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KEY DOCUMENTS
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Employee handbook
Offer of employment
Health and safety policy
Contracts of employment
Key statistics
Recent/forthcoming legislation
POLICIES AND HANDBOOKS
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Absence and sick pay
Additional work
Bullying and harassment
Business ethics
Business gifts and hospitality policy
Career break
Car and vehicle
Data protection
Disciplinary procedure
Diversity
Dress code
Drivers handbook
Driving on business
Drugs, alcohol and substance abuse
Environmental
Equal opportunity
Expenses
Extended leave
Fraud prevention
Grievance procedure
Health and safety policy
Health and safety rules
Homeworking
IT
Lone workers
Maternity and parental leave
Mobile phone
Personal relationships at work
Recruitment
Redundancy
References
Relocation
Retirement
Reward
Search
Smoking
Stress
Training and development
Union recognition agreement
Whistleblowing
Work experience
Working and travelling abroad
Working with children, young
people and vulnerable adults
Working with volunteers
Work-related functions and events
FORMS
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Absence record
Adoption checklist
Application
Appraisal
Appraisal preparation
Authority to recruit
Authority to make pay deduction
Bank details
Data access request
Death in service checklist
Equipment issued form
Exit interview
Expenses
Flexible working request
Holiday requests
Homeworking induction checklist
Induction checklist
Induction plan
Interview assessment
Interview expenses
Job description
Leaver's checklist
Leaver's report
Maternity checklist
Maternity & parental leave guide
Parental leave record
Personnel file checklist
Person specification
Personal Details Form
Redundancy forms
Retirement letters and forms
Self-certification of absence
Shortlist form
Time to train request form
Training evaluation form
Training plan
Training record
Working Time record
RECRUITMENT LETTERS
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Acknowledge speculative application
Holding letter
Invite to interview
Invite to 2nd interview
Offer of employment
Reference request: employer
Reference request: education
Reference request: personal
Turn-down: not shortlisted
Turn-down: after interview
LETTERS
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Also see RECRUITMENT above
Absence warning
Absence - unauthorised
Additional, outside work agreement
Adoption letters
Appeal letters
Career breaks
Change contract letter
Compromise agreement
Confidential disclosure agreement
Disciplinary: invite to meeting
Disciplinary warnings
Dismissal - conduct or capability
Dismissal: ill-health
Dismissal: expiry of fixed-term contract
Dismissal: some other substantial reason
Employee survey
First day reporting
Flexible working requests
Grievance hearings
Harassment - acknowledge allegation
Jury service - confirm details
Layoff letter
Maternity letters
Medical reports
Non-disclosure agreement
Pay review - confirm
Performance management
Probation letters
Redundancy letters and forms
Reference requests
Relocation repayment agreement
Resignation: accept
Retirement letters and forms
Sales commission scheme
Secondment details
Sick pay - expiry of payment
Suspension letter
Time to train requests
Tribunal: request to strike out
Tuition agreement
TUPE letters
Volunteer agreement
Whistleblowing - acknowledge concern
Working Time opt-out
HEALTH AND SAFETY
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H & S - Accidents
H & S - Alcohol and drug abuse
H & S - Contact list
H & S - Corporate manslaughter
H & S - COSHH
H & S - Disabled workers
H & S - Drivers
H & S - Employment rights
H & S - Equipment
H & S - Fire
H & S - First aid
H & S - Homeworkers
H & S - Hot temperatures
H & S - Legal
H & S - Lifting
H & S - Lone workers
H & S - Mobile phones
H & S - Night workers
H & S - Noise
H & S - Pregnant workers
H & S - Risk assessment
H & S - Safety reps
H & S - Smoking
H & S - VDUs
H & S - Vibration
H & S - Violence at work
H & S - Work at height
LEGAL OVERVIEWS
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Discrimination:
- general overview
- age
- disability
- race
- religion or belief
- sex
- sexual orientation
- Equality Act
Arbitration
Agency workers
Attachment of Earnings Orders
Automatic unfair dismissal
Bullying and harassment
Changing contracts
Compromise agreements
Consulting with employees
Criminal records
Data Protection Act
Directors' responsibilities
Disciplinary action
Dismissal
Document retention
Employment rights
Employment status
Employment tribunals
Equal pay
Fixed-term contracts
Flexible working
Foreign nationals
Handling absence - sickness or injury
Handling grievances
Handling other absence
Key statistics
Layoffs and short time working
Maternity and adoption
Minimum wage
Misconduct
Notice periods
Parental leave
Part-time employees
Paternity
Pension schemes - general
Pensions - stakeholder schemes
Pensions - occupational schemes
Pensions - personal account schemes
Poor performance
Redundancy
Redundancy pay reckoner
Restrictive covenants
Retirement - statutory procedure
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups
Sick pay
Statements of Fitness for Work
Time off for dependants
Time off to train
Trade unions
Transfer of Undertakings (TUPE)
Whistleblowing
Working time
Young persons
STEP BY STEP GUIDES
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Appraisal
Communication
Delegation
Disciplinary investigations
Disciplinary meeting
Employee satisfaction survey
Induction
Interviewing
Making a job offer
Managing TUPE transfers - transfer out
Managing TUPE transfers - transfer in
Motivation
Performance management
Personnel files & administration
Recruitment
Redundancy
Restructuring
Retention
Time management
Training and development
GUIDES
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360 degree appraisal
Assessment day
Apprentices
Avoiding tribunals
Bonuses
Business gifts and hospitality
Career break schemes
Changing culture
Childcare vouchers
Coaching and mentoring
Communicating - mergers, acquisitions and change
Competency-based selection
Consultation
Crisis management
Cycle to work scheme
Death in service
Diversity
