costs not Just Headcount

The Martin & Audrey Wood Enterprise Awards 2009

Training in Tough Times

Hot Topics

Don’t wait until it breaks- performance improvement through conflict management (a mediator’s view)

Holiday Accrual During Long Term Sick Leave

‘Web 2.0 Technologies’ and ‘Generation Y Employees’

Agency Workers: Government Consults on New Rights

Hot Topics

The Results Are in – HR Advantage Client Survey

Hate Administration, Love Systems?

Hot Topics

Thinking Innovation

Staff Records – Part 1 – How and Why?

Mediation: Using mediation to build trust and enhance business performance

Hot Topics

New Year - New Holiday Entitlement

Update on Employment Law changes effective in 2009

Client Workshops - Spring 2009

Redundancy Consultations - A few words to the wise!

Government Grants for Leadership and Management Training

 

2008

Flexible Working Update

A Trainer's Christmas Tale...Food for Thought!

Pensions: A shock for many employers on the way

Sick Leave Q&A

News from HR Advantage

It's Party Time

Sick Notes to Get Better?

Business Continuity Planning

Special Offer for HR Advantage Clients - Better Marketing for Tough Times

Hot Topics

News from HR Advantage

Hot Topics

HR Advantage News

Legislation Update

Focus on Performance Appraisals

1,2,3,4,5 - The new immigration rules are going live!

Team Building - the HR Advantage way!

First Aid Regulations are Changing

HR Advantage News

Inflation is soaring - so are pay rises keeping up?

Complicated or what? Three new discrimination cases hit the headlines

The end of the road for child-care vouchers?

Hot Topics

If the going is getting tough...

Updated ACAS Code of Practice - Out Now for Consultation

Should Training be Recession Proof?

Hot Topics

Performance Management Pays!

Maternity Rights!

Do You Use Temporary Agency Workers?

HR Advantage News - Including Your Invitation to Our Free Workshops!

Dealing With Difficult People - Why Bother?

Important Changes to Discrimination Rules

Hot Topics

Tough Times Ahead?

Enhancing Recruitment and Retention

Hot Topics

Is there more than a written contract between employer and employee?

Hot Topics

New Employment Laws in 2008

Leading Peers

Changes to Dispute Resolution

 

2007

Need to catch up? - Our review of the main changes faced by employers this year

Hot Topics

Sobering Reading: The Corporate Manslaughter Act 2007 - A New Offence

Retention Issues

It's Party Time!

HR Advantage News

We don't want him working here anymore! - Part 2

Retirement Procedures Update

Crackdown on employers hiring illegal workers

Hot Topics ? Two Free Offers and a little news

Hot Topics

A new pair of trainers?

Minimum Wage Update - First Criminal Prosecution

Annual Leave Increase

The Facebook Revolution

'We Don't Want Him Working Here Again' - Third Party Pressure to Dismiss

Age Discrimination, LIFO and Redundancy - The First Test

The Smoking Ban - A New Start for Workplace Health?

At the Frontier of Discrimination

Absence levels and costs rise

HR Advantage News

The Back of a Fag Packet Guide to the New No Smoking Rules

One Day Sickies

Employee Involvement and Participation - benefits and potential pitfalls!

How many Public Holidays should a a part-time employee have?

FAQ: When does an Employer need to pay for Eye Tests and Glasses?

Managing a sensitive issue - lessons from a recent tribunal case

Mind The Road - When were your employees' cars last serviced?

TUPE - Information Exchange and Consultation

Practical Recruitment Help is at Hand

Government Welfare Reform Activity to Make Return-to-Work Easier for Both Employers and Employees

Hot Topics

'I'm pregnant....'

Hot Topics

Information and Consultation - Applying to you soon?

Practical Advice on Flexible Working

HR Checklist - Are you HR Compliant for 2007?

Hot Topics

Flexibility and Family Leave

What's Coming Up During 2007?

Romania and Bulgaria join the European Union...

Out with the old...Bring in the new!

 

2006

Heard about the latest changes to Maternity Leave?

No Smoking - Ban Date Set

Need to Catch Up? - Our review of the main changes faced by employers this year

Hot Topics

Dress Codes: A Discrimination Minefield?

Fire Safety

Recruitment and the Data Protection Act

Reward Systems - Making it work

As inflation rises .... What is the outlook for pay settlements?

Hot Topics

Appraisals - what's all the fuss about?

Grievances - not always obvious!

Stress...how is it affecting your business?

