5 Warning Signs Of Bad Company Culture (And How To Fix It)

5 Warning Signs Of Bad Company Culture (And How To Fix It)

When your business started out, it was probably just you striving to make it a success. But after a while your efforts paid off, and now you have a team of people working together to make your business a success. But when you start to bring other people into the...
6 Tips For Effective Onboarding

6 Tips For Effective Onboarding

When you hire a new employee, you might think that signals the end of the hiring process. But you couldn’t be more wrong. You see, the hiring process doesn’t really end until the employee has started, settled into their new job and shown no signs of leaving at the end...
3 Reasons Your Small Business Needs HR Support

3 Reasons Your Small Business Needs HR Support

Generally, businesses with under 50 employees rarely have HR support in-house. In fact, they rarely have HR support at all. That’s because the CEO, who is also the CFO, doing the work and being the dogsbody, sees it as another extra cost. But without expert HR...
The Role Of Performance Reviews, And How To Improve Yours

The Role Of Performance Reviews, And How To Improve Yours

If you employ people in your business – even just one person – or you’ve been employed by a business before, then you’re probably familiar with the performance review. For most businesses, they’re treated as a once annual meeting between employee and manager to...

Contract Form

Do you want a 3 or 6 month probationary period?
What are employee’s normal working hours?
If they do work over a weekend is that part of their working week or is it paid at an overtime rate?
Do you pay lunch breaks? If yes is it half an hour or an hour?
Do employees work bank holidays?
Do you pay O/T?
Do you pay company sick pay on top of statutory sick pay?
Do you offer a pension scheme?
Do you have a collective agreement in place?

Employee Handbook Form

Do you pay O/T?
Do you pay lunch breaks? If yes is it half an hour or an hour?
Do you pay company sick pay on top of statutory sick pay?
Can an employee text in to say they are sick?
Do you have a return to work form that employees have to complete?
Do you allow members of your team to post items onto the company’s social media platforms?
Do you require a company vehicle policy?