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Managing Underperforming Employees: A Checklist For Employers
Managing the performance of a workforce in its entirety requires an understanding of the performance profile of all individual members of staff within it. Loch HR can help employers to identify the common ways in which employees may underperform and the reasons behind them.
How the EU Settlement Scheme Could Affect Your Business
If you haven’t already started a dialogue with your staff on the EU Settlement Scheme, then the following information will also be useful to help you do that too.
Apprenticeships Guide for Employers: Loch Associates Group
Apprenticeships are work-based training programmes. They are open to everyone aged 16 or above. Employers wishing to hire apprentices should be aware that their management of the apprenticeship must meet certain conditions.
What Are the Different Types of Grievance in the Workplace?
Types of grievances raised in the workplace can stem from issues relating to discrimination, bullying and harassment, pay and working conditions.
Flu Jabs in the Workplace: Everything You Need to Know
Knowing the rights of employees is essential for employers when devising appropriate flu-related policies — particularly with regard to the provision of flu jabs in the workplace.
Communicating Employee Pay Cuts: Strategies for Avoiding Conflict
It is vital that employers are familiar with the specific litigation surrounding reducing remuneration, prior to initiating any form of discussion surrounding pay cuts. This the best possible means of avoiding successful claims being brought against the company by disgruntled employees.
Safeguarding the Mental Health of Employees in the Financial Services Sector
Recent research into the psychological welfare of the UK’s workforce – and of professionals working in the finance sector in particular – has profound ramifications for both workers and businesses. It is advisable for employers to familiarise themselves with a range of legislation in order to anticipate and prevent disputes relating to mental health.
Social Messaging in the Workplace
The need to communicate flexibly often results in companies embracing some of the latest social and instant messaging tools, however, employers need to be mindful of how these tools are used in the workplace. Increasingly businesses are faced with allegations of breaches of confidentiality and data protection, as well as bullying and harassment claims.
Latest news on IR35 in the private sector
Our guide to employee handbooks provides practical considerations on how to craft and communicate your company policies and operating procedures.
A Guide to Employee Handbooks
Our guide to employee handbooks provides practical considerations on how to craft and communicate your company policies and operating procedures.
WhatsApp in the workplace
How can employers manage the risks associated with their employees using WhatsApp and social media messaging apps during working hours. Pam provides an insight into what the risks are and provides advice for employers in this article for HR Magazine.
Counting the cost of ignoring mental health at work
In this article for Finance Monthly, Pam Loch and Bruce Jenner look at why employers need to be more proactive in addressing mental health issues in the workplace and discuss some simple steps that financial institutions and financial services firms can take to show their commitment to employee wellbeing.
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