A summary of the HR and H&S updates issued in June 2024. HR Updates Amber alerts £4.6 million disability discrimination payout for Council Employer wins in Court of Appeal disability discrimination case Gender critical beliefs in the workplace

Can you believe it’s summer already? Scottish and Northern Irish schools are on the verge of breaking up, and English schools will do the same in a matter of weeks. If your staff team includes parents with school-aged children, then the end of term will almost certainly impact on your practice in one way or…

We had rain, a bit more rain, and then some more rain in May! As always, we tried to brighten things up for you with lots of new blogs, HUB updates and we shared our commitment to development. Best of our blogs Our commitment to development – Practice Index HUB – We don’t know what is…

For most of us in practice, managing and leading change processes is a regular activity. This gets particularly challenging when changes impact on staff roles, responsibilities, hours, work environment, or even contractual entitlements. In May’s HR Clinic, Robyn Clark (aka JacksonR) and Susi O’Brien (HR Help advisor) answered all your questions on all aspects of…

A summary of the HR and H&S updates issued in May 2024. HR Updates Amber alerts Fire and rehire: New Code of Conduct published Equality Act 2010 amendment widens scope of indirect discrimination claims Green alerts Seeking to take parental leave

Performance management is what we usually call it when organisations take measures to deal with employee capability issues. By capability issues, I mean an employee’s (or manager’s) failure to perform all aspects of their job satisfactorily. This could mean working too slowly, making errors, misjudgements, having insufficient skill, not knowing essential stuff… you get the…

I’ve led many training sessions on giving negative feedback to employees (or are we supposed to call it constructive feedback?), and I usually start by asking who on the course already feels confident about doing this. Not a single person has ever raised their hand. In truth, I wouldn’t raise mine either because whilst I…