If you’re a small business without HR support or you need more detailed HR information to enable you to manage and develop your people effectively, then look no further than HR Star Membership. The new offering is an all-in-one subscription that will cover your HR needs, give you specific solutions for your people issues, while…

Probationary periods give the employer time to ensure they have recruited the right person for the role, and it also allows the employee to settle in to the job, company and surroundings and decide if they too, feel it is the right fit for them. Taking the time to look back on the recruit’s progress…

Over the recent months, the workplace we once knew has changed significantly with COVID-19 and the introduction of furlough and a substantial increase of employees working remotely. One of the ongoing challenges is how to measure employee performance during this altered work environment and how to approach reviewing and resetting performance goals and KPIs. With…

At HR Star we pride ourselves in being able to provide solutions to problems for our clients. Quite often, a prospective client will contact us with a challenge they’re facing and will ask us simply to ‘fix it’. With business owners concerned about following employment legislation and correct procedure, they will look to us for…

Losing people from your business is hard enough at the best of times but when the world has been rocked by a global pandemic and the associated fallout, well, it’s a lot more difficult. Managing the process of staff redundancies is a hugely stressful time for all concerned. Redundancies impact upon people’s emotions, finances, their…

It’s no easy feat to achieve high employee morale. It takes more than a salary to ensure that employees are motivated and engaged, and during COVID-19 employers have faced different challenges to maintain employee morale. The good news is that after the first six weeks of lockdown, one in three HR professionals believed that employee…