New ‘pay ratio’ will compel businesses to explain pay gaps
UK businesses with more than 250 employees will need to explain differences in pay between their chief execs and average workers under new government plans. A metric, known as the ‘pay ratio’, will be used to monitor renumeration structures, which Business Secretary Greg Clark hopes will help bring executive pay in line with company performance. There […]
Want to transform employee behaviours to affect lasting organisational change? There’s a book for that
Best-selling Dutch business book, ‘Change 3.0, A natural approach for sustainable organisational change’, is now available in English. In her own words, the book’s co-author Wendy Nieuwland says organisational change is traditionally rooted in problem analysis and diagnosis; Change 3.0 takes the approach that organisational change is about a ‘change in collective (or employee) behaviour’. As such, […]
GDPR & Overtime – May’s Top 10 HR FAQs
Download a FREE summary to view the most popular FAQs on XpertHR in May, including questions on processing special categories of personal data under the GDPR, re-employing employees who have been dismissed for redundancy and including overtime in holiday pay. Click here to download. See how XpertHR can help your organisation save valuable time and stay […]
London HR Summit – Secure your VIP place today!
Would you like to join some of the UK’s leading HR professionals at this autumn’s London HR Summit? Taking place on September 26th at the Radisson Blu Hotel, London Stansted, it is entirely FREE for you attend and will help drive your business and your personal career forward in 2019 and beyond. Simply register here […]
Five-point plan seeks to address gender imbalance at work
A report from Timewise and Deloitte has highlighted the practical solutions needed to transform working practices perceived to exacerbate gender imbalance across the UK. The five-point action plan, A Manifesto for Change: A Modern Workplace for a Flexible Workforce, aims to enable UK businesses to bring about the change needed to address outdated working practices, and sets […]
RECOMMENDED: Insights Learning & Development
The HR Briefing shines the spotlight on Leadership Development and the companies providing these solutions… Insights Learning & Development Father and son Andi and Andy Lothian founded Insights Learning and Development in 1993 to help individuals, teams, leaders and organisations realise their full potential. Guided by the purpose to ‘create a world where people truly […]
Do you specialise in Change Management? We want to hear from you!
Each month on HR Briefing we’ll be shining the spotlight on a different part of the human resources sector – and in June we’ll be focussing on Change Management. It’s all part of our new ‘Recommended’ editorial feature, designed to help HR industry professionals find the best products and services available today. So, if you’re a supplier of Change Management […]
Add your name to a VIP guest list of senior HR professionals
Would you like to join some of the UK’s leading HR professionals at this autumn’s London HR Summit? Taking place on September 26th at the Radisson Blu Hotel, London Stansted, it is entirely FREE for you attend and will help drive your business and your personal career forward in 2019 and beyond. Simply register here […]
GDPR – 5 FAQs on retaining HR records
“How long should employers keep records relating to current and former employees and job applicants?” This is one of the questions we hear most from HR professionals – and an issue brought into sharp focus by the forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This set of FAQs look at what HR professionals need to know […]
UK workers ‘masking stress as a physical illness’
Stress (21%), anxiety (18%) and/or depression (20%) are among the real reason that UK employees call in sick – despite claiming to have a physical health problem – according to research from wellbeing provider BHSF to mark Mental Health Awareness Week (May 14th-20th). In total 42% of employees (from 1,001 full time workers surveyed) have called in sick […]