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Time Allocation Survey

Hello everyone,

I'm currently undergoing my UIN Assignment for my CIPD and have used our case study company, City College, as my basis. I'm researching how allocation of teaching staff's time and their general mood may be linked to City…

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The most sweeping reforms in employment law in 20 years?

Many thanks to Daniel Barnett for his recent update on the below, where the text below is from

The Government has published a series of proposed changes to employment law following the Matthew Taylor Good Work…

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Absence Management - reasonable attendance target

What would you say was a reasonable sickness attendance target at a formal absence meeting.

Would 100 % attendance over the next 3 months be reasonable, if an employee has already triggered for an informal meeting and now for a formal…

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Not in a HR role but studying towards a CIPD?

Hello,

I am currently doing a CIPD level 3 in HR.

My role isn't really HR related so I am finding it a bit difficult and I wanted to know if anyone else is doing a CIPD and not actually in an HR role that can give some guidance or…

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Top 5 employment law cases 2018

As 2018 draws to a close XpertHR have prodiced this useful infographic in terms of the top 5 employment law cases of 2018.

No surprises really and common themes of gig economy, working time and unfair dimissial, with some GDPR thrown in for…

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Is veganism a philosophical belief?

Hi all

This was in the news yesterday, and is a case currently working its way through  Tribunbal.

It will be interesting to see whether the claimant is successful in arguing that veganism is a philopsophical belief and whether this…

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Reading and reference resources for CIPD programmes

Morning all

Thought I would post some bang up to date useful reading and reference materials for those of you who have recently started your programmes:

Please do share if you have found any references of interest for specific…

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Staff healthcheck

I work for a company who have staff based at HQ as well as a number of staff who work remotely all over the world. My Directors are wanting me to have informal chats with all staff members to find out about what motivates them, what their pain…

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Webinar

ive just enrolled onto the Level 5 HRM, I sadly missed the webinar which was launched yesterday(06/11/18), where can I find the recording please? 

 

Jason. 

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To budget or not to budget for that is the question

Evening all

So Phillip Hammaond delivered the longest budget speech in history yesterday, so what were the implications for HR?

Much is being made of the increase to the NLW from April 2019 as this represents a 5% increase which is…

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Supporting Employees

Hi Everyone, 

I just wanted some advice / tips on supporting employees when organizations go through times of financial hardship with the potential risk of redunancies. 

Any advice on how to boost team morale and ensure employees know…

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