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This article has been updated to reflect current guidance on social distancing and putting workers on ‘furlough’. This article gives guidance for employers on how to deal with coronavirus issues…

We took part in a great discussion at the Penny Hill Park Hotel in Bagshot this morning. We talked about what contingency plans small businesses should be making for Brexit…

Are you a better than average driver? Do you have above-average intelligence? Do you do an above-average job at work? Go on, be honest. Don’t be humble. If you wanted…

Do you know the difference between a gender pay gap and a pay equality issue? Most people don’t. In 2018, many articles on gender pay gap reporting appeared in the…

Interviewing is still one of the most common methods that employers use to evaluate candidates. It’s their crucial step in selecting the right person for the role. But how effective…

Many businesses are using self-employed people to provide work or services, instead of having them on the payroll. By ‘self-employed‘, we mean self-employed in the eyes of HMRC. You pay…

There is an old saying that prevention is better than cure. Yes, it’s trite – but it’s also broadly true. Especially when it comes to employee relations. If you’re busy…

This article is a guide to GDPR for small and medium sized businesses (SME’s). This means businesses with less than 250 employees. What is GDPR? The General Data Protection Regulation…

Everybody falls ill from time to time. But when someone seems to be calling in sick too frequently, it can catch your attention. Are they really sick? Or are they…

Want to avoid an employee raising a grievance against you? We’ve used our experience investigating them to put together our top five tips for managers who want to prevent a…