The HR Forum

Investors in People Accreditation

Hi Everyone!

Does anyone know how much IiP charge to register and apply for an accreditation?  We're not looking to do this now, but it's something on my radar for perhaps next year or the year after.

I know if I call them to ask then I'll end up on th

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Online HR Resources - XpertHR vs. CIPD HR-inform

Hi Everyone,

I'm interested to know if anyone has signed up and used CIPD's HR-inform? 

Last year we had a contract with XpertHR, which I really like but I've seen that CIPD have something similar and for about a quarter of the price!!  Worried it migh

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Working from home whilst sick

Hi Everyone,

I'd really appreciate if anyone can share their experience of how their companies deal with workers who are 'too sick' to come into the office yet feel well enough to work from home.Is it allowed ?Do you have a policy on this subject? Do

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Xpert HR

Hi there,

Can anyone let me know if they have signed up to Xpert HR for their services ie Benchmarking and if so how have you found it?

I just wonder if this is worth the monthly subscription.

Many thanks

Clare

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Apprenticeship Policies

Hello everyone,

I hope you are well.

I am currently looking ay apprenticeship policies and wondered whether any of you had a policy at your organisation. I am hoping to be able to distinguish between internal applicants and external applicants.

Any help

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Cancelling leave

Dear HR Colleagues

I am new to the world of HR and a question was put to me the other day to which I just don’t know the answer, so I am hoping someone can help.

Is a Manager allowed to cancel an employee’s leave after they have approved it? The person

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Popularity of Shared Parental Leave

Wondered the popularity of SPL elsewhere now its been in place for a few months. My organisation has approx 2500 employees and we've only had one request so far, it was fairly straight forward therefore intrigued to see how other organisations are co

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Annualised Hours - Good or Bad?

Hi Everyone,

We are currently looking to move to annualised hours. It is early days at the moment and I am trying to gather as much data as possible.

We are a manufacturing business, with approx 130 staff. At the moment we run one shift pattern, but ar

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Company policy or just common sense?

I have recently been tasked with reviewing and updating our company handbook and have been surprised by some of the policies that have creeped in over the years e.g. Hygiene code – We have a detailed policy of what employees are expected to do in ord

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HR Casework Research

Hi Everyone

I work for the Civil Service, as a HR Policy Consultant within Civil Service Employee Policy and am working with a group of government departments to develop our approach to how HR Casework is delivered across the civil service.

In partic

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Overtime vs TOIL

Evening overtime at an event during the week has been normally classed as part of the role and therefore not paid. However, if attendance is required at a major event over the weekend the employees are requesting overtime (This has also been paid in

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Help/Advice - Single Central Record - Education Based

Hi,

I am a HR Officer within Education for the Local Authority. We are due an OFSTED inspection at some point when we return after the summer break and I am looking at updating our single central record that details all employees past/present DBS info

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Maternity/paternity pay

Hi All,

We are conducting a review of our maternity and paternity policies, including looking at the enhanced leave and pay entitlements and would like to conduct a bench marking exercise.

I am hoping that you might be able to answer the following ques

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Time & Attendance Systems - Policy & Procedures

Hi Everyone,

In my current business, we are shortly going to be using a Time & Attendance (Clocking In) system and I was wondering if anyone out there has an example policy that they wouldn't mind sharing with me?

Many thanks

Carol

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Absense Management

Hi All,

I currently have a member of staff who has now been off for 6 weeks with work related stress.  They are due to return to work at the end of this current fit note therefore planned resume to work would effectively be the 1st of May.  

Can you pl

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Maternity & Paternity policy

Hi, I am just reviewing our maternity and paternity policies to bring them in line with all the recent changes and i wondered if anyone had any suggestions or templates of their poklicies they would be willing to share. We don't have enhanced benefit

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Have you heard enough yet about the General Election?

Hi everyone

Well it seems like a long time until May 7th, and you may already feel a bit jaded with all the claims and counter claims by the different parties.

I seem to have developed a morbid fascination with the General Election because I think it w

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Job Descriptions

Hi All

Interested to hear what you all include on job descriptions as I am just embarking on an update of all job descriptions.

We currently include

Job Title

Reports to

Mission Statement 

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Additional Duties

General Standards

M

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Is Talent Management obsolete?

Dear all - an interesting article on an increasingly obvious need to shift our minds as HRs and leaders, when thinking about "talent", including employee engagement and organizational culture as the key ingredients in building organizational success.

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Constructive unfair dismissal - every case turns on its own facts!

It seems to have been a week of dealing with on the spot resignations and mitigating potential Constructive Unfair Dismissal claims which as we know can be a 'grey' area of HR.

In a stroke of good timing I received the email below from Legal Manager

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