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…

Employment law is what regulates your relationship as Employers with your employees. They are overarching laws that govern what you as Employers can expect from your employees. In addition, it stipulates what you as an Employer can ask an employee to do, and what rights do your employees have in the workplace. As it currently…

‘’Often we look so long at the closed door we do not see the one that has been opened for us’  Helen Keller  Further to Rishi Sunak’s Summer statement issued last week we now know that there will be no plans to extend the Furlough scheme any more than has already been done so. It…

‘’Hiring the right people takes time, the rights questions, and a healthy does of curiosity’’   Richard Branson. As we slowly emerge from the lockdown and start to enter our new normal businesses are evaluating and addressing what is most important to get back up and running. Customer needs have shifted, and roles are being reviewed…

The redundancy process is one that must be handled with great care and sensitivity.  Your people will have already experienced great change over these last few months whether that be working from home, home schooling, bereavements, furlough, loss of perceived freedoms to name a few. To then be faced with a redundancy situation, although the…