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Topic page - recruitment
  1. Step by step recruitment
  2. How to write a job description
  3. How to write a person specification
  4. How to write a job advert
  5. Step by step interviewing
  6. Competency-based selection
  7. Occupational testing
  8. How to run a simple assessment day
  9. Step by step making a job offer
  10. Discrimination - recruitment considerations
  11. Data Protection - recruitment and selection
  12. Recruitment documents
Topic page - contracts and policies
  1. Employment status
  2. Contracts of employment
  3. Changing contractual terms
  4. Restrictive covenants
  5. Fixed-term contracts
  6. Managing the psychological contract
  7. Why have policies and procedures
  8. Offer letter and contracts
    1. Offer of employment
    2. Statement of terms and conditions of employment
    3. Contract of employment - annual hours
    4. Contract of employment - apprentice
    5. Contract of employment - fixed-term or defined project
    6. Contract of employment - home worker
    7. Contract of employment - job-share
    8. Contract of employment - manager or senior staff
    9. Casual worker's agreement
    10. Director's service agreement
  9. Handbooks/guidelines
    1. Employee handbook
    2. Drivers' handbook
    3. Employee guide to appraisals
    4. Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and dependant leave guidelines
  10. Essential policies and procedures
    1. Absence reporting and sick pay
    2. Bullying and harassment
    3. Disciplinary procedure
    4. Equal opportunity
    5. Grievance procedure
    6. Health and safety
    7. Health and safety rules
    8. IT and computer use
    9. Maternity/adoption/paternity/
    10. parental/dependant leave
    11. Whistleblowing
  11. Additional HR policies and agreements
    1. Additional work
    2. Business ethics
    3. Business gifts and hospitality
    4. Car and vehicle
    5. Career break and sabbaticals
    6. Data protection
    7. Diversity
    8. Dress code
    9. Driving on business
    10. Drugs, alcohol and substance abuse
    11. Environmental
    12. Expenses
    13. Extended leave
    14. Flexible working
    15. Fraud prevention
    16. Home working
    17. Lone workers
    18. Mobile phone
    19. Personal relationships at work
    20. Recruitment and selection
    21. Redundancy
    22. References
    23. Relocation
    24. Retirement
    25. Reward
    26. Search
    27. Smoking
    28. Stress
    29. Training and development
    30. Union partnership agreement
    31. Work experience
    32. Working and travelling abroad
    33. Working with children and vulnerable adults
    34. Working with volunteers
    35. Work-related functions and events
  12. Additional H & S policies and agreements
    1. Accident report
    2. Display screen equipment (DSE)
    3. Driving on business
    4. Drugs, alcohol and substance abuse
    5. Fire safety
    6. First aid at work
    7. Home working
    8. Lone workers
    9. Mobile phone
    10. Personal protective equipment (PPE)
    11. Smoking
    12. Stress
    13. Use of chemicals at work
    14. Violence at work
Topic page - new starters
  1. Pre-employment checks
  2. Checking the right to work in the UK
  3. Foreign nationals and work permits
  4. Taking up references
  5. Criminal records and CRB disclosures
  6. Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups ("VBS")
  7. Employing young persons and children
  8. Transfer of Undertakings (TUPE)
  9. Managing TUPE transfers - transfer in
  10. Step by step induction
  11. Managing the probationary period
  12. New starter documents
Topic page - during employment
  1. Absence
    1. Handling absence due to sickness or injury
    2. Statements of Fitness for Work
    3. Return to work interviews
    4. Data Protection - health monitoring
    5. Managing long-term absence due to ill-health
    6. Handling absences other than sickness
    7. Managing holidays
    8. Working Time Regulations (WTR)
    9. Absence documents
  2. Consultation and communication
    1. Step by step communication
    2. Consulting with your workers
    3. Employee consultation
    4. Step by step employee surveys
    5. Suggestion schemes
    6. Introduction to internal communications
