Category: Redundancy

Advice, Employee, Employment law, Manager, Redundancy

Redundancy – not a magic wand to fire someone

When’s a redundancy not a redundancy? When it’s an obvious attempt to just sack someone. A real redundancy is when a company decides it no longer needs a particular role. Maybe because the work is no longer needed, or the company needs…

Advice, Business, Coronavirus, Employment, Health, Redundancy

Don’t panic – but act quickly

Wow. Okay, everyone’s talking about working from home, worrying about Coronavirus and stockpiling toilet rolls. We’re living in interesting times. Don’t panic. But before you get overtaken by events – and the worst case scenarios…

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, Change, Disciplinary, Employment, Employment law, Recruitment, Redundancy, Restructuring

Worried about losing your job?

Changes at work can feel like they happen out of the blue, sometimes as companies react to events – good or bad. Often the decisions to look for new kinds of customers or restructure to have different roles have been discussed, debated and…

Business, Change, Development, Disciplinary, Employment law, Grievance, Manager, Quick HR, Recruitment, Redundancy, Restructuring, Training

Special offer for our clients

We regularly run a practical "greatest hits" training course for busy managers, to improve your skills and confidence in a wide range of areas. We like to offer special services for our clients when we can. So instead of the usual course fees…

Advice, Business, Money, Pay, Redundancy, Restructuring, Start-up

£1,000 pay rise – coming soon

If you employ anyone 25 or older on pay levels based on the Minimum Wage, you will have to put their pay up by about £1,000 a year soon. Then it will carry on increasing by roughly the same amount each year, so it’s going to have a big impact…

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…

Business, Employment law, Quick HR, Redundancy

We won – and it’s new case law

Although grappling with legal issues is a regular part of the job, we don’t often get a chance to add to employment law. We have now. Apart from when new laws come into effect, employment law changes through decisions involving cases and…

Advice, Appraisal, Brighton and Hove, Business, Change, Development, Digital, Disciplinary, Employment, Employment law, Grievance, Manager, Quick HR, Recruitment, Redundancy, Restructuring, Start-up, Sussex, Training

“Greatest hits” training for busy managers

We’re running a practical "greatest hits" training course for busy managers, to improve your skills and confidence in a wide range of areas. Avoid walking into legal disputes when you are recruiting, developing people or dealing with problems…

Change, Development, Digital, Disciplinary, Employment law, Grievance, Manager, Quick HR, Recruitment, Redundancy, Restructuring, Testimonial, Training

Training course for managers – feedback

Quick HR's Brian Warren ran a training course for Wired Sussex members on managing people and employment law. The course is a "greatest hits" package providing a firm foundation for busy people, to develop their skills and confidence. It covers…

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…