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Tackling the Gender Pay Gap  What is the Gender Pay Gap? The gender pay gap is the percentage difference between average hour ...

Employment Law Update | March 2021 Our expert HR consultant, Lauren Long, provides us with the Employment Law Update | March ...

Health and Safety Update | March 2021  Our Health and Safety Consultant, Colin Jones, provides us with a Health and Safety up ...

Risk Assessments needed for remote workers Many companies have now been working from home for over a year. It is both surpris ...

International Women's Day 2021   It’s International Women’s Day today, and at HPC it is a day we love to celebrate. We l ...

Budget 2021 announced by Chancellor Measures were announced yesterday by Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, in the Budget 2021. We have ...

Domestic Abuse: Supporting your workforce In this article, our HR Consultant, Lauren Long, covers Domestic Abuse and how you ...

Employment Law Update | February 2021 Our HR Consultant, Daniel Meyer-Lopez, provides us with the Employment Law Update | Feb ...

Rapid workplace Covid19 testing available to smaller employers More employers are now eligible to participate in the governme ...

The stages of the disciplinary process If you are having to take disciplinary action against one of your employees it is impo ...

'Fire and rehire' tactics have become increasingly popular during Covid19 The use of the controversial ‘fire and rehire’ stra ...

Supporting the Financial Wellbeing of your workforce Our HR Consultant, Lauren Long, discusses financial wellbeing and how em ...

Employment Law Update | January 2021   Our HR Consultant, Daniel Meyer-Lopez, provides us with the Employment Law Update ...

January blues? How to ease the return to work in January Are you struggling with the return to work after the festive period? ...

How Outsourced HR can work for your business You may decide that your business needs extra support and that you would benefit ...

£4.6 billion in new lockdown grants The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak has announced £4.6 billion of new lockdown grants. Businesses ...

COVID19 | Lockdown 3 The Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced to the nation yesterday that we will enter Lockdown 3 across ...

Employment Law Update | December 2020 Our HR Consultant, Daniel Meyer-Lopez, provides us with an employment law update for De ...

The Good Work Plan – are you compliant? Our HR Assistant, Jack Taylor, discusses the Good Work Plan and the changes that came ...

Employment Law Update | November 2020 Changes to Notice Pay & Furlough Until 1 December 2020, employers were allowed to c ...

Employee monitoring increases amongst remote workers Employee monitoring has become increasingly popular amongst UK employers ...

Furlough update and changes There will be some changes to the furlough scheme from 1 December 2020. You will no longer be abl ...

How to manage difficult conversations remotely An important part of people management is knowing how to effectively approach ...

Furlough scheme extended as response to new national lockdown Following the government’s announcement over the weekend, from ...

The key components of a well-managed redundancy process | By Lauren Long at HPC For business owners and HR professionals alik ...

Employment Law Update | October 2020 Just when you thought the pathway was clear…   In last month's employment law updat ...

Chancellor announces increased financial support for businesses and workers The Chancellor has announced yesterday increased ...

Boost motivation amongst your employees during the pandemic The pandemic has brought about a lack of motivation for some empl ...

We hosted peopleHUB’s most recent webinar 'Planning for your Post-Covid Future' on Wednesday via Zoom. Our MD, Victoria Brown ...

World Student Day  It is World Student Day on Thursday 15th October. At High Performance we truly see the value of hands-on l ...

Three-tiered system of local Covid Alert Levels introduced Following the announcement from the Prime Minister yesterday, a ne ...

Don’t be a statistic – avoid an unwanted Employment Tribunal claim when making redundancies MD of HPC, Victoria Brown, warns ...

CJRS Job Retention Bonus Further information relating to the CJRS Job Retention Bonus has been released. On Friday afternoon, ...

59% of Brits are willing to retrain for work  Research from the CV-Library has discovered that 59% of Brits have said that th ...

HPC Law – Furlough updates, kick start scheme and more   End of Furlough (Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme) They often s ...

Working from home - HR's Top Tips Here at High Performance Consultancy we offer support for all companies. We can support you ...

Rishi Sunak Announces Winter Economy Plan The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, announced yesterday his Winter Economy Plan to the Hou ...

Are offices allowed to remain open? The new guidance from the government on working from home has caused confusion amongst em ...

New COVID19 restrictions   Following Tuesday’s announcement from the Prime Minister there have been some new COVID19 res ...

Redundancies continue to skyrocket   The Institute for Employment Studies (IES) has warned that redundancies could be ri ...

Should businesses introduce a four day working week? The furlough scheme introduced by the government is due to end in Octobe ...

New funding available to help small and medium businesses recover The Minister for Regional Growth and Local Government has a ...

HPC Law Update – August 2020   Now that businesses have largely re-opened they should have shared their COVID risk asses ...

To Furlough or not to Furlough: that is the question The furlough/Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), introduced on Apri ...

Has the lockdown increased the chances of burnout? A recent survey found that almost 50% of managers believe that their emplo ...

14 day post-travel quarantine – Guidance for employers Earlier this month new regulations were put in place under which it is ...

Sex discrimination in the workplace Sex discrimination has continued to be an issue within society and this systematic sex di ...

HPC Update – July 2020   Kick start   The Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer recently announced a new ‘ki ...

What you need to know about the governments COVID19 Phase 2 plans.   As you may have seen, Chancellor, Rishi Sunak has o ...

Black Lives Matter – Now Is The Time To Make A Change.   On the 25th of May, there was another case of police brutality ...

  As usual, this month has been a whirlwind in terms of HR updates and changes. Our legal HR consultant, Daniel Meyer-Lo ...

How to have the “underperforming” chat with staff.   A realignment conversation is a diplomatic way of telling a staff m ...

COVID19 Discretionary Grant Fund for Small Businesses. Earlier last week the government announced an additional discretionary ...

COVID19 | Returning back to work HR FAQs   As businesses start to re-open, businesses will be faced with staffing issues ...

We’re here to help | Free Workplace Checklist and Action Plan  We appreciate this is a very difficult time for every business ...

We have received further guidance on the Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme (SSPRS)   The coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay R ...

Decrypting Boris's Updates | COVID19 Business Updates   I think like the rest of the nation, you are as confused as us w ...

HPC Law: COIVD19 Updates, CJRS & Financial Support There has been a number of updates and changes to keep track of this m ...

Extension of CJRS to end of June Yesterday evening, further Guidance for Employers was published by HMRC https://bit.ly/3ewlc ...

YOU still need to get ready for BREXIT   From February of this year, details of the UK’S post-Brexit immigration regime ...