by Rachel Goodman | Aug 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Work-life balance is not our favourite term really, especially when you’re the owner of a business. Work and life come hand in hand but recent months any kind of balance has become much harder to achieve. Business owners have also had to adjust to working from home,...
by Rachel Goodman | Aug 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Holiday season means holiday pay. Working out holiday pay for many employees is fairly straight forward but there can be some spanners in the works especially when dealing with commission in holiday pay (or other variable payments such as shift allowances and on call...
by Rachel Goodman | Aug 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
You may be aware (or you may get employees asking you questions) that there was a press release late last week https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-law-to-ensure-furloughed-employees-receive-full-redundancy-payments that the BBC & other media grandly announced...
by Rachel Goodman | Jul 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
Summer 2020, school is out and its very nearly August, for many that would usually mean we are about to jet off to some far flung places to enjoy time with family to relax and recharge. Unfortunately, summer 2020 plans have had to be put on hold for lots of us, but...
by Rachel Goodman | Jun 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Employee Burnout & Presenteeism How are you? Really? This is a question you should be asking your employees on a regular basis? Burnout has doubled since lockdown began. Burnout is categorised as depleting energy or exhaustion, mental distancing or negativity to...
by Rachel Goodman | Jun 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Released about 9pm Friday – the Flexible Furlough Scheme guidance is finally here in all its glory …and there is no point pretending otherwise – it’s complicated! Actually the principle of flexibly furloughing is pretty straightforward – the claims are...