    7. Communicating effectively during mergers, acquisitions and change
    8. Trade unions
    9. Working with unions
    10. Preventing and managing industrial action
    11. Consultation documents
  3. Discipline and misconduct
    1. Step by step disciplinary investigations
    2. Step by step disciplinary meetings
    3. Disciplinary action
    4. Managing poor performance
    5. Bullying and harassment at work
    6. Dismissal
    7. Misconduct outside work
    8. Dealing with theft and fraud
    9. Data Protection - employee monitoring
    10. Discipline and misconduct documents
  4. Discrimination and diversity
    1. Discrimination - general
    2. Discrimination - age
    3. Discrimination - disability
    4. Discrimination - race
    5. Discrimination - religion or belief
    6. Discrimination - sex
    7. Discrimination - sexual orientation
    8. Bullying and harassment at work
    9. Equality Act
    10. Diversity in the workplace
    11. Right to request flexible working
    12. Flexible working
    13. Part-time workers
    14. Women in the workplace
    15. Managing an age-diverse workforce
    16. Equality, diversity and flexible working documents
  5. Grievances
    1. Handling grievances
    2. Grievance documents
  6. Managing your workers
    1. Step by step communication
    2. Step by step motivating your team
    3. Managing the psychological contract
    4. Step by step delegation
    5. Step by step retention
    6. Step by step time management
    7. Stress at work
    8. Managing depression
    9. Working and travelling abroad
    10. Working with clients, contractors and other third parties
    11. Working with children and vulnerable adults
    12. Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups ("VBS")
    13. Personal relationships at work
    14. Social networking
    15. Work-related functions
    16. Managing remote workers
  7. Managing your organisation
    1. Managing conflict
    2. Managing change
    3. Changing culture
    4. Step by step restructuring
    5. Succession management
    6. Benchmarking
    7. Bribery Act 2010
    8. Business gifts and hospitality
    9. Dealing with theft and fraud
    10. Whistleblowing
    11. Working with clients, contractors and other third parties
    12. Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
    13. Crisis and contingency planning
    14. Managing extreme weather conditions
    15. Managing during major sporting events
    16. Managing 'redundancy survivor syndrome'
    17. Managing in a continued recession
    18. Avoiding tribunals
    19. Directors' responsibilities
  8. Maternity, adoption, paternity and parental
    1. Maternity leave
    2. Adoption leave
    3. Paternity leave
    4. Parental leave
    5. Time off for dependants
    6. Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental
    7. and time off for dependants documents
  9. Working hours
    1. Working Time Regulations (WTR)
    2. Young persons and children
    3. Standby and call-out arrangements
    4. Lay-off and short-time working
    5. Right to request flexible working
    6. Flexible working schemes
    7. Right to request time to train
    8. Part-time workers
    9. Job share arrangements
    10. Home working
    11. Career break schemes
    12. Working time documents
Topic page - pay and benefits
  1. National Minimum Wage (NMW)
  2. Itemised pay statements
  3. PAYE and Income Tax
  4. National Insurance Contributions (NICs)
  5. Deductions from pay
  6. Attachment of Earnings Orders (AEOs)
  7. Salary sacrifice
  8. Elements of a reward package
  9. Factors that influence pay levels
  10. How to undertake a pay review
  11. Equal pay
  12. Equal pay audits
  13. Job evaluation
  14. Sick pay (including Statutory Sick Pay)
  15. Pension schemes - general overview
  16. Pensions - stakeholder pensions
  17. Pensions - 'Personal Accounts' scheme
  18. Pensions - occupational and personal pension schemes
  19. Working Time Regulations (WTR)
  20. Sales commission schemes
  21. Standby and call-out arrangements
  22. Bonus/incentive schemes
  23. Flexible (or cafeteria) benefits schemes
  24. Childcare vouchers
  25. Cycle to work scheme
  26. Employee assistance programmes ('EAP's)
  27. Pay documents
