Filling the GAP in HR services: HR update – Coronavirus-Filling the GAP in HR services: HR update – Coronavirus Latest employer related updates regarding coronavirus: Statutory sick pay is now to be paid from day one of illness. No other changes to the amount paid or for how long – 28 weeks. The Chancellor said that SSP for all companies with fewer than 250 ... Read more
Filling the GAP in HR Services: Being Grounded-Filling the GAP in HR Services: Being Grounded As I write this, we’re at the end of the second day of full lockdown, or “being grounded” as I like to refer to it. And what amazes me is how the media is rubbing salt in our wounds, by playing out of date TV and radio ... Read more
Filling the GAP in HR services: No planned perspiration-Filling the GAP in HR services: No planned perspiration I went up to London with Frances and Christopher at the weekend. I’d booked the Mischief Theatre’s Magic Goes Wrong at the Vaudeville Theatre, so we hopped on the train and off we went. I printed the tickets, checked the route in London, and although it ... Read more
Filling the GAP in HR services: Holiday pay calculation charges-This guidance explains how to calculate holiday pay for workers without fixed hours or fixed rates of pay. An important change is coming to the holiday pay reference period, and it’s going to be used to calculate holiday pay entitlement for employees and workers. Until now, average weekly pay for holiday pay purposes has been ... Read more
Filling The GAP In HR Services: Refusing To Get Money From The Government?!-Filling the GAP in HR services: Refusing to get money from the Government?! Just before Christmas I read about a small employer trying to save money. Nothing wrong with that, but only if you’re sensible about it. This company wasn’t. Instead, they’ve ended up in tribunal after telling a pregnant employee that it was the ... Read more
Tribunal Details Embarrassing?-Tribunal Details Embarrassing? Imagine this: an employee has taken you to the tribunal. And then, with the tribunal settled, they ask the Court of Appeal to withhold the tribunal ruling from the public register because the details are “embarrassing”. Are they allowed to do this? Well, here’s what happened recently in the case of L ... Read more
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
