Calculating Holidays for Term Time Only Staff in Early Years

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Is it reasonable for staff to remove cat poo?

Here’s an interesting question.  Is it reasonable for staff to remove cat poo from the garden of a day nursery, pre school or club that they find on their daily pre use inspection? It’s at this point I would normally say it depends what’s on your job description. However I doubt we would have ever thought […]

Should I offer subsidised childcare for my staff?

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One of the benefits that an employer in Early Years can offer its staff, that very few employers can offer, is free or subsidised childcare, Whilst it can be very tempting to offer free or subsidised childcare for the staff. There are couple of issues to think about before introducing this: 1. Have you checked with […]

“She wants to bring her Dad into the Disciplinary”

From time to time, when you need to undertake a Disciplinary Hearing with a member of staff, you will be asked if they can bring someone in that is different from the work colleague or trade union representative that is covered under an employee’s right to accompaniment. This may come about in a number of […]

“I can’t believe she’s done that!”

This week’s blog is about what happens when a member of staff leaves without giving you the notice in the contract of employment. If this hasn’t happened to you yet, I am sorry to say that there is a very chance that it will happen one day, that or you don’t employ anyone! There’s many reasons […]

How do I deal with borderline aggressive staff?

At work, there will be times when you hire someone with qualities such as: being able to lead the team make decisions handle difficulties and they then turn out to be borderline aggressive. You wanted confidence, what you appointed was aggression.  But they were fine at interview. At interview they wanted to put across how useful they […]

Should I use exit interviews when my staff leave?

When someone leaves your employment it is a very good idea if you can have an exit interview with them. That’s not always going to be possible.  After all not all leavers are voluntary! Where someone is resigning from the employer, where they are giving you notice of their leaving, you should ask them to […]