Holidays in the Workplace are an important employee right but they can create issues at times. Yes, it may only be February, but we're all looking ahead to our Summer holidays... right? With holidays comes time off work, and this can sometimes create complications for...
Policies and Procedures
8 Employee Handbook Template Tips
Your employee handbook template is more than a resource employees will leave on their desks for years to come. It’s more than a recitation of basic staff rights and responsibilities too. In fact, it’s also a way to set forth your policies and expectations. Most...
What Should I Include In An Employee Handbook?
It's the Summer Holidays and that time of year when a lot of your staff are taking time off. This can be a quiet time of the year due to this. In addition, it's important that you encourage productivity and continue to work on your business despite this. You can use...
GDPR Compliance | The HR Booth GDPR Pack
GDPR Guidelines The implementation of GDPR is fast approaching and we have been working closely with our clients to ensure their business fits in with GDPR compliance. The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes in to force on 25th May 2018, and it is...
Holiday Planning Checklist: Why You Should Plan Summer Holidays Early In Your Business
The summer season can be hectic with managing holiday planning in your business. This is the time of year when your staff are flying out to warmer climates. Some employees with young children may not have this opportunity. Working parents can be faced with balancing...
Holiday Planning
How to manage staff holidays? Things seem to go to bad to worse for Ryanair following the way they’ve not managed holiday entitlement. As you will know, they have had to cancel thousands of flights, and their reputation has been severely damaged with threats of legal...
Assessing Risk in the Workplace: What Needs Attention Right Now
Picture your workplace and ask yourself: What could harm people? What steps can you take to reduce that harm? This is the foundation of risk assessment, and it’s a process you should constantly consider to reduce liability, comply with workplace safety laws, and keep...
How to Conduct a Fair Disciplinary Meeting
As your business and team grow it’s likely that from time to time you may experience some unforeseen challenges with your employees that you will have to deal with. We recognise that it’s important to the smooth running of your business to be able to nip...
What are the advantages of a probationary period?
In this weeks question of the week, we explain what the advantages are of have a probationary period in place. Question What are the advantages of a probationary period? Answer It is good practice to make use of a probationary period with a new staff...
Adverse Weather
We get asked HR related questions every day and each week we will be sharing our top question of the week that we have been asked here at The HR Booth. In this week’s question of the week we explain what to do in adverse weather conditions when employees...
On the eleventh day of CHRistmas my employee said to me… he piped up on Facebook
Not my best link there, but piper's piping made me think of people, especially your employees, piping up or rather posting on Facebook or some other social media, something less than optimal about your business, your customers or maybe your staff. This is...
On the fourth day of CHRistmas my employee said to me… nothing because they were on their phone
Yes the links are getting tenuous, but at least calling birds is vaguely relevant to making phone calls! It's not so much the making of phone calls, but very one very real question we have been asked is Can I stop my employee using their mobile phone in...