Topic page - training and development
  1. Step by step training and development
  2. Step by step appraisal
  3. 360-degree appraisal
  4. Step by step performance management
  5. Management development
  6. Coaching and mentoring
  7. Talent management
  8. Identifying and developing leadership skills
  9. Investors in People (IIP)
  10. Secondments
  11. Apprentices
  12. Right to request time to train
  13. Succession management
  14. E-learning
  15. Training and appraisal documents
Topic page - health and safety
  1. Health and safety - legal minimum requirements
  2. Health and safety - employee responsibilities
  3. Risk assessments
  4. Health and safety representatives
  5. Step by step health and safety meetings
  6. Accident reporting and records
  7. Alcohol and drug abuse in the workplace
  8. Asbestos
  9. Blood-borne viruses
  10. The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH)
  11. The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act
  12. Disabled workers - health and safety considerations
  13. Display screen equipment (VDUs)
  14. Driving on business
  15. Driving - use of mobile phones
  16. Electricity at work
  17. Fire
  18. First aid
  19. Working at height
  20. Home workers
  21. Working in hot temperatures
  22. Legionella
  23. Lone workers
  24. Manual handling
  25. Night workers
  26. Noise
  27. Occupational health services (OHS)
  28. Personal protective equipment (PPE)
  29. Portable electrical appliances
  30. Pregnant workers and women of child-bearing age
  31. Road Transport (Working Time) Regulations
  32. Slips, trips and falls
  33. Smoking
  34. Stress at work
  35. Vibration
  36. Workplace violence
  37. Further advice
  38. Health and safety documents
Topic page - ending employment
  1. Managing leavers
  2. Exit interviews
  3. References
  4. Notice periods
  5. Dismissal
  6. Step by step redundancy
  7. Redundancy
  8. Redundancy pay ready-reckoner
  9. Managing 'redundancy survivor syndrome'
  10. Retirement - the statutory procedure
  11. Managing retirement
  12. Transfer of Undertakings Regulations (TUPE)
  13. Managing TUPE transfers - transfer out
  14. Death-in-service
  15. Employment tribunals
  16. Tribunal claims
  17. Compromise agreements
  18. Arbitration
  19. Leaver and dismissal documents
Topic page - non-employees
  1. Employment status
  2. Agency workers
  3. Work experience and unpaid placements
  4. Working with clients, contractors and other third parties
  5. Working with children and vulnerable adults
  6. Criminal records and CRB disclosures
  7. Volunteers
  8. Non-employee documents
Topic page - HR administration
  1. Step by step personnel files and administration
  2. Document retention
  3. Document retention
  4. Data Protection Act (DPA)
  5. Data protection - recruitment and selection
  6. Data protection - employment records
  7. Data protection - employee monitoring
  8. Data protection - health monitoring
  9. HR administration documents
Topic page - letters and forms
  1. HR letters and agreements
    1. Absence - confirm warning
    2. Absence - unauthorised - letters
    3. Adoption letters and checklist
    4. Appeal letters - discipline/dismissal
    5. Authorisation to make deduction(s) from pay
    6. Authorisation of additional, outside, work
    7. Career break letters
    8. Change to contractual terms and conditions
    9. Compromise agreement
    10. Confidential disclosure agreement
    11. Discipline - confirm warning
    12. Discipline - invite to disciplinary hearing
    13. Discipline - suspension - letters
    14. Dismissal (expiry of fixed-term contract)
    15. Dismissal (ill-health)
    16. Dismissal (misconduct or poor performance)
    17. Dismissal (some other substantial reason)
    18. Dismissal (unauthorised absence)
    19. Employee satisfaction survey
    20. Flexible working requests - letters and form
    21. Grievance letters
    22. Harassment or bullying - acknowledge allegation
    23. Jury service - confirm details
    24. Lay-off - confirm details
    25. Maternity letters and checklist
    26. Medical reports
    27. New starter - first day reporting instructions
    28. Non-disclosure agreement
    29. Offer of employment
    30. Paternity letters and form
    31. Pay review - confirm details
