Category Archives: Business

IR35 – What is it and how does it affect my business?

Changes to IR35 legislation applying to the private sector will now take effect from April 2021 Is this something you need to plan for or not?   This legislation has been in the Public Sector for some time and was due to be introduced into the private sector this year but was delayed by Coronavirus.  […]

Preparing for Home-Based Working

Preparing for Home-Based Working Before Covid-19, the concept of Home Working tended to be more of an ‘exception’ rather than a ‘rule’.  Certainly, when I was based in an office, I was able to ‘work from home’ occasionally but it never became the ‘norm’.  Maybe that was because we just got used to going into […]

Redundancy – A Short Guide for Employers

REDUNDANCY Since March 2020 when our world at work completely changed courtesy of Covid-19, the topic that seems to be top of the list of queries at the moment is, sadly, Redundancy. I wish it was a more positive topic to discuss but now that we are getting to the end of the timescale for […]

EMAILS CAN BITE YOU BACK!

  What are your Managers putting in their emails about your employees? This TALE is about a sex discrimination claim that nearly went very wrong for an employer because of the contents of an email. THIS IS A TRUE STORY A client had been running a successful small business for many years. ‘Banter’, general ‘fooling […]