The HR Forum

Proof of Medical Appointments

Good morning everyone

I have just been asked by one of our Line Managers where we stand if we request proof of attendance at a medical appointment and we don't get it.  We do not pay our staff for attendance at medical appointments unless under certai

Help! Redundancy notice period - does this start before or after a 4 week trial?

Good morning all, 

We are currently moving offices and I am putting everyone through a consultation period. 

I have had a question from one employee who is required to do 11 weeks notice. 

They have asked that if they decide to do a 4 week trial, would

Increases to self-certification period?

Hi all

I heard this on  the news, being a cynical HR bod I can't see how employees self-certing for 14 days is a positive move although I do appreciate it takes up GP time to provide these.

Is there a middle ground somewhere?

What impact would this have

AWOL Policy

Hi All,

I am currently working on an AWOL policy in my company and wondered if anyone had any examples of these that you share with me?

Thanks

Employee Reference

Hello,Was wondering if someone can help, I have been asked a question about employee reference. Can an employee ask for an open reference to give to an employer for an interview as they do not trust the company to give a fair reference if they follow

HR Administrator and Recruitment Administrator

Hi all, 

My colleague is recruiting for these two roles:

HR Administrator

Recruitment Administrator

Long Service Awards & Tax

I'm posting this on behalf of Rachel Trowsdale:

Can anyone advise me on the tax implications of long service awards? Last year we introduced long service awards in the form of high street vouchers (£500 for 10 years, £1000 for 20 and £1500 for 25) an

Leaver Gone AWOL

Afternoon All,

I am looking for some advice on how to tackle the situation in hand.

I have an employee due to leave on May 23rd. They have been on holiday this past week and were due to start back in work yesterday up until 23rd. The person is question

Calculating holiday pay

Hello All,

When calculating holiday allowance, do you include overtime?

Thanks

Louise

Train travel vs Car travel

We currently have an expenses policy whereby anybody in receipt of car allowance cannot claim for train travel except when travelling into London.  This is causing some issues because after working out the costs and downtime there is hardly any diffe

Booking holidays - how much notice is fair?

Hi everyone,

I'd really appreciate some help with this please - I'm a newish HR manager & am putting some policies into place - 

With 24 FTE we're small, so any employee absence can make an impact on our project delivery times & therefore need to facto

Mobility Clause

Hello, 

Does anyone have a mobility clause in their contract of employment that they could share? I need to add one to our contracts and would like some help with the wording!

Many thanks,

Milly 

CIPD Level 5 - HELP!

Intellectual Property - authorisation to undertake other work

Hi everyone

The company where I work includes an intellectual property clause in all contracts as standard. We have recently received a request from a member of staff to have the clause removed from the contract as he wishes to undertake a specific pi

HR Shared Service Centre - setting up

Hi all,

We are creating an HR Shared Service Centre to deliver a consistent approach to HR process administration & management and I am keen to find out some best practices and pitfalls. The aim is to have one source of management information, efficie

Deductions from Salary for Software Licences

Hi Everyone,

I've had a request from our CEO and not entirely sure how to go about it...

Basically, when someone new joins us they have to be set up with a licence on the software that we use. The software provider charge £500 for this (£250 to remove

Making Charitable Donations to Employees- For or Against?

Hi All,

I've just been asked by our MD what the best approach is to making a charitable donation to an employee.

An employee of ours is going to be sleeping rough for the night in our city centre to raise awareness for YMCA. She is currently just above

Approaches to Sabbatical Requests

Just wondered if I could pick your brains.

I have received a sabbatical leave request from the head of a department - he would like 4 weeks unpaid leave from the end June 2016.

We do not have a career break policy.

He has explained that he has a plan in

Simple Relocation Policy

Does anyone have a template for a simple relocation policy?

Writing a reference for an employee that was dismissed

Hello, 

I'm wondering if people can help. 

I write the references for our company for any staff that have left the business and have requested one. 

This week I came across a request for an employee that was dismissed for poor performance.

One of the que