HR guides
Our HR guides are an essential part of HR management that will help you to ensure consistency, legal compliance, efficiency, clarity, and professionalism.
Purpose
Following an HR guide can provide several benefits, including:
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Consistency: An HR guide can help to ensure that HR activities are conducted consistently across the organization. By providing a standardized set of policies and procedures, an HR guide can help to ensure that all employees are treated fairly and that decisions are made based on objective criteria.
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Legal Compliance: An HR guide can help to ensure that you comply with relevant laws, regulations, and company policies. By providing guidance on important HR topics such as discrimination, harassment, hiring, and termination, an HR guide can help you to avoid legal issues and reduce the risk of legal disputes.
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Efficiency: An HR guide can help to streamline HR processes and reduce administrative workload. By providing a clear and concise set of guidelines, an HR guide can help to save time and effort in data entry, reduce errors and inconsistencies, and ensure that all required information is collected in a uniform and organised manner.
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Clarity: An HR guide can help to provide clarity and transparency in HR activities. By providing clear guidance on important HR topics, an HR guide can help to ensure that employees understand their rights and responsibilities and reduce the likelihood of confusion or misunderstandings.
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Professionalism: An HR guide can help to maintain a professional tone and demeanor in HR communications. By using a standardized format and language, an HR guide can convey important information in a respectful and professional manner, even in difficult situations.
In summary, our HR guides are an essential part of HR management that will help you to ensure consistency, legal compliance, efficiency, clarity, and professionalism. By following these guides effectively, HR professionals can help to promote a positive and productive workplace culture and reduce the risk of legal disputes.
If you wish to dismiss an employee due to concerns with poor performance, use this timeline to help you understand the steps.
Our absence improvement guide offers insights and strategies for improving employee attendance and reducing absenteeism.
This guide looks at the value of mentoring an apprentice, the mentor role and responsibilities, and who might make a suitable mentor.
Our Guide to Avoiding Age Discrimination When Recruiting offers strategies and best practices to ensure fair and inclusive hiring processes, promoting diversity.
Our Guide to Calculating Bank Holiday Entitlement for Part-Time Employees provides a clear and comprehensive framework for determining bank holiday entitlements for employees who work part-time hours, ensuring fairness and compliance with employment law.
Our Guide to Chairing a Disciplinary Hearing ensures confident and fair hearings, helping managers navigate disciplinary processes effectively.
If you are considering conducting a disciplinary investigation, use this guide to help you carry it out it legally and effectively.
Creating and maintaining a meaningful Employee Value Proposition (EVP) can be a powerful tool to attract and retain top talent in your organisation.
The SMART in SMART goals stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely.
Our Guide to Dismissing an Employee for Some Other Substantial Reason (SOSR) offers step-by-step instructions, ensuring legal compliance and fairness in the dismissal process.
If you are considering dismissing an employee with less than two years continuous service, this guide will help you understand the risks and the process.
Our Guide to Effective HRIS Migration offers a step-by-step roadmap for seamlessly transitioning to a new HR Information System, ensuring data integrity and operational continuity.
This guide provides an overview of employee benefits and current trends, including the emerging popularity of flexible benefits which are designed to provide employees with individual choice.
The exit interview process is a valuable tool for making business improvements and retaining staff.
Our Guide to Experiential Onboarding for Managers offers a comprehensive approach, providing managers with strategies to create immersive and engaging onboarding experiences for new hires, fostering better integration and productivity.
Good standards of email communication maintains professionalism, efficiency and reduces risk.
Our Guide to Good Meeting Etiquette outlines best practices for effective and respectful meeting conduct, fostering a productive and collaborative work environment.
Our Guide to Good Office Etiquette provides essential insights, promoting a positive work environment by outlining respectful and professional behaviour expectations in the workplace.
This guide provides employers with a clear roadmap for handling employee grievances, promoting fairness, compliance, and a positive work environment.
If you have received a flexible working request, this model guide sets out an effective, legal framwork to follow when handling it, and determining your response.
Comprehensive guide for UK employers navigating TUPE transfers, harmonising terms & conditions post-transfer for fairness & compliance.
This guide looks at the legislation and best practises for home working, covering the statutory right of qualified workers to request to work from home and how line managers may effectively address the practical challenges that come with it.
Comprehensive guide for UK organisations transitioning to a 4-day week, providing step-by-step strategies, legal insights, and employee engagement tips.
Our Guide to Implementing Employee Share Schemes offers a step-by-step roadmap for organizations looking to establish and manage employee share schemes, ensuring compliance and effective employee participation.
Our Guide to Increasing an Employee Notice Period provides step-by-step instructions to navigate the process, ensuring legal compliance and smooth transitions.
This guide details the responsibilities for managers for the induction of new employees.