    32. Performance management
    33. Probationary letters
    34. Recruitment letters
    35. Redundancy letters and forms
    36. Reference requests
    37. Relocation repayment agreement
    38. Resignation - confirm acceptance
    39. Retirement letters and form
    40. Sales commission scheme
    41. Secondment - letters and agreements
    42. Sick pay - expiry of payment
    43. Time to train requests - letters and form
    44. Training repayment agreement
    45. Tribunal claim - request to strike out
    46. TUPE letters and forms
    47. Volunteer agreement
    48. Whistleblowing - acknowledge receipt of concern
    49. Working Time Regulations - opt-out agreements
  2. HR forms
    1. Absence record
    2. Adoption letters and checklist
    3. Application form
    4. Appraisal form
    5. Appraisal review preparation form
    6. Authority to recruit form
    7. Bank details form
    8. Data access request form
    9. Death-in-service checklist
    10. Employee satisfaction survey
    11. Equipment issued (record of)
    12. Exit interview form
    13. Expenses claim form
    14. Flexible working requests letters and form
    15. Holiday request forms
    16. Home working induction checklist
    17. Induction checklist
    18. Induction plan
    19. Interview assessment form
    20. Interview expenses claim form
    21. Job description
    22. Leaver checklist
    23. Leaver's report form
    24. Maternity letters and checklist
    25. Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and dependant leave guidelines
    26. Parental leave record
    27. Person specification
    28. Personal details form
    29. Personnel file checklist
    30. Pre-employment health questionnaire
    31. Recruitment - short-list form
    32. Redundancy letters and forms
    33. Retirement letters and form
    34. Self-certification of absence form
    35. Time to train requests - letters and form
    36. Training and development plan
    37. Training evaluation form
    38. Training record
    39. TUPE letters and forms
    40. Turnover analysis form
    41. Working time record
  3. HR handouts for managers
    1. DOs and DON'Ts - absence
    2. DOs and DON'Ts - appraisal
    3. DOs and DON'Ts - bullying and harassment
    4. DOs and DON'Ts - discipline
    5. DOs and DON'Ts - dismissal
    6. DOs and DON'Ts - grievances
    7. DOs and DON'Ts - probationary periods
    8. DOs and DON'Ts - recruitment
    9. DOs and DON'Ts - redundancy
    10. DOs and DON'Ts - references
    11. DOs and DON'Ts - retirement
    12. Essential employment law for managers
  4. H & S forms
    1. Accident claim checklist
    2. Accident report form
    3. Accident witness statement
    4. Chemical storeroom checklist
    5. COSHH assessment
    6. Disability assessment questionnaire
    7. DSE eye test form
    8. DSE self-assessment questionnaire
    9. Driver safety checklist
    10. Electrical visual inspection checklist
    11. Emergency procedure checklist
    12. Equipment issued record
    13. Fire evacuation report
    14. Fire safety checklist
    15. Fire warden checklist
    16. First aid room checklist
    17. First aid kit contents form
    18. Home working assessment
    19. Housekeeping checklist
    20. Ladders - inspection forms
    21. Laptops - health and safety guidance for users
    22. Mobile access towers (MAT) checklist
    23. Mobile staff safety checklist
    24. Night worker assessment
    25. Office refurbishment safety checklist
    26. Out of hours emergency procedure
    27. Permit to work - confined space
    28. Permit to work - working at height
    29. Pregnancy health and safety checklist
    30. Procedure for using ladders
    31. Training record
    32. Work experience checklist
    33. Working time record
    34. Working Time Regulations - opt-out agreements
Topic page - Statistics and legislation
  1. New businesses - overview of minimum requirements
  2. Employment rights
  3. Automatic unfair dismissal
  4. Overview of recent and proposed employment legislation - Great Britain
  5. Northern Ireland employment legislation
  6. Key employment statistics
  7. Redundancy pay ready-reckoner
  8. Useful calculators for statutory rates
 

 

 

 

 
   
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