Lloyds Bank recently announced plans to tie bonuses for senior staff to their attendance. According to reports, around 60,000 of the bank’s senior Employees may see bonuses cut if they do not attend the office at least two days per week. It’s not just Lloyds though. The news has been busy with reports of large
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Employers Concerned Over Raising Wage Costs
As announced by the UK Government in the Autumn Budget 2024, the National Living Wage (NLW) and National Minimum Wage (NMW) will increase from April 2025. The National Living Wage (workers aged 21+) is set to increase by 6.7%, from £11.44 to £12.21. The National Minimum Wage (18-20 year olds) will increase by 16.3%, from
Click here to read moreEmployer, Heal Thyself: Managing Employer Stress
As an Employer, you know that you are responsible for the health, safety and well-being of your Employees. However, when you are busy running day-to-day operations and ensuring your Employees have all they need to be effective, it can be easy to forget about, and even neglect your own well-being. Excessive pressures and demands in
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‘Flexible Working’ is the term that refers to working patterns, arrangements, or hours. Examples include part-time, flexi-time, compressed hours, adjusted start and finish times, and alternative work locations such as working from home. Flexible working has historically been of particular benefit to Employees with caring responsibilities outside of work, or health issues. The UK Government
Click here to read moreSunday Scaries, Monday Malaise
When we were schoolchildren, many of us found ourselves unable to fully enjoy and relax on our Sunday evenings, as we dreaded the school week looming on Monday morning. We dreaded the work, the interactions with people we didn’t feel that close to, overbearing teachers, and panic over how we’d get our assignments finished by
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A new report by the charity, Just Like Us, which surveyed 3695 people aged 18 to 25, found that a quarter of LGBT+ young adults went back into the closet when they started work. Reasons cited included feeling psychologically unsafe and the fear of mistreatment, with 19% of LGBT+ young adults stating they had experienced
Click here to read moreThe Proposed Redefinition of ‘Sex’ in the Equality Act 2010
The UK Government is proposing a change to the Equality Act 2010, for England, Scotland and Wales, which would redefine the term ‘sex’ as referring to a person’s ‘biological sex’, or in other words, their sex at birth. This move would make it legal for transgender people to be banned from single-sex spaces and events,
Click here to read moreSocial Media at Work – Getting the Balance Right
While social media is not especially new anymore (its first forms appearing in 1997), its sophistication, popularity and reach has grown at an astonishing rate over the years. We’ve moved from sharing our worlds through simple textual status updates, to showing it in all its glory via snappy, short videos. Many Employers still have a
Click here to read moreSupporting Employees During Celebrations of Ramadan
March sees the arrival of the holy month of Ramadan, the commemoration of Muhammad’s first revelation and lasts between 29 and 30 days depending on the sighting of one crescent moon to the next. Commencing on Wednesday 22nd March, through to Friday 21st April, Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and is
Click here to read moreManaging Menopause – An Employers Guide
Menopause, including the years leading up to (peri-menopause) and the years after (post- menopause), has always been an issue for many women, with some suffering symptoms more than others, and potentially not fully understanding why or how to successfully manage them. Previous generations didn’t talk much about the menopause and the issues it often brought
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