Category: Employee

Advice, Disciplinary, Employee, Employment, Grievance, Quick HR, Redundancy

Companions for meetings – but no clowns

We deal with all sorts of quirky goings on in the wonderful world of work and HR - but bringing a clown to a formal meeting is a new one on us! You may have read that a man in New Zealand chose to bring an “emotional support” clown with…

Advice, Employee, Employment, Pay

Pay and pension changes from April 2019

In April changes to pension contributions and pay levels come into effect. Pension contributions Minimum pension contributions are increasing to a minimum of 8% of an employee’s salary. The minimum split for contributions is: Employer…

Advice, Business, Digital, Employee, Employment, Manager, Recruitment

Working at home or everyone in an office?

My colleague Brian recently wrote a blog about the difficulties of hiring locally and thinking about relocating staff to work for you, with some handy tips and food for thought. But, as I sit in my kitchen, working remotely, I question why…

Business, Employee, Employment, Health, Parents, Pay, Work

Parents, sickness and minimum wage – what you have to pay

Compulsory pay rates for various situations have just increased: the minimum wage, maternity and paternity pay as well as sick pay, if your company doesn’t pay people normal salaries when they are absent from work through illness. To help…

Advice, Employee, Employment, Employment law, Holiday, Parents, Pay, Work

Working parent? Here’s everything you need to know

Expecting a baby? Already a parent? Do you employ parents or soon to be parents? We’re often asked about what parents are entitled to or how everything works with employers when someone takes maternity or paternity leave. Most people know…

Advice, Business, Employee, Employment, Employment law, Work

No more Employment Tribunal fees: what happens now?

Employment Tribunal fees are unlawful and the Government has to refund anything from £27m to £32m to people who have made claims. So what happens next? Since 2013 when fees were introduced, people who felt unfairly sacked or discriminated…

Advice, Brighton and Hove, Digital, Employee, Quick HR, Social media

5 tips on social media and working people

Brian's provided advice about social media and the workplace for an article in the Brighton and Hove Independent. Here's the article, so you don't have to squint at the image. Companies use social media to promote products and communicate…

Advice, Brighton and Hove, Business, Digital, Employee, Manager, Quick HR, Recruitment, Social media, Training

Social media and work: tips and training

Facebook, Twitter and all the other social media sites are changing our lives: keeping in touch with friends and relatives around the world, making new friends with shared interests and communicating quickly about whatever seizes the imagination. The…

Advice, Business, Employee, Employment, Manager, Money, Pay

Living or Minimum wages: what do you have to pay?

What’s the difference between a Minimum Wage and a Living Wage? Well, it depends who you ask. The Government is introducing a compulsory Living Wage soon, although critics are saying that’s just changing the name of the Minimum Wage –…

CV, Disciplinary, Employee, Employment law, Redundancy

Employees: need help?

We're frequently asked if we work with employees or just company bosses and managers. Yes, we regularly assist people facing tricky times at work. So why would an employee need to work with Quick HR? Here are a few examples: You’re worried…

Advice, Employee, Employment, Employment law, Manager

Work disputes – less risk of a Tribunal claim?

Feeling hard done by at work? Sacked unfairly or victimised because you’re somehow different to the others? You’re probably aware of Employment Tribunals but you might have seen publicity about fees and the falling numbers of Tribunal claims. People…

Advice, Employee, Employment, Employment law, Parents

Juggling work and children: a mum’s story

For the umpteenth time I find myself rushing out the door, half way up the road, late, son in tow and I have fluffy slippers on. Surely not as bad as turning up at work with a small child asleep in the back of the car…..I had forgotten…

Advice, Employee, Employment law, Manager, Parents

Flexible working – now everyone can ask for it

Want to reduce your working hours, change your working pattern or work from home? All employees now have the right to ask for these changes, as long as you’ve been employed for 26 weeks (six months). Previously it was limited to parents and…

Brighton and Hove, Community, Digital, Employee, Employment, Pay, Recruitment, Sussex, Training, Work

Pay well? Tell everyone

Do you pay employees at least £7.85 an hour? If you’re not sure, that’s a salary of £15,100 - £16,300 depending on the length of your working week (based on 37-40 hours a week). If you’ve answered yes, and most digital media companies…

Advice, Business, Change, Development, Digital, Employee, Employment, Employment law, Manager, Quick HR, Recruitment, Restructuring, Testimonial, Training, Work

Testimonials: what people say about Quick HR

"Brian is by far the best HR leader I have worked with" Mark Chapman Client Strategy + Services Director at White Hat Media Brian ran an HR course for a handful of companies that I attended which provided a comprehensive overview of many…

Disciplinary, Employee, Manager, Quick HR, Testimonial

“You were my rock”

A grateful client's sent a lovely note with thanks for helping her through a tough time with her company's bosses. She was scared her career might be at risk and that her manager was planning to sack her. She contacted Quick HR who helped her…

Advice, Employee, Employment, Employment law, Grievance, Quick HR, Redundancy, Restructuring, Testimonial, Work

“Thanks for your expert advice and support”

Just received a lovely note from a grateful client who was facing losing his job without any kind of severance payment when we first spoke and who finished by being better off by £60,000 after working with Quick HR. The client says: "Thank…

Advice, Employee, Employment, Employment law, Grievance, Manager, Work

“She never listens to me…. I’m going to complain”

So grievances are a way that employees can make a formal complaint about a workplace issue, whether it involves another employee or a manager. Having looked at grievances from a manager’s point of view, let’s consider the issue from the…