How Social Media is facilitating the Solicitation of Clients by Departing Employees Over the past decade, there has been a huge increase in the use of social media platforms by businesses. Social media can be a very effective way in which employees can disseminate information quickly and cost-effectively and it can also be used
Considerations for Employers on the run-up to Christmas 2021 For the past 20 months, the country has been told to lock down, work from home where possible and avoid close contact with others. With the successful roll-out of the vaccination programme and the opening up of the UK once again, many people are keen
Starting pay for all workers hit a record high In September due to an increase in competition for staff, research has found. Experts warn that wage growth will not sustain economic recovery and call on government to work with firms to avoid a “crisis-driven sugar rush”. The latest Report on Jobs survey by the
Management v Leadership Have you ever considered the vast difference between being a manager and a leader? Being a good manager doesn’t automatically make you a good leader. A key difference between a manager and a leader is that managers delegate tasks to those who work for them whereas leaders have people follow them
Homeworking & Flexible Working Scottish employees who work from home suffer with excessive workloads and have poorer work-life balance than those working in the office, a survey has found. The latest Working Lives Scotland report from the CIPD, which polled 1,007 people working in Scotland, found more than a third (37 per cent) of
Flexible Working Flexible working requests are not new in the workplace. They have, however, been thrown into the limelight following the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. For both employers and employees alike, the switch to homeworking as a business continuity measure during the pandemic has revealed that in certain cases, working from home and
An explanation of the UK Government's EU Settlement Scheme You will be aware that the new points-based immigration system came into force in the UK on 1 January 2021. The extended deadline for EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) applications for EU/EEA/Swiss citizens who were in the UK before 11pm on 31 December is 30 June
The Great Home Working Experiment It’s been described as a lightbulb moment where managers suddenly realised that jobs can be done flexibly, a turning point for equality at work. But has this really been the case? Normally we’d implement home or flexible working in a strategic and organised way rather than sending everyone home
Changes to National Minimum Wage Rates More than 100 companies, including some of the UK’s biggest household names, have been named and shamed by the government for failing to pay workers the minimum wage. The government investigated claims of failure to pay the national minimum wage (NMW) between 2016 and 2018, and discovered the
