

Keeping Your Workplace Healthy During Flu Season with hr support
The onset of flu season can bring about numerous challenges for businesses, ranging from increased absences to reduced productivity. With...

Susan Wakelin
Oct 12, 20233 min read
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How You Can Spot a Poor Work / Life Balance, and What to Do About It?
If you’re managing a multigenerational workforce, you might find that identifying divergence in their wellbeing tricky. We all know that...

Susan Wakelin
Oct 10, 20234 min read
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Supporting Your Staff Whilst Working With AI
The uses and benefits of AI have grown on a steep incline for the last few years, but a concern is and always has been supporting and...

Susan Wakelin
Sep 21, 20232 min read
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What is Occupational Health and Why is it Important to Employers?
According to the Workplace Wellbeing Report (Management Today, 2023) nearly 70% of line managers have not been trained on how to...

Susan Wakelin
Sep 7, 20233 min read
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Flexible Working
ACAS Consultation and Code Updates to Handling Requests Flexible working, or ‘Flexitime’ as it is called colloquially, was...

Susan Wakelin
Aug 29, 20233 min read
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HR Advice: How do Employers manage with Warm Weather?
We are often asked for HR advice around temperature regulations and how employers can keep employees comfortable whilst they work, in...

Susan Wakelin
Jul 11, 20233 min read
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HR Advice: What are the Good Work Plan and Good Work Agenda?
In the ever-evolving landscape of business, having the right HR support and advice takes on a pivotal role, especially when navigating...

Susan Wakelin
Jun 27, 20234 min read
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LGBTQ+ Community and Pride for Employers
June is the month of Pride each year and is dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community. Pride Month is a celebration of the LGBTQ+ community, and...

Susan Wakelin
Jun 20, 20234 min read
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ACAS Guidance on Reasonable Adjustments for Mental Health?
The good news is that the disabled workforce in the UK increased by two million people between 2013 and 2022, but how do employers ensure...

Susan Wakelin
Jun 13, 20233 min read
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Do poor managers have a negative effect on employees?
A report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) recently found that there was a direct link between poor...

Susan Wakelin
May 30, 20233 min read
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Why are employers turning to temporary staff?
With the current economic uncertainty and the rise in cost of living, many employers are turning to temporary staff. The recent UK Report...

Susan Wakelin
May 23, 20234 min read
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Post-Brexit Employment Law Changes?
With over 2,400 pieces of EU law on the government's retained EU law dashboard, the Government introduced the Retained EU Law (Revocation...

Susan Wakelin
May 16, 20233 min read
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How do employers protect themselves from illegal working?
Did you know that it is a criminal offence for an employer to knowingly employ an individual who does not have permission to work in the...

Susan Wakelin
May 9, 20233 min read
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How will the King's coronation effect employers?
King Charles III's coronation is on Saturday, 6 May 2023. Many businesses will decide to close for the day of the King's coronation, but...

Susan Wakelin
May 2, 20234 min read
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What role do employers play in preventing the re-offending of ex-prisoners?
Evidence shows that ex-prisoners who have a job to go to after leaving prison are 9% less likely to re-offend. Ex-offenders face a lot of...

Susan Wakelin
Apr 25, 20233 min read
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Human Resources at its Best - Six months on!
With a big thank you to those who have supported SWan HR so far! Amazingly, it has been six months already since Susan Wakelin set up...

Susan Wakelin
Apr 18, 20234 min read
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Do you know the new statutory rates of pay for 2023/24?
Statutory rates of pay are reviewed for April each year, and it is important that employers understand what rates have changed and ensure...

Susan Wakelin
Apr 11, 20232 min read
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Can employers "fire and rehire" employees?
UK law does not generally allow employers to unilaterally change employees' terms and conditions of employment. However, there are...

Susan Wakelin
Apr 4, 20233 min read
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What do employers need to know about Ramadan?
Ramadan is the holy month of the Islamic calendar, it begins on 22 March and lasts until 21 April 2023. Throughout Ramadan, many Muslims...

Susan Wakelin
Mar 28, 20233 min read
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How has Brexit affected recruitment for employers?
Three years on since Brexit. One of the main effects of Brexit on employers was the end to the freedom of movement for workers to and...

Susan Wakelin
Mar 21, 20233 min read
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