If managers are interviewing, this model guide will help them understand the law and good practice, including how to avoid bias and discriminatory questions.
Our Guide to Interviewing Standards offers comprehensive guidelines, ensuring consistency and fairness in candidate assessments while enhancing hiring quality.
This is a guide for an Apprentice to assist them in maintaining a portfolio of evidence, which is something that may be required within their Apprentieship framework.
Our Guide to managing an AWOL employee streamlines handling sudden absences, promoting operational continuity and employee accountability.
Our Guide to Managing an Employee Resignation offers step-by-step instructions for a smooth transition, ensuring professionalism and maintaining positive relationships.
Our Guide to Managing Conflict at Work through Mediation empowers teams to address workplace tensions effectively, fostering collaboration and harmony.
Use this guide to understand the law and good practice on employee grievances, including the effective management of grievances and the practicalities of dealing with grievances.
Our Guide to Managing Keeping in Touch (KIT) Days provides strategies for utilising KIT days during parental leave, benefiting employees and employers.
This guide provides guidance on managing employees on long-term sick leave, including understanding legal obligations, conducting effective communication, implementing reasonable adjustments, and exploring return-to-work options.
Our Guide to Managing Maternity Leave streamlines the complex process, ensuring compliance and smooth transitions for both employees and managers.
If you are managing a redundancy process, this model guide provides effective support for you meet your obligations and help employees understand the process.
This guide outlines the process and considerations involved in managing employee sabbaticals, including policy development, eligibility criteria, leave arrangements, and maintaining employee engagement during and after the sabbatical period.
Our Guide to Managing Shared Parental Leave offers practical insights for employers to navigate this process, promoting transparency and supporting employees.
This guide offers practical strategies for managing short-term employee sick leave, including policies and procedures, return-to-work interviews, monitoring and support mechanisms, and balancing compassionate leave with business needs.
Our Guide to Managing Subject Access Requests (SARs) assists organisations in handling data requests efficiently and compliantly, ensuring transparency and adherence to data protection regulations.
If you are managing a TUPE transfer in or out, this model guide details the essentials of TUPE transfers, applying the relevant legislation.
Our Guide to Navigating Employee Retirements aids seamless transitions, supporting both employees and management during crucial career shifts.
Our Guide to Off the Record or Protected Conversations provides comprehensive insights on handling confidential discussions, ensuring legal compliance and effective communication.
This is a complete guide for an appraiser for how to implement successful performance appraisals.
If you have employee performance concerns, this model guide will help you to agree improvement plans for them to achieve and maintain the standards expected.
If you have a new employee, this model guide to pre-employment checks will help you to check their integrity and background, and prevent illegal working.
Our Guide to Prime Posts in Organisations offers insights and strategies for identifying, evaluating, and optimising key leadership positions within an organisation to maximise effectiveness and growth.
This guide examines the legislation and practice guidelines for references.
The guide outlines the obligations and timeline for employers during redundancies, ensuring compliance and supporting a smooth transition.
Obtaining references from a successful job applicant's prior employers can be incredibly beneficial.
This guide provides guidance on conducting effective return to work (RTW) interviews after periods of absence, helping managers gather relevant information, address any concerns or barriers, and facilitate a smooth transition back to work.
Our Guide to Salary Sacrifice Benefits Selection offers comprehensive insights for employees to choose suitable benefits, optimising their compensation and financial planning.
Our Guide to Supporting an Alcoholic Employee offers strategies to approach, assist, and guide employees dealing with alcohol-related challenges, fostering a supportive workplace.
Our Guide to Tax Implications for Salary Sacrifice educates employees on the tax-related aspects of participating in a salary sacrifice program, helping them make informed decisions.
Use this guide to Tax Implications for Share Schemes to explain the tax implications of different share schemes for employees, including EMI, SAYE, and SIP.
This guide equips managers with essential knowledge and skills to effectively monitor and manage employee timekeeping, including establishing clear expectations, addressing lateness, managing unauthorised absences, and promoting accountability.
If you are responsible for transferring employees IN to your organisation, this TUPE transfer guide will provide you with a clear, legal, step-by-step process.
If you are responsible for transferring employees OUT of your organisation, this TUPE transfer guide will provide you with a clear, legal, step-by-step process.
Use this model template to help the new employer understand their key obligations, and the timescales involved.
Use this model template to help the old employer understand their key obligations, and the timescales involved.
Our Guide to Using Display Screen Equipment (DSE) at Work provides comprehensive instructions for safe and ergonomic utilisation, promoting employee wellbeing.
Our Guide to Withdrawing a Job Offer in the UK offers detailed instructions and legal considerations for employers when they need to retract a job offer, ensuring compliance and fairness in the process.
