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We all have stories about our own experiences with horrible bosses, but what is it that makes them bad leaders? Horrible bosses aren’t horrible people, most of the time, they just lack certain skills themselves. BambooHR asked 1,000 UK-based employees what traits...

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has helped many businesses since March but we now know that it will be coming to an end in October and unfortunately that means that we are starting to talk about redundancy more often as business are starting to think about what...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 where it...

Nothing new to report on the the new furlough rules but there is some clarified wording shared below from the HMRC that does give reassurance that anyone furloughed for at least 3 weeks at any time prior to 30 June (even if currently back at work) can be furloughed...