Month: June 2020

Filling the GAP in HR Services: Settling down

Filling the GAP in HR Services: Settling down

As you might expect, we’re very busy at the moment.

Clearly, we’re heavily involved in several restructuring projects, but we’re also dealing with long-term sickness absences and a few – believe it or not – disciplinary processes.

One of our key roles in all people management issues is to ensure our clients follow all the correct processes, and if they do, they give themselves the very best chance of being protected.

We can’t stop an employee starting a tribunal, especially now they’re free.

But by making sure a fair and reasonable process is followed, we minimise the danger of an ambulance chaser solicitor seeing pound signs when they hear what has been going on.

In 95% of the processes we carry out, just following the correct process and guidelines is enough to make sure that there is no Early Conciliation or tribunal claim.

But for the other 5% we have an ace up our sleeve – settlement agreements.

What is a “settlement agreement”?

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Filling the GAP in HR services: Audible Subscription

Filling the GAP in HR services: Audible Subscription

I love listening to podcasts.

I’ve got my favourites – “No Such Thing As A Fish” and “The Infinite Monkey Cage” have been the pick of the bunch over the last year or so.

But when we went into lockdown, I rapidly “used up” all my podcasts, thanks a long daily dog walk and “quiet time” away from the other inhabitants of my house.

So I needed something new to listen to.  I’d heard good things about Audible, so I thought I’d give it a go.

As an Amazon Prime member, I was given a very generous offer of £3.99 for the first three months, before defaulting to the normal £7.99 monthly subscription.

And over the past 10 weeks, it’s been really valuable.

But now – as we exit lockdown – I’m finding less and less time to listen to the books.

So I figured that I’d cancel my subscription and head back to my podcasts.

Easier said than done, and I mean that in an admiring way.

Finding the button to cancel was surprisingly easy – they don’t hide it away like many other subscription services.

When I clicked it the genius began.

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