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Workplace policies to help you protect your assets
Policies that should help to protect your physical property, intellectual property, branding, reputation, and image.
Training and performance management policies
Implement training policies and appraisal systems to encourage and develop the skills of your employees.
Writing and communicating staff policies
How to create staff policies and communicate them to your staff.
Managing personal relationships at work
Issues to consider on intimate personal or family relationships in the workplace.
Pay, rewards and benefits policies
Setting the right pay rates for your employees and establishing policies around rewards and benefits.
Anti-bribery policies
How to set up anti-bribery policies, and when your business may require them.
Contractual issues and dismissal in relation to sick pay and sickness
Overpayment of sick pay and how to deal with dismissals for long-term sickness absence.
Earnings-related qualification for statutory sick pay
How eligibility for SSP depends on an employee's average weekly earnings during a specified period.
What is statutory sick pay and who is entitled to it?
Employers' responsibilities to pay statutory sick pay to eligible employees and where to get further information.
Statutory sick pay forms and record-keeping
Employer forms for statutory sick pay including self-certification forms and keeping records of sickness absence.
When to start and stop statutory sick pay
How to define when you start and stop payment of statutory sick pay.
Alternatives to paying statutory sick pay
What occupational sick pay schemes must offer.
Calculate statutory sick pay
Work out how much statutory sick pay to pay employees who qualify for it.
Flexible working: the law and best practice
The law surrounding flexible working requests, the eligibility criteria and how to respond to a flexible working application.
The right to request flexible working: eligibility criteria
Who qualifies for the right to make a flexible working request and what are the types of requests.
Considering flexible working requests
Responding to an employee's flexible working request and arranging a meeting to discuss it.
Advantages of flexible working
The advantages for your business when introducing a flexible working policy.
Deciding on your successful job candidate
Selecting the most suitable candidate for a job and contacting unsuccessful applicants.
Advantages of job inductions
Job induction training can help maximise motivation and understanding of the work for a new employee.
Fruit and vegetable processing water efficiency
Strategies for reducing water and liquid waste costs in fruit and vegetable processing businesses.