Exit surveys are usually less costly than interviews and the survey data is easier to objectively quantify. However, they typically achieve far lower response rates than exit interviews, which can obtain much richer data and a therapeutic experience for the departing employee, helping to end the employment relationship on a positive note.
Continue readingHow to Keep Your Best Employees
Recognition and rewards are probably the two most crucial aspects of staff retention. But there’s more to it than that. For instance, the CIPD found that employee turnover is often greater in the first six months of employment, either because the role was over-sold or through ineffective inductions.
Continue readingCan You Fire Employees Over Zoom?
Recently in the US, the boss of a mortgage firm terminated the employment of 900 members of staff over a video call, with little consideration for their wellbeing.
Continue readingForthcoming Employment Law Changes in 2022
The SSP Rebate Scheme Re-opened
The Coronavirus SSP Rebate Scheme was re-opened on 21 December 2021. The scheme covers up to two weeks’ SSP per employee costs for COVID-related absences. You are eligible for the scheme if, as of 30 November 2021:
Continue readingRight to Work, SSP Rebates and other Employment Law Updates
Since the 2020 coronavirus outbreak, a revised process for checking right to work needed to be adopted. This process remains in place today and will continue until 5 April 2022, unless the Government announces any further changes. If so, I will let you know as soon as possible.
Continue readingEmployers ‘Named and Shamed’ for Paying Below the Minimum Wage
The Government recently announced that 191 companies failed to pay £2.1 million to over 34,000 workers, owed for minimum wages. Those companies were all named and shamed under the Naming Scheme. This scheme was previously paused in 2018 to evaluate its effectiveness, resuming in February 2020.
Continue readingThe High Cost of Workplace Conflict
Workplace conflict can cost UK employers around £28.5 billion every year. This astounding figure comes from the latest ACAS report, Estimating the Costs of Workplace Conflict, which I have greatly summarised here.
Continue readingSeven Strategies for Successful Hybrid Working
With the successful rollout of the COVID vaccine programme, lockdown is gradually being lifted. With many organisations returning to the workplace, how many will continue with homeworking?
Continue readingLatest News on Statutory Rate Changes in April 2021
Many employers were concerned that the Government would not publish their April 2021 proposed statutory rates because of the immense focus on the pandemic. However, the rates were published in December to keep statutory rates in line with the consumer price index (CPI).
Continue readingGovernment has Released Proposals for New Immigration Law from January 2021
From January 2021, the government is implementing a standard set of rules applying to all non-UK workers, regardless of their nationality. Freedom of movement for EU and EEA nationals will end, although Irish citizens will continue to be free to travel to the UK under the Common Travel Area.
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