How Outsourced HR can work for your business You may decide that your business needs extra support and that you would benefit from outsourced HR. However, your in-house HR team could react negatively to this decision and be reluctant to embrace the additional resource. Therefore, it is important to know how to handle this situation… Continue reading →

WEBINAR: Absence, Childcare and Motivating your Employees Through These Difficult Times   We are on a mission to help as many businesses as possible during these difficult times. Join our HR experts, Victoria Brown and Daniel Meyer-Lopez, at our upcoming webinar as they offer advice on a number of challenges surrounding the new lockdown.  … Continue reading →

£4.6 billion in new lockdown grants The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak has announced £4.6 billion of new lockdown grants. Businesses in the retail, hospitality, and leisure sectors are to receive a one-off grant worth up to £9000.   Following the Prime Ministers’ Lockdown announcement last night, these businesses will remain closed until at least February half… Continue reading →

COVID19 | Lockdown 3 The Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced to the nation yesterday that we will enter Lockdown 3 across England. This was following the UK’s chief medical officer moving the nation into the highest possible Covid-19 alert level – Level 5.   The advice is to stay at home to help protect the… Continue reading →

Employment Law Update | December 2020 Our HR Consultant, Daniel Meyer-Lopez, provides us with an employment law update for December 2020.   Chancellor’s Budget The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, announced yesterday that the next Budget will take place on 3rd March 2021. This is when the Government is expected to reveal the plans of support that… Continue reading →

The Good Work Plan – are you compliant? Our HR Assistant, Jack Taylor, discusses the Good Work Plan and the changes that came in from April 2020.   The Good Work Plan has been introduced to ensure that employees are all treated fairly and equally by their employers. Numerous employment law reforms were set out… Continue reading →

WEBINAR: Employee Engagement Essentials We are on a mission to support as many businesses as possible to recover from the pandemic through their people. Join HR experts, Victoria Brown and Lauren Long, as they discuss how to boost employee engagement within your company.   We are now in the run up to the last peopleHUB… Continue reading →

Employment Law Update | November 2020 Changes to Notice Pay & Furlough Until 1 December 2020, employers were allowed to claim furlough during any period of notice whether statutory or contractual either where the employee had resigned or where the employee had been given notice by the employer for example after being made redundant.  … Continue reading →

Employee monitoring increases amongst remote workers Employee monitoring has become increasingly popular amongst UK employers since the beginning of the pandemic in March. One in five employers are now monitoring or are planning to monitor their employees who are working from home. This comes after an increase in remote working due to COVID19. Employers are… Continue reading →

DIB Webinar | Business Support and Advice Sign up to the upcoming Downtown in Business webinar ‘Business Support and Advice’, where our MD, Victoria Brown, will be joining the panel to offer expert HR advice.   Downtown in Business CEO Frank McKenna is also joined by Bill Addy, Liverpool BID Company, Keith Tully, Begbies Traynor… Continue reading →