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Would YOU ask your employees to do this..?
How would you feel if you were ushered to the toilet and ordered to urinate on demand? What if you had to wait for 3 hours, outside the loo, drinking liquids because you just couldn’t go? Would you feel safe working with a colleague who came in reeking of last night’s party? Drug screening companies
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Do Your School’s HR Policies Need Updating?
The new financial year is the time to think about budgets and spending plans. April is also the time when new legislation affecting the way you manage your staff often comes into effect along with new guidelines and new rules from a variety of other sources. Many such changes will affect your school’s HR policies.
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How To Help Your Teaching Assistants Support Your School
Most teachers and head teachers will agree that teaching assistants do a great job, but can you help your teaching assistants to become even more valuable to your school? Thinking about the contributions of teaching assistants in the context of your HR strategy will help you to find ways to enable your teaching assistants to
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What Should You Include In Your Business Development Manager’s Job Description?
The role of the business development manager (BDM) in schools is changing. Whether you already have a BDM, or are thinking of hiring one, here are three questions to consider when creating or updating the BDM’s job description. With Whom Will Your BDM Interact? Thinking about the people with whom your BDM will interact will
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Pupils And Abusive Relationships: How Can HR Help?
Most school leaders are used to turning to an HR professional for guidance on contracts of employment and recruitment and selection matters. Involving HR in issues that are directly related to pupil welfare, for example, safeguarding matters, probably happens less often. However, HR has a role to play in these areas of school management, too.
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How Well Does Your School Promote Equality?
Your school is keen to promote equality. However there have been reports recently suggesting that some schools are not publishing equality information as required by legislation. Therefore, now might be the time for you to ask just how well your school promotes equality. Use the questions below to help you to review your current approach.
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Who gets the money?
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has today released its provisional results for the 2013 annual survey of Hours and Earnings. When it comes to pay review time, we are often asked what other clients are doing in relation to pay increases, bonuses and commission. We can only look at a small snap shot, but
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Interesting Interview Techniques
I could cry, but I would be wasting my tears and crying about something over which I have no control. I have just listened to a very articulate 21 year old describing the interview process he was put through by one of my old employers. Now ordinarily, I wouldn’t mind too much, but in this
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Are they really sick?
I am going to have a moan. I don’t often have a moan, but please excuse this one – it is a complaint I know many employers share. Now I do accept that people get sick. And I do accept there are times when an employee is better out of the office resting than in
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Feeling The Heat
With temperatures soaring and no sign of an end to these wonderful hot days of summer, employees and employers are both feeling the strain. For absolute clarification …… there is no legal maximum working temperature and to this point, a group of MPs now want to introduce a maximum working temperature of 30 degrees (lowered