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Winter and the Workplace

Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows. Why he left his home in the South to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows. If you've never read Robert W. Service's " The Cremation of Sam McGee ", here's a...

Published 17 Jan 2013 2:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: health and safety, usa, weather, safety
'We're all in this together': Cooperation and the Queensland floods

I'd like to urge all XpertHR readers to check out an excellent new blog post from Melbourne-based blogger Aaron Dodd of Mindset on the cooperative spirit that is currently being demonstrated in response to the devastating flooding in Queensland, Australia...

Published 13 Jan 2011 7:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: hr policy and strategy, weather, HR, australia, flooding, queensland
Winter issues affecting employers

During the run-up to Christmas, the winter weather (see the BBC and Met Office websites) is not the only concern for employers. Avoiding the problems that can arise from the work Christmas party and dealing with competing requests for holiday from employees...

Published 1 Dec 2010 7:01 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: employee rights, holiday, weather, christmas
The view from XpertHR Towers...

Strictly speaking this is 14 floors above the XpertHR editorial offices. The picture shows south west London still in the grip of snow and with the threat of more to come as the weather continues to cause high levels of employee absence. Read More...

Published 8 Jan 2010 1:01 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: xperthr, information sources, absence, weather, snow
Pay freezes as snow thaws

You might be finding the journey into work a little easier this week, but an increasing number of employees are hitting a severe cold front as they enter their offices. Read More...

Published 16 Feb 2009 4:40 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay awards, weather, irs, pay freeze
NHS takes steps to monitor employees' physical activity

NHS Stoke on Trent has launched the unlikely health initiative of issuing pedometers to 7,000 workers, in a bid to identify which staff are most at risk of falling ill because of their lifestyles. Read More...

Published 5 Feb 2009 8:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: employee health, health and safety, sickness, weather
Bosses urged not to dock pay of snowbound workers

Unlike the BBC (whose egregious nonsense on this issue I wrote about yesterday), the TUC understands that employers can legally dock the pay of snowbound workers who cannot get to work - but not surprisingly urges them not to do so. Read More...

Published 4 Feb 2009 9:09 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, weather, deductions from pay
Employee rights and snow chaos

More egregious tosh from the mainstream media on employment matters, this time from the BBC in a piece called Snow chaos and your rights . Read More...

Published 3 Feb 2009 4:24 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, weather, deductions from pay
UK employers count the snowballing cost of snow day

With some parts of the UK now slowly beginning to thaw from the effects of yesterday's epic snowfall, a number of commentators have weighed in with their views of just how dearly the disruption to businesses will cost the UK economy. Read More...

Published 3 Feb 2009 12:00 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay awards, economics, weather
Working in a winter wonderland

With most of the UK beset by extremely heavy snowfall (on the BBC website) today, here is a timely reminder that XpertHR offers handy content for those those dealing with the workplace impact of severe weather conditions. Read More...

Published 2 Feb 2009 9:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: hr policy and strategy, weather, hr policy
Can retail pay hold up in the current gloom?

As we emerge from the gloomiest August since 1992 (in meteorological terms) (external website), the UK's retail sector has been handed its gloomiest bill of health for a quarter of a century (in high street sales terms). But what impact will this...

Published 1 Sep 2008 11:35 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay rates, pay and benefits, economics, retail sector, weather

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