15 August 2017
No matter when your annual leave year ends, you can be sure there are plenty of employees with entitlement remaining. There’s always a mad rush for employees to “use it or lose it” and frustrations can set in if there isn’t enough capacity for everyone to take the time off they want.
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2 August 2017
This pro rata holiday calculator can help you determine the correct entitlement for your employees. When employees work part-time and change their working patterns part-way through a year, it can feel like you need a PhD in Advanced Mathematics to work out how to calculate the number of days holiday they’re entitled to.
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1 August 2017
Managing maternity leave can be difficult. Being without a key member of your team for up to a year can be a daunting prospect for any employer, but it can be a particularly challenging for a small business with small teams and tight resources.
Like most things in life, you’ll need a good plan to get you through. Here we cover some of the key aspects you might want to consider.
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1 August 2017
The best way to experience The Holiday Tracker during your trial is to add two users: a standard employee and a manager. You can then login as the employee, make a holiday request, then login as the manager and approve it.
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31 July 2017
As well as recording holidays, The Holiday Tracker can be used to track other types of absence, most notably sickness. Sickness absence can be added to an employee’s calendar by their manager, or an admin.
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25 July 2017
Let’s face it; people get ill. Sick leave is a factor we have to deal with in business, but we can also try to minimise its negative impact. According to a 2016 CIPD absence report, the median cost of sick leave can be as high as £835 per employee. We’ve pulled together five areas you can look at to help minimise the impact of sick leave.
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18 July 2017
Earlier this year BrewDog, the Scottish champions of craft beer, announced they are now offering one week’s paid leave to employees that adopt a puppy or rescue dog. So for this week’s blog post, we decided to delve unusual staff benefits.
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