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Meetings, Meetings and More Meetings
9th Mar 2019Business, Employee Engagement, Human Resources, Leadership
Most meetings fail to get going from the start. The group is kept waiting for people to arrive. Others want to keep chatting about "important" but unrelated topics. The dreaded "since I have you here" move that turns the...
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When is Notice of Dismissal Effective?
9th Nov 2018Absence Management, Employment Law, Human Resources, Recruitment
An employee was given notice of redundancy but was on holiday when the letter arrived. There was a significant difference in her pension entitlement between leaving at age 49 and age 50 – which everyone...
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Mental Health and Well-Being at Work
9th Nov 2018Absence Management, Employee Benefits, Employee Engagement, Employment Law, Human Resources, Training
Mental health problems are common, experienced by up to one in four of the population. Problems are often hidden, stigma is still widespread and many people do not receive adequate support from services. Mental health...
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A Budget for Hard-Working Families – the Strivers, Grafters and Carers….
30th Oct 2018Business, Employment Law, Human Resources
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond’s opening statement which was greeted by laughter in the House with the claim that it will “pave the way for a brighter future”. With talk of the economy and...
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Giving Notice To Leave A Job is Not Always A Letter Of Resignation
22nd Oct 2018Employee Engagement, Employment Law, Human Resources
A letter that gives one month’s notice should not automatically be interpreted as a letter of resignation, an employment appeal tribunal judgment has confirmed. The Facts The claimant, Mrs Levy, was employed in the Records...
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How has MAD-HR made a difference to your business?
3rd Sep 2018Business, Human Resources
We like to let our customers speak for us when it comes to our services so when John Jackaman from Infusions Ltd gave us feedback about our HR toolkit we wanted to share it with EVERYONE....
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Is a Four-Day Week Practical?
3rd Sep 2018Business, Human Resources
We're very lucky to be well known in our region as one of the go-to HR service providers, and our Director Carole Burman was happy to help answer The Big Question in a recent edition...
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Planning for Paternity
15th Aug 2018Employee Engagement, Employment Law, Human Resources
Why Less Men Are Taking Leave…And What Employers Need to Know When you’re male employee skips into work after the summer holidays and proudly proclaims he’s going to be a Daddy, do you: A –...
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When The Temperatures Climb, The Responsibilities Soar
25th Jul 2018Employee Benefits, Employee Engagement, Human Resources, Leadership
We can plan for all kinds of scenarios as HR advisors. We’re often waiting like a coiled spring for the next recruitment wave for one of our clients, or their sudden requirement on a tricky...
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Is the MAD-HR Toolkit right for your business?
25th Jul 2018Employee Benefits, Human Resources, Recruitment, Training
We like to let our customers speak for us when it comes to our services so when John Jackaman from Infusions Ltd gave us feedback about our HR toolkit we wanted to share it with EVERYONE....
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Lessons In Management From Southgate
16th Jul 2018Business, Employee Engagement, Human Resources, Leadership, Training
One of our clients recently invited us to a celebration for an employee who’d been with them 20 years. Perhaps not a long time, when compared with the 35-plus years for which some staff used...
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What do the new GCSE grades mean?
16th Jul 2018Human Resources, Leadership, Recruitment, Training
If you employ school leavers or apprentices, you’ll begin notice a difference on CV’s coming across your desk soon. If you’re not already aware, the GCSE grading system had an overhaul beginning in 2017 which...
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When Football Comes Home Does That Mean Your Staff Will Stay Home Too?
11th Jul 2018Employee Benefits, Employee Engagement, Employment Law, Human Resources
Absenteeism after World Cup matches is well known phenomenon and has historically cost British businesses millions. So what about this year? How has this affected you? Gareth Southgate has been turning us on with his...
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Summertime and Retention Protection
9th Jul 2018Employee Engagement, Human Resources, Leadership, Recruitment
What’s more infectious than a common cold in the workplace? What’s likely to set the jungle-drums of workplace gossip on fire more so than when the guy from sales disappeared with the woman from finance...
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Contractor, Worker, Employee? What Does the Pimlico Case Mean?
3rd Jul 2018Business, Change Management, Employment Law, Human Resources, Recruitment
Every so often, a case hits the media which immediately sets the phone ringing and the emails hitting the MAD inbox. The latest? Pimlico Plumbers. In case you’ve not followed the headlines and the ruling,...
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Why You Should Choose MAD-HR!
25th Jun 2018Human Resources, Leadership, Recruitment, Uncategorised
A (Moving) Picture Speaks Louder Than Words We're very lucky to have lots of wonderful clients in our MAD-HR crowd. We know HR is not the easiest topic for business people to open up about, there...
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What’s the Solution to Finding and Keeping the Best Talent?
10th Jun 2018Business, Change Management, Employee Benefits, Employee Engagement, Employment Law, Human Resources, Leadership, Recruitment, Training
If I could name one question which gets asked of me most among new and existing clients, it’s along the lines of ‘how do I find and keep the best talent?’ As consultants in the...
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Succession Planning & Talent Spotting are the Key to Diversity
5th Jun 2018Employee Engagement, Employment Law, Human Resources, Leadership, Recruitment, Training
For our latest blog, MAD-HR founder Carole Burman discusses talent-spotting, board diversity, and succession planning. Last week saw reaction travel far and wide, over a new report which revealed major companies had some pretty dire...
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Managing the World Cup 2018 and potential disruption
17th May 2018Absence Management, Employee Engagement, Human Resources
The FIFA World Cup is due to start on 14th June, with 60 matches being played in Russia over the course of a four weeks before the final on 15th July. With some matches taking...
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When does the notice start from?
27th Apr 2018Employment Law, Human Resources, Payroll
An NHS worker sent a redundancy notice when she was on holiday abroad has won her case at the Supreme Court. The High Court and Appeal Court had upheld Sandi Haywood's claim that notice began...
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