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Changing Contract Terms & Conditions In this article, our Senior HR Advisor, Claire McGuinness, offers advice to employer ...

The Top 10 Communication Skills In this article, our Senior HR advisor, Dan Williams, discusses the top 10 communication ...

Covid-19 Vaccinationto be Mandatory for NHS staff Frontline NHS staff in England will be required to receive the covid-19 vac ...

Pronouns: Getting it Right In this article, our Senior HR advisor, Daniel Williams, discusses how employers should handl ...

Autumn Budget 2021 The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the contents of the 2021 autumn budget in the House of Commons o ...

Work-Related Illness (WRI)│Health and Safety In this article, our H & S Consultant, Colin Jones, discusses Work-Related I ...

Employment Law Update | October 2021 James Mallon, our HR Business Partner, provides us with an Employment Law Update for Oct ...

The European Commission has announced its intentions to review and update EU rules on workplace safety in light of the covid- ...

Employees are becoming increasingly fearful of discussing mental health in the workplace. This is despite investment into men ...

11 Reasons to Hire a (Under) Graduate Student In this article, our Senior HR advisor, Daniel Williams, discusses why employer ...

Mental Health First Aid│Health and Safety In this article, our H & S Consultant, Colin Jones, discusses Mental health fir ...

Employment Law Update │September 2021   James Mallon, our HR Business Partner, provides an employment law update for Sep ...

CIPD push for ethnicity pay gap reports to become compulsory   An analysis has found that only 13 of the FTSE 100 curren ...

National Insurance Increase Could Hurt Recruitment Businesses have expressed concern about the government’s plan to increase ...

Scotland Set To Trial 4 Day Working Week   The Scottish government has announced their intention to reduce working time ...

A Guide for Employers: Data Subject Access Requests In this article, our Senior HR Consultant, Daniel Williams, discusses how ...

Employment Law Update | August 2021  James Mallon, our HR Business Partner, provides us with an Employment Law Update for Aug ...

New Guidance for Self-Isolation   Recently the government has updated their guidance to reflect the new rules announced ...

Business disruption when transitioning to a post-Covid strategy   As employers move to a post-Covid world, one of the ma ...

Managing Workplace Temperature In this article, our H & S Consultant, Colin Jones, discusses how to manage workplace temp ...

How can you support working parents during the summer holidays? For kids, six weeks off school is a dream but for working par ...

Risk Assessments - Common Mistakes Risk assessments are crucial for employers to manage the health and safety within their bu ...

Imposter Syndrome - Fact or fiction? Our Senior HR Advisor, Daniel Williams, discusses imposter syndrome in the article below ...

Employment Law Update | July 2021 James Mallon, our HR Business Partner, provides us with an Employment Law Update for July 2 ...

Workplace Fatalities | Health and Safety In this article, our H & S Consultant, Colin Jones, discusses workplace fataliti ...

Employment Law Update | June 2021 James Mallon, our HR Business Partner, provides an Employment Law Update | June 2021. &nbsp ...

Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders | Health and Safety In this article, our H & S Consultant, Colin Jones, discusses ...

A Guide for Employers: Employees Refusing to Return to Work In this article, our Senior HR Advisor, Claire McGuinness, discus ...

Job optimism soars to the highest level since February 2013   Job optimism has soared to the highest level since the beg ...

Employment Law Update | May 2021 James Mallon, our HR Business Partner, provides us with an Employment Law Update for May 202 ...

Management of Health and Safety at Work In this article our H & S Consultant, Colin Jones, covers the importance of Healt ...

Long working hours leading to thousands of deaths   Long working hours are leading to thousands of deaths due to heart d ...

Maternal Mental Health Week 2021 This week is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week. Perinatal mental health refers to a woma ...

Remembering John Brady | Claire House Pay for a Day  Today, everyone at High Performance Consultancy and Claire House is thin ...

Recruitment – Making sure you find the right candidate Recruitment can be tricky at the best of times and now with most of th ...

Employment Law Update | April 2021 James Mallon, our HR Business Partner, provides us with an Employment Law Update for April ...

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

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 ...