Corporate Manslaughter

Can you pay more for experience? Confusion after latest European ruling

HR Advantage News

'Employee of the Month': Rewarding Performance

Minimum Wage Update - Further Increases due October 2006

Racial Equality Code of Practice - How does it affect employers?

Hot News: New Fire Rules and Extended Maternity and Adoption Leave

Practical Psychometrics - Part 2

HR Advantage Offers

Age Discrimination Legislation - Here Now!

The HR Advantage Summer Sale

HR Advantage News

Fixed Term Contracts - The Change to Permanent

Concerned about 'Labour Turnover'?

HSE Publishes Revamped Guidance to Simplify Risk Assessments

Dress Codes in a Changing Climate

Proposed Increase to Minimum Holiday Entitlement

Golden Rules For Staff Recruitment And People Management Success

Mums At Work

World Cup Workers

A Salutary Tale: How Not To Interview!

Team Update: High Wycombe Office

Introducing Our New Website...And Our New HR Advantage Service Packages

Practical Psychometrics

Age Discrimination - It's Not All About Redundancy!

Rolled-Up Holiday Pay Banned

The Benefits of a 'Work-Life Balance'

IiP - Investing in Your People

Trouble with TUPE?

HR Advantage News

Coping With Age

Age Discrimination - The Transition Rules

Work Related Driving

New Fire Safety Legislation

Want To Stay Legal In Employing People?

Prepared For TUPE?

What Effects Will The New Offence Of Corporate Manslaughter Have On Work Related Driving?

Exit Interviews - How Useful Are They Really?

Race Equality

Increased Rates

HRA Health - Health And Safety At Your Fingertips

Do You Need To Plan For Bird Flu?

Equal Pay Update - It Is Now Even Easier To Get It Wrong!

Age Discrimination Countdown

Stress In The Workplace

Job Descriptions - Why Have Them?

Increase Of Limits

Employer's Recap Of 2005

New Year Employment Update - What Are The Key Things You Need To Know In 2006?

New Year Employment Update - continued...

Retaining Your Graduates

Update On The Health And Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981

Workplace Transport

 

2005

The Key To A Good Start

Pensions Top The Agenda

Work Related Injuries And Ill Health: 2004-2005

Are You An Environmentally Friendly Organisation?

Coming Up In April 2006?

The HR Advantage Team

The End Of The Work Christmas Party?!

Safe Systems Are Vital

Standing At Work - A Serious Issue

'Whistleblowing' - An Employer's Summary

Innovation, Creativity And Enterprise At Work

National Minimum Wage Exceeds £5.00 per hour

Tribunal Update: Flexible Working

The Heathrow Syndrome - Are You Vulnerable?

Preparing for Pending Pension Changes

The Job Interview - The Best Method?

The End of Nine-to-Five?

The Trial & Tribulation of Redundancy

Draft Age Discrimination Legislation Published

A White Lie in a CV - Where's the Harm in That?

Discrimination - The Burden of Proof

Recent Employment Tribunal Decisions

The HR Advantage Team Grows

Transfer of Undertakings (TUPE) - Greater Clarity on the Horizon

Using Coaching to Stand out from the Crowd

The New Statutory Dismissal and Grievance Procedures - the Effect??

Working Time Opt Out - Latest News

HR Advantage on the Move

Update: Religious Discrimination and Unfair Dismissal

HR Advantage on the Move

Where do Employers Stand with Fixed Term Contracts?

Preparations for the Year End

Long Term Sick Leave - Important New Decision

Working Time Directive - New Rules?

Succession Planning: Planning for Success

Update: Latest Training and Development News

Data Protection - Workers Health Information

Childcare Vouchers

Information and Consultation

Childcare Vouchers - Tax and Cost Savings

Employment References - What You Need to Know

Total Reward - Really Rewarding?

Equal Pay Incentive?

Company Suggestion Schemes: To Motivate or Not to Motivate?

People Reporting - Stating the Importance of HR

Car Allowances - The Company Car Alternative?

Looking Ahead - Family Friendly Proposals

24 Hour Licensing - Are You Ready For It?

Use of Sub Contractors - The Safe Option?

Year End Calendar Dates

Looking Forward to 2005?

Information and Consultation Directive

The Issue of Age and Retirement

Pay News for 2004 - 2005

Gifts and Bribes...

 

2004

What Changed in 2004?

The Chancellor and Maternity Leave

Smoking - Out In The Cold

Christmas For All?

Absence: How Do You Tackle Yours?

Business Leader Grants For Senior Management Training

Investors In People: Reviewed and Updated

 

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