If employers and HR really want to address the productivity costs of ill health, they need to be prioritising reducing presenteeism.
The post Are health benefits the key to removing absenteeism and presenteeism? appeared first on Personnel Today.
Staff at Marks & Spencer will be required to work Boxing Day for the first time in five years, according to documents seen by the Guardian newspaper.
The post M&S ditches automatic Boxing Day holiday for staff appeared first on Personnel Today.
Sir Mark Rowley says Met police officers displaying racist and misogynistic misconduct will be ‘put on a fast-track hearing within weeks’.
The post ‘Fast-track hearings’ for Met police misconduct appeared first on Personnel Today.
NHS Fife, the health board at the centre of a high profile tribunal involving a transgender doctor, has decreed that staff should use toilets based on their biological sex.
The post NHS Fife tells staff they must use toilets based on biological sex appeared first on Personnel Today.
Bullying and harassment still rife across creative industries, as Bectu reveals that seven in 10 women have experienced bad behaviour.
The post Creative industry tolerates bad behaviour, finds union appeared first on Personnel Today.
Not everybody handles conflict the same way. While some are confident and assertive, others might want to avoid conflict like it’s contagious. Neither of these sides of the spectrum are definitively right or wrong in their most basic sense.
Bottom line is, everyone has a conflict style.
Know Your Conflict Style
However, taking time to explore the way you personally handle...
Sometimes, things can get uncomfortable or awkward at work. But to cross the line into illegal harassment, there needs to be something more: what the law calls “severe or pervasive” negative conduct or behavior.
In a recent case from eastern Pennsylvania, a federal district court ruled that a supervisor’s whisper into a subordinate’s ear, though uncomfortable, did not rise to...
Alice Burks, Director of People Success at Deel, examines how workplaces have evolved, with hybrid and remote models now central to how businesses operate.
The post Streamlining HR for Hybrid Teams the Deel Way: A Compliance-First Approach appeared first on Personnel Today.
When managers see an employee do something wrong, their instinct is often to call out the behavior and correct it immediately.
Unless the employee has done something egregiously offensive, pointing out the mistake can turn into a good coaching opportunity.
Correct an Employee with Clarity
But if you correct an employee with the wrong approach, you risk demoralizing them and getting a...
Sometimes, the payment of bonuses is at the discretion of the employer. But at other times, bonus payments are required under the terms of an applicable employment agreement. When that is the case – and the bonuses aren’t paid – employers can find themselves in some pretty serious trouble.
A case from South Carolina shows just how costly it can...
Officers in the Met Police could have to declare if they are a Freemason after the force launched a consultation on the proposal.
The post Met police officers may have to declare Freemason ties appeared first on Personnel Today.
