Filling The Gap In HR Services: Best Christmas Present-Filling The Gap In HR Services: Best Christmas Present. As I have grown older and financially independent able to buy my own gadgets, the joy of getting Christmas presents is now a little bit muted. Maybe you feel the same? Giving gifts is still immensely enjoyable, but most of the things I want I am ... Read more
Filling The GAP In HR Services: Trawling Through Images-We had an interesting one this week. An ex-employee at one of our clients has she decided she wants her image to be removed from all company social media, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and the websites, quoting GDPR and the “right to be forgotten” at them. Our client was not best pleased, as there are ... Read more
Filling the GAP in HR services: How Not To Get A Dismissal Claim-There are times in life where less is more. For example, after you’ve said something nice like “I really enjoy your sense of humour” it’s probably best not to follow it with “…I don’t care what anyone else says about you!”. The same goes for unpleasant conversations like firing an employee for poor performance. One ... Read more
Filling The GAP In HR Services: Changing Salary Willy Nilly……-Filling the GAP in HR services: Changing salary willy nilly…… I was speaking to a golf club chairman last week, and we got onto the subject of contracts; specifically the contract for the club manager. Turns out that the chairman didn’t want to put a salary in the contract, and that “back in the day”, ... Read more
Filling the GAP in HR services: Let them say no-Filling the GAP in HR services: Let them say no I don’t have a sales or marketing manager here at Gap HR. I do it all myself, and there’s a simple reason why: I love it. But this summer, a vital part of marketing (the follow up) went a bit pear-shaped. We moved office and the ... Read more
Filling The GAP In HR Services: Celebration Time-Filling The GAP In HR Services: Celebration Time We moved offices back in the summer, and now we’ve “sorted things out”, we want to throw an office warming! On Friday 6th December, 5pm – 8pm, there is a Christmas Late Night Opening evening in Goring on Thames, and our office is right in the centre, ... Read more
Filling the GAP in HR services: Shocked, pleased, embarrassed-Filling the GAP in HR services: Shocked, pleased, embarrassed I was in London recently, to see Hamilton, which is my son’s favourite play/soundtrack at the moment. He has listened to it hundreds of times and knows all the lyrics. So, for his birthday, which was in June, I booked tickets for as soon as they ... Read more
Filling the GAP in HR services: First time for everything-Filling the GAP in HR services: First time for everything Over the years, I’ve had A LOT of questions related to the world of employment, but this week I had a question I’d never, ever had before: What to do when staff go on strike. The reason we’ve never had that question is because none ... Read more
Filling the GAP in HR services: Don’t be a Loughborough-Filling the GAP in HR services: Don’t be a Loughborough I almost can’t believe I’m typing this, but I was at Warwick University at the weekend, looking around it with my daughter Frances. Honestly, the idea that she’s nearly at university age is slightly terrifying, but I’m doing my best to put that to the back of ... Read more
Filling the GAP in HR services: tumble.angry.detriment-Filling the GAP in HR services: tumble.angry.detriment I came across an interesting article on the BBC website. It is about an app “what3words”. The team behind it have divided the whole planet into 57 trillion boxes, each of them 3 metres by 3 metres. Each box has a been given a unique 3 word reference. ... Read more
Filling the GAP in HR services: Discrimination grievance-Filling the GAP in HR services: Discrimination grievance I was speaking to a lady this week who’s recently won a disability discrimination case against her ex employer. The employer, despite having in-house legal counsel, made many, many mistakes. One of which was to NOT carry out a proper investigation of a grievance. Patricia had raised a grievance against her ... Read more
Filling the GAP in HR services: Named and shamed-Filling the GAP in HR services: Named and shamed I was at a networking meeting the other day, and – as you do – I ended up speaking to a business owner and trying to explain the point of HR to him. I say “trying”, because that is what he was being – trying! His ... Read more
Filling the GAP in HR services: No more suspension.-Filling the GAP in HR services: No more suspension. Things change. But some things change more dramatically than others. For those of us who have read “1984” (spoiler alert: it is NOT an uplifting book!) one of the key parts of their world was the absolute change of direction and allies from one day to ... Read more
Unlimited holiday for employees?!-One of the trendier ideas in the big companies, especially the Silicon Valley ones, is to offer an unlimited holidays policy to staff. For most employers, this will understandably seem like a scary concept – with most concerns centring around staff taking advantage. But when we delve deep into it, there are further problems than just being ... Read more
Filling the GAP in HR services: Snowdon Walk-Filling the GAP in HR services: Snowdon Walk I walked up Snowdon last week. It was a great experience, made even better by the glorious sunshine and pleasant breeze that meant there was zero need for my expensively acquired waterproof trousers. It was my friend Claire and I that made the trip happen – we’ve been ... Read more
Filling the GAP in HR services: Your invalid agreement-Filling the GAP in HR services: Your invalid agreement We’ve had a rash of settlement agreements to draw up recently. Usually we’re asked to do these because the business doesn’t want to go through a lengthy disciplinary process before possibly parting company. However, the struggle is usually getting the business to understand that they are not just ... Read more
Filling the GAP in HR services: Preston Fairytale-Filling the GAP in HR services: Preston Fairytale I was up in Preston last week. I don’t generally venture that far up north, but I was asked to give a talk at a GCMA meeting up there, so it was well worth the trip. And here’s an admission: one of the reasons I love my trips ... Read more
Filling the GAP in HR services: Perfect boots-Filling the GAP in HR services: Perfect boots I’m climbing Snowdon at the beginning of July. I’ve always loved walking, but I’ve only ever scaled the Welsh peak by train, so I jumped at the chance to take part. And with just over a month to go, I’ve started training to make sure I’m ready for it ... Read more
Filling the GAP in HR services: Black box-Filling the GAP in HR services: Black box I had a somewhat stressful weekend. My daughter has just passed her driving test and as a condition of the insurance she needs to have a telematics black box fitted. The insurance company sent a helpful video where a young lady in a modern MINI fitted the box in ... Read more
Filling the GAP in HR services: Why I stopped networking-Filling the GAP in HR services: Why I stopped networking I went to a group last week. I love networking. I enjoy the buzz of meeting new people, understanding more about different industries and hearing stories about how people have made sales and businesses in various areas and niches. But I don’t do it much ... Read more
