Articles in "Human Resources"

The standard three-day waiting time for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) will be reinstated for coronavirus (COVID-19)-related claims from 25 March 2022, unless the government intervenes.

National Work life week looks to encourage organisations to create a workplace that promotes employee wellbeing through their work life balance

As many businesses seek to recruit new staff as we emerge from lockdown, two online HR masterclasses taking place this month are designed to help employers get the basics of contracts and the staff handbook right – especially smaller businesses which may not have a dedicated HR function.

A tribunal has recently concluded upon a case in which an employee was dismissed for his refusal to attend the workplace until ‘lockdown had eased’. The claimant had a 7 month old baby and a child with sickle cell disease so deemed removing himself from the workplace an appropriate measure to protect himself and his family from Covid-19.

April 2020 saw a number of measures from the Good Work Plan come into effect.

As employers start to think about staff returning to the workplace it may be that flexible working is something that many employees will raise, but is this something that businesses have to facilitate?

Businesses which use independent contractors as part of their workforce need to conduct an urgent review of whether those contractors should be regarded as employed workers, following a landmark Supreme Court judgement last week, according to a leading East Anglian HR expert.

At Lovewell Blake we offer exciting opportunities for school leavers to undertake apprenticeships. They are given the chance to receive award-winning training, as well as earning a salary with hands-on experience working on real clients work allowing them to put their studies into practice.