360 Appraisals

Hi there,

I have been asked by my manager to provide some info (urgentl) regarding 360 appraisals.

Does anyone have any forms/Procedures/Policies that they would be willing to share with me?

Many thanks in advance.

Kate

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UIN Level 5 Survey - please help!

Hi everyone,

I am currently completing my Level 5 Online HRM Using Information in HR module. Would it be possible to complete a short survey on the City College scenario for my primary research? You'll need to pretend you are a teacher at a…

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Safeguarding from contagion at work

A good friend of mine works with sick children. She very frequently has to have time off work due to falling ill from viruses. We are talking maybe 1 week in 8 off work. All her friends and family have a much more 'steady' level of health so the…

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Background Checks/References

Morning

Reaching out to the community for some assistance...

I work for a financial services company and we are looking to change our supplier for background checks (criminal record, credit history, work references, driving licence…

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On Call Time

Hi everyone,

I've just read this from People Management, looks like it was posted today

Does being on-call count as ‘working time’…

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Persistent Body Odour

Hi All,

Have an interesting one here....

We have an individual who has quite persistent body odour.  He's been with us for nearly a year and the Manager has spoken to him about it quite a few times - he admits he doesnt notice it…

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Reward Programmes

Hi there

I've been asked to look at implementing a recognition and reward programme. We are a charity so don't have a massive budget but would be interested to hear some low cost ideas for rewarding and recognising employees without being…

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Extra holiday for not taking sick days

Someone where I work has suggested we give an extra days holiday to people who don’t take time off sick for that year.

Personally I thing this is a terrible idea but is there a legal basis that I can use to object (ie…

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Discrimination within recruitment

Last week I applied for a job via a Recruiter. They rang me on Tuesday and we had a discussion about the role and my experience, I also mentioned my personal situation that I had taken time out of work to care for my daughter, I then received a…

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EAT decision on shared parental pay - hot off the press

So this is a topic that often comes up in DER and when discussing family friendly policies.

The EAT's most recent decision is below, courtesy of Practical Employment Law (PLC):

Capita Customer Management Ltd v Ali and another…

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Working from home

Good morning all,

We are getting increasing numbers of staff wishing to 'work from home' for reasons varying from lack of child care to building works being undertaken at the home.

In the past we have allowed staff to work from home…

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GDPR - new guidance from the ICO on legitimtate interest

For those of you who are still deep in GDPR, the ICO issued some guidance last week on one of the lawful reasons for processing data legitimate interest.

 

As you may already know, GDPR will require that organisations can demonstrate…

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