What is an Employee Assistance Programme

Employee Assistance Programmes

What is an employee assistance programme? An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) offers free, confidential, independent support to help employees balance their work, family and personal lives. In the below video, Emma from Life & Progress, who provides the EAP scheme, joins Imogen from Redwing Solutions to talk about the benefits of an EAP. Topics covered are: What […]

Ideas to consider for employee wellbeing in Early Years

Ideas to consider for employee wellbeing

“If you want staff to be nurturing then you need to nurture them” Simple ideas such as a wellbeing basket (including deodorant, tampons mouthwash etc.) or anonymous staff suggestion boxes can be nice additions to a working environment. However, a deeper understanding of the importance of employee wellbeing and creating a culture where talking is […]

Working from Home – Do we think it’s here to stay?

Working from home

So, the last 12 months have been bizarre, to say the least, and the old normal has been replaced with new words, new ideas and new ways of living including many of us working from home. Just this week the Chairman of Goldman Sachs (the bank) has announced that he feels that working from home […]

Do we know the difference between an excuse and an explanation?

Excuses or explanation

Here’s a theory we’d like to explore with you, is there a difference between an excuse and an explanation? We think there is. We see this a lot in human resource management. Management ask questions of staff during informal and formal situations and sometimes we report that we’ve heard an explanation and other times we […]

What is a Risk Assessment?

Risk Assessment

There’s a lot of talk about risk assessments at the moment. Even though we stick to talking about HR on this blog, I thought you may find it useful to learn a bit more about risk assessments. Here’s a blog from Frank McCormack one of our HR Advisors. At it’s simplest, a risk assessment is […]

Struggling to sleep?

World Sleep Day

With our lives being turned upside down over the last 12 months due to the Pandemic, it’s not surprising that more of us are struggling to sleep than ever before. This year World Sleep Day is on Friday 19th March, their motto for 2021 is ‘Regular Sleep, Healthy Future’ highlighting, especially at the moment, how important […]

Are you claiming COVID SSP under the Coronavirus SSP Rebate Scheme?

COVID SSP

Many employers are claiming COVID SSP back from the HMRC under the Coronavirus Rebate Scheme. Most often it is because they have had an employee self-isolate due to Coronavirus.  You can claim for employees after you have paid them SSP, not before. There is up to 14 days (2 weeks) of COVID SSP available per […]