by Caroline Robertson | Oct 18, 2022 | ActifHR Blog
It’s an employee market at the moment with people able to choose where and when they work. This has a knock-on effect for businesses who are struggling to retain their talent. To counteract this, many organisations are looking at different ways to retain talent...
by Caroline Robertson | Sep 29, 2022 | ActifHR Blog
A Supreme Court decision taken last month means UK’s part-year workers are now entitled to receive full paid annual leave, which equates to 5.6 weeks’ annual holiday. Essentially the ruling found an employee’s holiday entitlement should not be affected by how many...
by Caroline Robertson | Jul 12, 2022 | ActifHR Blog
We’ve all heard about the great resignation, but did you know that there is another worrying trend currently happening in the UK? According to figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS), a record number of women aged over 50 are retiring earlier than...
by Caroline Robertson | Jun 13, 2022 | ActifHR Blog
In recent years there have been many changes to employment law and HR best practice has also shifted massively since Brexit and the pandemic. That’s why we recommend you review your employment contracts every 1-2 years, particularly if you have older contracts that...
by Caroline Robertson | May 4, 2022 | ActifHR Blog
Unconscious bias is when we make judgments or decisions based on our prior experience, beliefs, views, associations, thought patterns, judgements or interpretations, and we are not aware that we are doing it. In the workplace, this can result in managers: Making...
by Caroline Robertson | Apr 5, 2022 | ActifHR Blog
The pandemic brought big changes to how we work, the biggest of which was the rise in remote working. During the first lockdown companies transitioned from a mostly office-centric culture to embrace more flexible ways of working. In May 2020 for example, more than 60%...
