businesshr logo
0845 458 0563 e:info@businesshr
Home   Subscribers   Sitemap   A to Z   About us   Contact us   Our newsletters       12 May 2008
Login:
 
Lost your password ?
dotted line to divide menu
round bullet point Home
dotted line to divide menu
round bullet point About us
dotted line to divide menu
round bullet point Services
dotted line to divide menu
round bullet point PAYG documents
dotted line to divide menu
round bullet point Subscriber sitemap
dotted line to divide menu
round bullet point Our newsletters
dotted line to divide menu
round bullet point Contact us
dotted line to divide menu
round bullet point Feature:
Flexible working
dotted line to divide menu
Subscribe to services
Purchase documents
Purchase helpline time
Explore subscriber site
   
Best people practice for people in business
dotted line
 

Site map

About the site
  1. Home page
  2. Site info
    1. Access instructions
    2. About us
    3. Our team
    4. Contact us
    5. Pay as you go
    6. Subscribe
    7. Sample documents
    8. Our Company policies
    9. Login
    10. Newsletters
    11. Our partners
Topic page - recruitment
  1. Step by step recruitment
  2. How to write a job description Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  3. How to write a person specification Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  4. How to write a job advert Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  5. Step by step interviewing
  6. Competency-based interviewing Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  7. Occupational testing Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  8. How to run a simple assessment day Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  9. Step by step making a job offer
  10. Discrimination - recruitment considerations Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  11. Data Protection - recruitment and selection Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  12. Recruitment documents
Topic page - contracts and policies
  1. Employment status Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  2. Contracts of employment
  3. Changing contractual terms Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  4. Fixed-term contracts Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  5. Managing the psychological contract Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  6. Why have policies and procedures Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  7. Offer letter and contracts
    1. Offer of employment Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    2. Statement of terms and conditions of employment Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    3. Contract of employment - apprentice Paid up members only.
    4. Contract of employment - key or senior employee Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    5. Contract of employment - fixed-term Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    6. Contract of employment - jobshare Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    7. Contract of employment - homeworker Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    8. Director's service agreement Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    9. Casual agreement Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  8. Handbook
    1. Employee handbook
  9. Essential policies and procedures
    1. Absence Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    2. Bullying and harassment Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    3. Disciplinary procedure Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    4. Equal opportunity Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    5. Grievance procedure Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    6. Health and safety Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    7. Health and safety rules Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    8. IT and computer use Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    9. Maternity/adoption/paternity/parental leave Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    10. Whistle-blowing Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  10. Optional policies and agreements
    1. Business ethics Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    2. Car and vehicle Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    3. Career break and sabbaticals Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    4. Data protection Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    5. Diversity Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    6. Dress code Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    7. Driving on business Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    8. Drugs, alcohol and substance abuse Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    9. Environmental Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    10. Expenses Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    11. Fraud prevention Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    12. Homeworking Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    13. Lone workers Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    14. Mobile phone Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    15. Personal relationships at work Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    16. Recruitment and selection Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    17. Redundancy Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    18. References Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    19. Relocation Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    20. Retirement Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    21. Reward Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    22. Search Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    23. Smoking Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    24. Stress
    25. Training and development Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    26. Union partnership agreement Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    27. Work experience Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    28. Working and travelling abroad Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    29. Working with children, young people and vulnerable adults Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    30. Working with volunteers
Topic page - new starters
  1. Right to work in the UK - foreign nationals and work permits Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  2. Taking up references Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  3. Criminal records and CRB checks Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  4. Transfer of Undertakings (TUPE) Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  5. Step by step induction
  6. New starter documents Paid up members only.
Topic page - during employment
  1. Absence
    1. Handling absence due to sickness or injury Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    2. Data Protection - health monitoring Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    3. Handling absences other than sickness Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    4. Managing holidays Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    5. Working Time Regulations Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    6. Increase in statutory holidays Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    7. Absence documents Paid up members only.
  2. Consultation and communication
    1. Communication
    2. Consulting with your workers Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    3. Guide to employee consultation Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    4. Step by step employee surveys
    5. Suggestion schemes Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    6. Working with unions Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    7. Trade unions Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    8. Consultation documents Paid up members only.
  3. Discipline and misconduct
    1. Step by step discipline
    2. Disciplinary action Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    3. Poor performance Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    4. Bullying and harassment at work Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    5. Dismissal Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    6. Misconduct outside work Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    7. Dealing with theft and fraud Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    8. Data Protection - employee monitoring Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    9. Disciplinary documents Paid up members only.
  4. Discrimination and diversity
    1. Discrimination - general overview Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    2. Discrimination - age
    3. Discrimination - disability Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    4. Discrimination - race Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    5. Discrimination - religion or belief Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    6. Discrimination - sex Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    7. Discrimination - sexual orientation Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    8. Bullying and harassment at work Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    9. Diversity Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    10. Women in the workplace Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    11. Flexible working
    12. Flexible working schemes
    13. Part-time workers Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    14. Equality, diversity and flexible working documents Paid up members only.
  5. Grievances
    1. Handling grievances Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    2. Grievance documents Paid up members only.
  6. Management skills
    1. Step by step delegation
    2. Communication
    3. Motivating your team
    4. Time management
    5. Managing change Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    6. Managing the psychological contract Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    7. Stress at work Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    8. Retaining your team
    9. Succession management Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  7. Managing your workers
    1. Work-related functions Paid up members only.
    2. Personal relationships at work Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    3. Working with clients, contractors and other third parties Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    4. Working with children and vulnerable adults Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    5. Working and travelling abroad Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    6. Secondments Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  8. Managing your organisation
