HR and Employment Law Experts
HR and Employment Law Experts for UK businesses
Not ugly enough!
Conventional wisdom says attractive people are more likely to be hired. But it’s a bit more complicated than that.
Two Israeli researchers send out CVs with pictures – rated according to attractiveness – for 2,500 different jobs.
Doing employees a favour doesn’t always work
I was approached by a company to help with a situation that was baffling them.
They had employed someone who wasn’t really as experienced as they would have liked, but they liked him and created a job for him.
However what they also did was pay him less than minimum wage. [Read more…]
So. You’re a small business with just a few employees, and managing them is one job you have to do yourself. And do it well.
Learn from the costly traps that other employers have fallen into, with this free guide on the pitfalls you simply must avoid. Remember these are the seven biggest mistakes that employers make which lead straight to a tribunal and cost them their personal cash – so beware!
• Recruit someone you find attractive (apparently most of us do!)
• Accept their word that they can do something – test them
• Reject them giving one of the protected characteristics as a reason (unlimited £££ tribunal claim)
Recruitment
It’s an accepted fact of business life – women are more expensive to employ than men. Few like it, most understand the reasons why, but others just insist it’s not true.
Never one to duck away from a challenging issue, Dan Panes (Better Business Extra) looks at how much truth there is in the myth. [Read more…]
