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Understanding legal issues around maternity leave
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A member of my sales staff, who has been with the company for five years now, has recently developed an off-hand manner when asked to go for...
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Last year was incredibly tough and I was forced to make a series of redundancies on two separate occasions. While it was necessary in both c...
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I have created a new position in my company and have an existing employee in mind for it. I haven’t formally advertised the position, but it...
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I run a medium-sized hosting and outsourcing firm that has traditionally run a small graduate recruitment programme. In previous years, the...
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The most important factor affecting my company’s performance is the quality of my key players. However, I have never felt that I was that good at recruitment. Although I have retai...
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I made some employees redundant for the first time recently, and it was a tough experience. However, we are predicting fewer sales this year, so we had to prepare for it. I don’t w...
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I am considering ways to encourage staff to stay with the business and looking at benefits in general. I have a few senior staff I really want to keep and junior members who could...
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Some of my best salespeople are moving into management roles, but are finding it difficult being more motivational and team-driven. At the same time, making sales is a harder job t...
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My building company has been going for 10 years and has been a good business, but we’ve had a tough year. I have, so far, avoided losing any permanent staff, as I typically use a l...
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My technology business has been through a period of incubation and, with major investment on the way, I am looking to bring in strong staff to drive it forward. I am convinced my p...
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I have had a lot of staff churn recently and am spending more time than usual recruiting. I questioned out loud why this was the case and one staff member suggested it was “all wor...