Tag Archive for Employing & managing staff

Workplace pensions and keeping staff auto enrolled

Employers face a challenge to keep their employees within their workplace pensions schemes following the increase in contributions each month. Employees must increase the contributions to their pensions as much their employers from Saturday 6 April. The increase saving could benefit employees by allowing them a much higher pension pot in retirement than they would
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Pensions auto enrolment – a basic guide for employers

Pensions auto enrolment (AE) was introduced by the Government as a way to help employees save in a tax efficient way for their retirement with the help of their employer and to reduce their reliance on the State Pension. Under AE legislation, employers have a legal obligation to automatically enrol eligible employees into a workplace
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7 hiring strategy dos and don’ts for high-growth SMEs

Hiring new staff is one of the biggest decisions you can make as an SME owner, especially if your goal is scalability or to secure funding. In my experience, choosing the right hire at the right time can be the difference between launching into space or crashing back down to earth. With this in mind,
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Ready, Steady, Brexit webinar

Six tips to help SMEs recruit, manage and keep their talent – whatever the future brings.  An increasing number of small and medium sized businesses feel that future immigration policy might affect them, and that they don’t have enough information to make post-Brexit recruitment decisions.  Our webinar, ‘Ready, Steady, Brexit’ will help you understand how Brexit might affect
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Ready, Steady, Brexit webinar

The Adecco Group’s webinar, ‘Ready, Steady, Brexit’ will help you understand how Brexit might affect your workforce, and 6 things you can be doing now to prepare despite the current uncertainty. Sign up to the Adecco Group’s Ready, Steady, Brexit webinar Date: 13 March 2019 Time: 10:30-11:10am (GMT) Presenters Chris Davis, Marketing Business Analyst, explores
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Men and women bosses both discriminate over maternity leave fears

There is little difference between male and female bosses when it comes to maternity leave discrimination in the workplace. New figures from Worksome, a business consultant matchmaking platform, shows that a quarter of male business leaders and 21% of female business leaders admit to rejecting female candidates for jobs who ‘appear’ to be of maternity
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Warning to employers not providing pensions for staff

Employers who don’t provide a pension scheme for staff face unlimited fines. The warning comes as an accounts manager who tried to hide the fact that restaurants had not given their staff workplace pensions has been ordered to pay £5,000. Bradford-based Mansoor Nasir submitted false declarations of workplace pension compliance to The Pensions Regulator (TPR
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SME business owners recognise the benefits of employee benefits

Small businesses owners and employers are looking increase the benefits they offer staff – on top of pension provision. In a move to focus on retention and recruitment 57% plan to increase benefits, with 24% planning to significantly increase their employee benefits package, according to research from insurer MetLife UK. While 33% of employers will
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Jargon buster: an employee benefits glossary

Employee benefits are a useful tool in attracting staff. According to a recent Glassdoor survey, 57% of employees ranked perks and benefits among their top considerations when hunting for a new job. Employee benefits range from blatant gimmicks to genuinely life-enhancing – and anywhere in between. To help you navigate the lingo, Steve Edgell, employee wellness expert and
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Reskillling and upskilling: the key to success in the digital revolution

The rise of technology has prompted the biggest change in work since the industrial revolution. Not only has digitalisation transformed entire sectors, it also means that the nature of the work we do is evolving faster than ever. But contrary to fears that automation will leave people without jobs, it is actually set to make
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