People Management Skills
Our suite of People Management Skills training will help to improve staff performance, enhance skills and get all-round better results from your workforce. We review and update our courses annually to ensure that they stay relevant and legally compliant. Managing Performance Appraisal Skills Managing Performance Coaching for Results Leading and Managing Managing Teams Leading Change […]
HR Skills
Our courses have been specifically designed with the aim of improving your organisation’s HR skills and helping you to achieve a high level of operational performance. Our courses are reviewed and updated annually to ensure that they stay relevant and legally compliant. Management Training Courses Equality & Inclusion Effective Appraisal Skills Disciplinary & Grievance Managing […]
Redundancy Management
On-site Interview Support
Interviews are still the best way of finding out whether or not a candidate will be the right fit for your organisation – as long as you ask the right questions. On-Site Interview Support places an experienced HR professional alongside your recruitment manager to ensure that you ask the right questions and hire the best […]
Executive Search
Sometimes you can’t rely on job sites to find the calibre of person that you need. This is where Executive Search from HR Solutions can help. We work with our clients to understand their business, their structure and the responsibilities that the new executive will assume. By identifying the skills and experiences that you are […]
Employee Benefits
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New English language requirements for public sector workers
Later this month, new English language requirements will come into force for public sector workers in customer facing jobs. From 21 November, public sector organisations must ensure that all of their employees who work in public facing roles are able to speak fluent English (English or Welsh if in Wales) under the Immigration Act 2016. […]
What will happen to the BHS employees?
BHS went into Administration on the 25th April 2016. Administration is an insolvency process (when a company does not have enough to pay what it owes to its creditors), usually lasting a year and is an option when, for example, it’s possible to “rescue” the company as a “going concern”. What does it mean for […]
Voluntary Redundancy: Don’t Consider Age a Factor, Rules EAT
Taking age-related benefits into account during redundancy selections can be discrimination, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled. The case of Donkor v Royal Bank of Scotland concerned an employee who was not allowed to apply for voluntary redundancy on the grounds of his age. As the claimant was over 50 at the time […]
Employee prosecuted for taking client data to new job
A former employee of a waste management company has been fined for taking client data with him to his new job. An employee may have spent a long time building and nurturing a list of client contacts. When they leave their job, they may think that this list should naturally move with them. After all, […]
Monitoring Private Emails at Work: What You Need to Know
The European Court has reaffirmed that employers can read private emails and chat messages sent by employees. The ruling has caused a media panic that employers can now ‘snoop’ on their employees, although this is far from the case. Furthermore, given previous UK Employment Tribunals, very little has actually changed. Regardless, with the case generating […]
Unique Employee Benefits
When job hunting, what first attracts people to a company? Salary is likely to be the first thing. But job hunters are now taking more notice of what potential employers are offering besides the usual pay rates. Employers have begun to recognise this and started to put together packages, offering their staff increasingly imaginative employee […]
Best UK Jobs for 2016 Revealed
Employer review website Glassdoor has revealed their list of the 25 best jobs in the UK for the year ahead. Glassdoor identifies the most desirable jobs in the country based on three factors: earning potential, career opportunities and job availability. This is the second such annual survey by the site. Management roles made up eight of the […]
Do applicants still need degrees for graduate jobs?
Graduate job seekers who may not have made the grade at university, could still have a good chance of getting the job of their dreams after four big employers made significant changes to their academic entry requirements. Ernst Young Accountancy firm Ernst & Young is the fifth largest graduate recruiter in the UK. Last […]
Women Aiming for Quicker Career Success
Women want to achieve career success faster than men, according to a study by recruitment agency Reed. 48% of women are aiming to reach their career goal by the age of 40. Over three out of five men stated that they were happy to wait until after that age to hit their career targets. Further to […]
Auto-enrolment update
A recent auto-enrolment update from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has predicted that by 2020, £17bn a year will have been put into workplace pension schemes as a result of auto-enrolment. It also predicted that just over 10 million workers will be saving more money than they would have done previously, even outside […]
DWP Criticised for Disability Discrimination
The Department of Work and Pensions has come under fire from its staff, accusing it of disability discrimination. The latest staff survey has seen over 1,400 DWP civil servants claim incidences of bullying and harassment taking place at work, because of disability. These figures are up from more than 1,000 that was reported the previous […]
Blue Monday in the Workplace
Whether a touch of the blues or something more serious, January can be hard on your workforce. ‘Blue Monday’, the so-called most depressing day of the year, is coming up next week. This is the day where the weather, personal debt, and the time since the Christmas holidays all combine into an amalgamation of disappointment […]
A game changer for making recruitment decisions
In the battle to hire the best talent, many employers are looking at new ways of recruiting, but could a smartphone game help them to make their recruitment decisions? As more employers are expanding their recruitment to include school leavers and people with less traditional qualifications, they are looking for other ways to select […]
A fifth of UK workers expect to retire after 70
New research has revealed that over a fifth of UK employees expect to retire in their seventies and also have higher stress levels. Not only that, they are also less healthy and more stressed than employees who are hoping to retire sooner. 1,895 UK employees were interviewed for the Global Benefits Attitudes Survey, conducted […]