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Summertime, and the Dress Codes Aren't Easy

XpertHR - Employment Intelligence — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:00:00 GMT

With warm summer days around the corner and employees breaking out the short sleeve shirts and, in some cases, tank tops, sandals and flip flops and inevitably showing more skin, employers may need to start thinking about implementing a summer dress code...(read more)

#HRTells 2: If you work in HR, are you 'only HR'?

XpertHR - Employment Intelligence — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:55:00 GMT

What are the dead giveaways that you work in HR? What are your HR tells ? I published a blog post on this topic a week ago ( What are your HR Tells? You know you work in HR when... ). I'm delighted to report that there has been an amazing response...(read more)

Ten interesting facts about Canadian employment law

XpertHR - Employment Intelligence — Fri, 24 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT

How are employment matters regulated in Canada given its significant size? In the event of a transfer of a business, do the employment relationships of the employees transfer to the new owner? How easy is it to terminate an employee's employment contract...(read more)

A five-step approach to managing long-term sickness absence

XpertHR - Employment Intelligence — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:17:00 GMT

Do you have an employee on long-term sickness absence in your organisation? Have you ever struggled to implement an employee's return to work when the medical advice is that he or she is fit to return? Getting the sickness-absence basics right could...(read more)

Do employee opinion surveys drive employee engagement?

XpertHR - Employment Intelligence — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:52:22 GMT

In April 2013 I wrote a post, "Employee engagement surveys are dead, long live social media?" on this blog about a survey by Silverman Research for the CIPD which suggested that social media could fulfill some of the objectives of employee opinion...(read more)

UK economy grew by 0.3% in Q1 2013, revised GDP estimates show

XpertHR - Employment Intelligence — Thu, 23 May 2013 09:30:00 GMT

The risk of a triple-dip recession may have passed (for now at least), but economic growth remains weak at best. UK economy grew by 0.3% in Q1 2013, latest revised estimates reveal Gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.3% during the first quarter of...(read more)

What's the best way to 'sell' social media to HR?

XpertHR - Employment Intelligence — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:30:00 GMT

What's the best way to 'sell' social media to HR? There're so many positives that can come from using social media in the workplace (if it's done right and done well). So what's the best way to convince HR of the benefits of social...(read more)

Falling employee engagement? Stop seeing staff as peas in a pod

XpertHR - Employment Intelligence — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:47:34 GMT

A number of surveys, conferences and webinars in the past week on employee engagement and talent management shed some light on how to approach these central HR responsibilities. My key take away points are: Aggregated employee engagement data (some employee...(read more)

Lessons for line managers on giving feedback to employees

XpertHR - Employment Intelligence — Wed, 22 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT

Feedback. We know it's important to employee engagement. We know it can help to address poor performance before it becomes a capability issue. Yet many line managers are not doing it often enough or well enough. Why? Lack of time is one reason given...(read more)

The land where discrimination is still lawful

XpertHR - Employment Intelligence — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:14:54 GMT

Living in the UK, you're more likely to overhear someone complaining that an employee who suffered discrimination in the workplace received an excessive or ridiculous pay out than someone bemoaning the absence of discrimination laws in the workplace...(read more)

My 10 top HR tweets (21 May 2013 edition)

XpertHR - Employment Intelligence — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT

I am proud to present the third post in my irregular series compiling the tweet-length morsels of HR wit, wisdom and provocation. Out of sheer necessity, this list is extremely selective, as it has to be limited to tweets from people I follow, and that...(read more)

Performance-related pay survey open: take part by 13 June

XpertHR - Employment Intelligence — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:25:37 GMT

Linking pay awards to an assessment of the performance of individual employees remains a popular reward strategy. However, unless performance-related pay schemes are carefully designed and implemented, they do not always meet their objectives. XpertHR...(read more)

UK GDP forecasts round-up May 2013: Are we looking at a 'lost decade' of growth?

XpertHR - Employment Intelligence — Mon, 20 May 2013 07:00:01 GMT

The UK has successfully avoided a triple-dip recession . Yet "the UK risks enduring a 'lost decade of growth', while many of its economic rivals forge ahead." This is according to TUC analysis of latest IMF growth projections. Here we...(read more)

Does HR share the blame for corporate wrongdoing?

XpertHR - Employment Intelligence — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:46:37 GMT

Trust in senior executives in multinational companies could take another major knock if theraids this week on the company offices of oil giants BP and Shell by the European Commission result in prosecutions. The raids were over suspicions that executives...(read more)

#HRTells: You know you work in HR when...

XpertHR - Employment Intelligence — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT

What's the surest sign that you work in HR? What does HR know that other people don't? You know you work in HR when...? I'd love to get your input on the above! Please get in touch with details of your surest HR giveaways (or should we call...(read more)