    1. Dealing with theft and fraud Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    2. Whistleblowing Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    3. Working with clients, contractors and other third parties Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    4. Avoiding tribunals Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    5. Crisis and contingency planning Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    6. Extreme weather conditions Paid up members only.
  9. Maternity, adoption, paternity and parental
    1. Maternity and adoption Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    2. Paternity leave Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    3. Parental leave Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    4. Time off for dependants Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    5. Maternity, adoption, paternity and parental documents Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  10. Working hours
    1. Working Time Regulations Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    2. Young persons and children Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    3. Standby and call-out arrangements Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    4. Lay-off and short-time working Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    5. Part-time workers Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    6. Flexible working
    7. Flexible working schemes
    8. Working time documents Paid up members only.
Topic page - pay and benefits
  1. Elements of a reward package
  2. Factors that influence pay levels
  3. National Minimum Wage (NMW) Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  4. How to undertake a pay review
  5. Itemised pay statements Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  6. Deductions from pay Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  7. Job evaluation Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  8. Equal pay for equal work Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  9. Equal pay audits Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  10. Sick pay Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  11. Pension schemes, particularly stakeholder pensions Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  12. Working Time Regulations Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  13. Increase in statutory holidays Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  14. Sales commission schemes Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  15. Standby and callout arrangements Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  16. Bonus schemes Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  17. Flexible (or cafeteria) benefit schemes Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  18. Childcare vouchers Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  19. Cycle to work scheme Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  20. Employee assistance programmes Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  21. Pay documents Paid up members only.
Topic page - training and development
  1. Step by step training and development
  2. Step by step appraisal
  3. 360 degree appraisal Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  4. Step by step performance development
  5. Management development Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  6. Coaching and mentoring Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  7. E-learning Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  8. Investors in People Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  9. Secondments Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  10. Apprentices Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  11. Succession management Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  12. Training and appraisal documents Paid up members only.
Topic page - health and safety
  1. Legal minimum requirements Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  2. Employment protection Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  3. Risk assessments Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  4. Safety representatives Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  5. Accident reporting and records Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  6. The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  7. The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act Paid up members only.
  8. Disabled workers - health and safety considerations Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  9. Display screen equipment (VDUs) Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  10. Drivers Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  11. Fire Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  12. First aid Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  13. Working at height Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  14. Homeworkers Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  15. Hot temperatures Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  16. Lone workers Paid up members only.
  17. Manual handling Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  18. Mobile phones Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  19. Night workers Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  20. Noise Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  21. Personal protective equipment (PPE) Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  22. Pregnant workers and women of child bearing age Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  23. Smoking Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  24. Stress at work Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  25. Vibration Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  26. Workplace violence Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  27. Further advice Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  28. Health and safety documents
Topic page - ending employment
  1. Managing leavers Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  2. Exit interviews Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  3. References Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  4. Notice periods Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  5. Dismissal Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  6. Step by step redundancy Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  7. Redundancy - legal overview Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  8. Redundancy pay - ready-reckoner Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  9. Retirement Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  10. Transfer of Undertakings Regulations (TUPE) Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  11. Death in service Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  12. Employment tribunals Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  13. Tribunal claims Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  14. Compromise agreements Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  15. Leaver and dismissal documents Paid up members only.
Topic page - non-employees
  1. Employment status Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  2. Agency workers Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  3. Work experience and unpaid placements Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  4. Working with clients, contractors and other third parties Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  5. Working with children and vulnerable adults Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  6. Criminal records and CRB checks Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  7. Volunteers Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  8. Non-employee documents Paid up members only.
Topic page - HR administration
  1. Step by step personnel files and administration
  2. Document retention - an introduction Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  3. Document retention Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  4. Data Protection Act (DPA) Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  5. Data protection - recruitment and selection Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  6. Data protection - employment records Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  7. Data protection - employee monitoring Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  8. Data protection - health monitoring Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  9. Administration documents Paid up members only.
Topic page - letters and forms
  1. Letters and forms overview
  2. Forms
    1. Application form Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    2. Appraisal form Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    3. Authority to recruit form Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    4. Bank details form Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    5. Death-in-service checklist Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    6. Employee survey
    7. Equipment issued record Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    8. Exit interview form Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    9. Expenses claim form Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    10. Flexible working requests Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    11. Holiday request form Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    12. Induction checklist Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    13. Induction plan Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    14. Interview assessment form Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    15. Job description Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    16. Leaver's checklist Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    17. Maternity, adoption, paternity and parental leave guidelines
    18. Parental leave record Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    19. Person specification Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    20. Personal details form Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    21. Personnel file checklist Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    22. Self-certification of absence form Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    23. Short-list form Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    24. Training evaluation form
    25. Training plan Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    26. Training record Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    27. Working time record Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  3. Letters and agreements
    1. Absence warning Paid up members only.
    2. Absence - unauthorised Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    3. Adoption letters Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    4. Appeal letters Paid up members only.
    5. Authorisation to make deduction from pay Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    6. Authorisation to undertake additional, outside work Paid up members only.
    7. Career break letters Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
    8. Change to contractual terms and conditions (Beta link to LF484)
    9. Compromise agreement Paid up members, or Pay as you go.