The HR Forum

What is a 'reasonable time'?

 

I've come across that term plenty of times, but never really had a need to look into in any great detail. Until now that is..

I'm in the middle of what has now progressed into a disciplinary meeting, having conducted an investigation process over t

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What health/medical benefits do you offer?

I'm about to head into several days of meeting with various reps, about health plans for staff.

There are loads of course, and I want to be sure that I'm looking at the best option - which will probably prove to be the most popular one out there.

It

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Increased Maternity pay package

Hi!

I want to introduce an increased maternity and paternity pay package at work as part of our retention measures, but when discussing this with a manager, he thought this may be seen as unfair for people who can't or won't start a family.

Also, will 

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Payroll HR or Finance???

Hi

Would just like to ask your opinion on the above.  At the College where I work payroll is currently under the umbrella of Finance but  SLT have decided to move this to HR.  Where does this resign in your organisations?  Does it work well where it i

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Business ethics, borrowing money and public declaration

I have just been reading this Guardian article about the Co-op bank and the possibility of further screening being added to its ethical policy, which, according to the article, currently covers the 5 areas of human rights, international development,

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Annualised Hours

Morning All,

Do any of you have any experiences of introducing annualised hours into a manufacturing environment when they are all used to doing set hours each week?

Any thoughts, views, advice much appreciated as always!

Thanks

Rachel

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Article - HR Manager vs HR Business Partner

Hi All,

I am in the process of writing an article for the Estonian HR Practitioner's magazine and thought of writing about HR professional's role in Estonia vs other European countries (esp. UK). Whilst in Estonia, HR Manager in essence is still a go

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Compassionate or not? Again!

Hi all,

I seem to be homing in on poor examples of HR Policy recently.  This one has left me absolutely fuming!

I know why. It's because it involves my own family.

My Cousin had been fighting cancer for the last 4 years and had reached the point where s

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Work Experience

Hi All

 I have 2 work experience students and they are scanning in all my files so I can upload to my HR system and they are doing a cracking job and its not something I have time to do. I suggested getting a little something to say thank you to which

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HR Data Stories

Do you use the data available within your organisations as effectively as possible?

Do you use any data within your organisations?

Data and most recently BIG data have been hot HR and L&D topics as systems can now generate a huge amount of workforc

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Rolling 12 month period

Hi All

Looking for guidance and what you all do with regards to company sick pay.We pay 15 days full pay and 15 half pay over a rolling 12 month period however the company sick pay is discretionary.

I have just had an employee ask what is the rolling

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Revamping an appraisal process

Hi. I am in the process of revamping my unit's appraisal process but before I put pen to paper, I would like to conduct an evaluation of the general consensus around our appraisal process.  I am limited somewhat in the sense that I work for a large o

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Brain Savvy HR : A Neuroscience Evidence Base - FREE E-BOOK

You can download this e-book for FREE until 22nd June by using the below link

Brain Savvy HR : A Neuroscience Evidence Base

About the book

Why does HR need to be "brain-savvy"?

As HR professionals we spend a lot of time carefully planning our proces

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Designing an Employee Handbook with a Difference

I am hoping for some ideas to assist with the creation of our new Staff Handbook!

We are looking to create a handbook with a difference and I need some inspiration; with how best to present the information; ie. digitally/glossy booklet and what conten

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Compassionate - or not?

I got a call from a former colleague this morning who wanted my thoughts on an HR matter that he and his wife are not happy about..

His wife has been tested and is the only match found for treatment for her sister as a bone marrow donor.  She has enqu

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Long term illness

Hi all,

I am re-visiting an old problem and would love to hear your thoughts on this. We have had a girl who's been off work now since October 2013. Her GP has written to us and told us she can't diagnose her, so we are unable to determine whether her

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Employee Referral / Recommend a Friend Schemes

Hi Everyone,

I have been tasked to refiew our employee referral scheme and to benchmark it against industry standards and other policies.  My company is a manufacturing company in Oxfordshire and we recruit a variety of roles such as operators, design

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Graduate Placement Schemes

Hi - we are looking to introduce a Graduate Placement Scheme within our company ( Pharmaceutical ) and initially concentrating on our Engineering team.

Starting from scratch on this one - so anyone with a Graduate Placement Scheme framework that they

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Gym Subsidies and/or Memberships for Employees

Hi all

We are looking to subsidise gym memberships for employees in the UK, that much we have agreed on, we have even agreed on how much we will subsidise the memberships by per month.

What we have been unable to agree on is how we approach this.

We hav

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Recruitment trends

Hi All,

I've been looking into ideas for what is up and coming in recruitment and I am hoping to get some insight from others. If anyone can help with what innovative ways they have heard about recruiting that would be great. I have been looking into

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