Document Saga Rolls On

July 17, 2008

The saga of the document checks rolls on, with no signs of abating.
 
Today there seemed to be a coordinated effort by a few employees to constantly email me protesting about the planned checks.
 
As much as I tried to ignore them, I quite like a good argument so couldn't resist putting my factual point of view across...

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 HR Hartley blogged this on July 17, 2008 5:10 PM
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Internal Barriers to Document Checks

July 15, 2008

The last couple of days at work have been 2 of the most frustrating that I have had to endure since starting with the company.
 
As we are due to apply for a sponsership licence so that we can continue to bring skilled immigrant workers in to the company, we are trying to get our 'house in order' with regard to the checks that we should be doing as an employer.
 
After years of neglect from the previous HR administration, it's a fairly sizeable task. In order to avoid any discrimination, we are obviously asking to see the appropriate documents from all employees, regardless of nationality.
 
It's here that our problem lies.

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 HR Hartley blogged this on July 15, 2008 5:25 PM
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The Truth Comes Out

July 9, 2008

A couple of weeks ago, a junior member of our department left for pastures new.
 
At the time, we were all fairly sorry to see her go as she seemed to be good at what she was doing and generally a very popular character.
 
As it turns out, she was exceptionally good at what she was doing... not an awful lot and then covering it up.

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 HR Hartley blogged this on July 9, 2008 9:25 AM
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HR taking the lead in cutbacks

July 4, 2008

As reported last week, the current economic climate has started to have implications at work.
 
Firstly we were told that recruitment was indefinitely on hold, and now every department has been told to come up with measures to save 3% on their budget for this financial year.

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 HR Hartley blogged this on July 4, 2008 12:03 PM
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Employee Opinion Survey Results: Already Proving Useful?

July 1, 2008

After some intensive inputting all of the results of our employee opinion survey are now logged.

The analysis will be done over the next week, but it's fair to say that some problems have already been identified.

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 HR Hartley blogged this on July 1, 2008 5:24 PM
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Contract Renegotiation: Not for the Faint Hearted

June 27, 2008

I've had a fun morning renegotiating a contract with an external labour provider.
 
These things are never easy, but they can be very rewarding and fun in there own special way, and today was certainly no exception.

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 HR Hartley blogged this on June 27, 2008 12:15 PM
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The Opinion Survey Feedback starts to flood in...

June 26, 2008

With only a week to go before the deadline to hand in responses to our opinion survey, the responses are starting to flood in.
 
Many have provided some potentially useful feedback, and we have already started throwing ideas around to deal with some of the issues that have been raised.
 
Some responses, inevitably, have not been quite so helpful...

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 HR Hartley blogged this on June 26, 2008 4:15 PM
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Hard Times Ahead? The 'Credit Crunch' leads to a recruitment freeze

June 23, 2008

Despite a record year in terms of financial performance, all is not well here.
 
As with many companies, the global credit crunch is starting to have an effect.
 
As of today, we've been 'unofficially' informed that no recruitment will be sanctioned for the foreseeable future, as a downturn in sales is underway.

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 HR Hartley blogged this on June 23, 2008 4:38 PM
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A Great Excuse for Non-Notification of Absence

June 19, 2008

I had to sit down with a young gentleman today who had broken company rules regarding notifying us whilst absent.
 
He had been off for a week, and only called in on the Thursday, when he should have called in every day (the only reason he called on the Thursday was because we had phoned him on the Wednesday).
 
The purpose of the meeting was to establish whether there was a valid reason that may mitigate any potential disciplinary action, but it quickly became apparent that there was not.

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 HR Hartley blogged this on June 19, 2008 5:27 PM
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Employee Satisfaction Surveys: More Trouble Than They're Worth?

June 17, 2008

It's that time of year when our Employee Satisfaction Survey is unleashed upon our employees.

The yearly ritual of handing out these surveys and then ignoring what comes back on them is getting somewhat tiresome, but there is always the slim hope that this year will be different.

However, given the response to our notice that the survey will be out this week, I hold out little hope of that...

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 HR Hartley blogged this on June 17, 2008 7:21 PM
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