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September 2025 Newsletter

What small businesses can learn from the McDonald’s culture crisis | How to spot underperformance before it affects your bottom line | Simple ways to manage rising staff costs | Answers to your most-asked HR questions

August 2025 Newsletter

What you should be planning for September (before it gets busy) | How to handle it when someone quits in anger | Why stressed managers create stressed teams (and what to do about it) | Why one rushed redundancy just cost £24k | Plus answers to your most common HR questions

July 2025 Newsletter

Practical, low-cost ways to support your team through the cost crisis (that actually improves performance) | Why 25% of employees are hiding burnout from their managers | How minimum wage increases might be disrupting your team dynamics | And answers to your burning questions

June 2025 Newsletter

How to choose the right HR support for your business | Why employee tracking isn’t necessarily the answer to “quiet vacationing” | How HR can help to protect your business from fraud | Plus, answers to your burning HR questions.

May 2025 Newsletter

Is it possible to reduce business costs without harming productivity? | Have you checked if your business is legally protected? | Latest news and updates | Answers to some of your HR questions.

April 2025 Newsletter

6 ways that preventative HR can save you time, money and hassle | How software will spare you a huge headache | Latest news and updates | Answers to some of your HR questions.

March 2025 Newsletter

7 risks of not having an offboarding process and checklist | Important information about the National Minimum Wage increase | Latest news and updates | Answers to some of your HR questions.

February 2025 Newsletter

4 ways to make your employees love working for you | 2025 policy checklist for SMEs | Latest news and updates | Answers to some of your HR questions.

January 2025 Newsletter

Our top 10 HR areas you should be looking at for 2025 | The importance of leadership and management training this year | What’s going on in the world of HR | Answers to your burning HR questions

December 2024 Newsletter

A powerful strategic tool you should use to have the best 2025 | How you can make great decisions in 2025 using data | Answers to your burning HR questions | What’s going on in the world of HR

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3 things you should fix before they become a legal problem

Not every HR issue will turn into a legal problem. But it’s worth knowing which ones might so that you can handle them well from the start.

Statutory Sick Pay changes – what your business needs to know

The Employment Rights Bill is expected to introduce changes to Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) in the coming months. As a business owner, understanding these changes now will help you to adapt smoothly when they come into effect.

The legal requirements of employing parents

Parents make up a huge chunk of our workforce. And that’s why, as a business owner, it’s important to understand what your legal requirements are when employing parents.

Can you predict who will quit before they do?

Losing a key team member doesn’t just mean recruitment costs – it disrupts your business and inevitably slows down growth.

What is a toxic working environment?

Are your employees constantly making snarky comments, gossiping about one another and pushing the boundaries of banter? These are all telltale signs of a toxic working environment…

Must-know information for employers: protected characteristics

What are protected characteristics & what does unfair treatment look like?

Banter vs. bullying: why you need to draw a line in the sand

What happens when banter crosses the line into bullying?

Do your managers need training in 2025?

How good are your managers at managing people? The Chartered Management Institute claim that 82% of UK managers are ‘accidental managers’. This means they were promoted into a management position due to tenure or because they were good at their jobs. But this doesn’t mean they have the skills to manage people.

How to handle big changes in your business

Change is a reality for every business. And for those businesses looking to be a market leader, change should be embraced because it’s key to innovation.

What should you consider when planning redundancies in your business?

Handling redundancies in a business is never easy… In this month’s Blog, we take you through the typical steps of a redundancy process and explain how we can help.

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