Employee Assistance Programmes
E-learning
Employee consultation
Equal pay audits
Flexible working
Flexible benefits
Home working
Identifying and developing leadership skills
Intro to internal communications
Investors in People
Job adverts
Job descriptions
Job evaluation
Job share arrangements
Leavers
Management development
Managing change
Managing conflict
Managing depression
Managing holidays
Managing during major sporting events
Managing long-term absence
Managing redundancy survivor syndrome
Misconduct outside work
National Insurance Contributions (NICs)
Occupational testing
Pay influences
Pay review
Pay deductions
Pay statements
PAYE and Income Tax
Personal relationships at work
Person specifications
Pre-recruitment checks
Probationary periods
Psychological contract
Reward elements
Retirement
Sales commission
Secondments
Social networking
Standby and callout arrangements
Stress
Succession planning
Suggestion schemes
Talent management
Taking up references
Theft and fraud
Third parties
Tribunal claims
Weather - managing extreme weather conditions
Women in the workplace
Work-related functions
Work experience and placements
Working and travelling abroad
Working with children, young
people and vulnerable adults
HANDOUTS
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DOs and DON'Ts - absence
DOs and DON'Ts - appraisal
DOs and DON'Ts - discipline
DOs and DON'Ts - dismissal
Essential employment law for managers
DOs and DON'Ts - grievances
DOs and DON'Ts - probationary periods
DOs and DON'Ts - recruitment
DOs and DON'Ts - redundancy
DOs and DON'Ts - retirement
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abroad
Working and travelling abroad - guide
abroad
Working and travelling abroad policy
absence
Absence documents
absence
Absence - introduction page
absence
Handling absence due to sickness or injury - legal overview
absence
Managing long-term absence due to ill-health - guide
absence
Absence record
absence
Absence - confirm warning - letter
absence
Absence - unauthorised - first letter (request contact)
absence
Absence - unauthorised - second letter (invite to disciplinary hearing)
absence
Absence - unauthorised - third letter (rescheduled disciplinary hearing)
absence
Absence - unauthorised - fourth letter (dismissal)
absence
Dismissal (unauthorised absence) - letters
absence
DOs and DON'Ts - absence
absence
Medical report (long-term absence) - letter to GP
absence
Occupational health request - long-term absence - letter to advisor
absence
Self-certification of absence form
absence
Absence reporting and sick pay policy
absences
Handling absences other than sickness - legal overview
absences
Medical report (frequent absences) - letter to GP
absences
Occupational health request - frequent absences - letter to advisor
abuse
Health and safety - alcohol and drug abuse in the workplace - guide
abuse
Drugs, alcohol and substance abuse policy
acceptance
Flexible working request - confirm acceptance - letter
acceptance
Resignation - confirm acceptance - letter
accept
Maternity - accept resignation - letter
accept
Redundancy - accept volunteer - letter
accept
Request for time to train - accept request - letter
access
Data access request form
access
Mobile access towers (MAT) checklist
access
Website access instructions
accident
Health and safety - accident reporting and records - guide
accident
Accident report form
accident
Accident claim checklist
accident
Accident witness statement
accident
Accident report policy
accounts
Pensions - Personal Accounts scheme - the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)
acknowledge
Recruitment - acknowledge speculative application - letter
acquisitions
Communicating effectively during mergers, acquisitions and change - guide
action
Disciplinary action - legal overview
additional
Authorisation of additional, outside, work - letter
additional
Additional work policy
administration
HR administration documents
administration
HR administration - introduction page
administration
Personnel files and administration - step by step guide
adoption
Maternity, adoption, paternity and parental - introduction page
adoption
Maternity and adoption - legal overview
adoption
Adoption letters and checklist
adoption
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and dependant leave guidelines
adoption
Maternity or adoption leave - non-return - letter
adoption
Maternity, adoption, paternity and parental leave policies
adoption
Maternity, adoption and paternity leave policy
adoption
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and dependant leave guidelines
adults
Working with children and vulnerable adults - guide
adults
Working with children and vulnerable adults policy
advert
How to write a job advert - guide
advisory
Our advisory team
aeos
Attachment of Earnings Orders (AEOs) - legal overview
age
Discrimination - age - legal overview
age
Health and Safety - risk assessments for pregnant workers and women of child-bearing age - guide
agency
Agency workers - legal overview
agreement
Associate agreement
agreement
Casual worker's agreement
agreement
Director's service agreement
agreement
Non-executive director's services agreement
agreement
Compromise agreement
agreement
Confidential disclosure agreement
agreement
Non-disclosure agreement
agreement
Working Time Regulations - opt-out agreement - other employment
agreement
Working Time Regulations - opt-out agreement - internal
agreement
Relocation repayment agreement
agreement
Secondment agreement (external)
agreement
Secondment letters and agreement
agreement
Training repayment agreement
agreement
Volunteer agreement
agreement
Union partnership agreement - appendix 1
agreement
Union partnership agreement
agreements
Compromise agreements - legal overview
agreements
Working Time Regulations - opt-out agreements
aid
Health and safety - first aid - guide
aid
First aid room checklist
aid
First aid kit contents form
aid
First aid at work policy
alcohol
Health and safety - alcohol and drug abuse in the workplace - guide
alcohol
Drugs, alcohol and substance abuse policy
alternative
Redundancy - confirm offer of alternative work - letter
appeal
Discipline/dismissal - invite to appeal meeting - letter
appeal
Discipline/dismissal - confirm outcome of appeal - letter
appeal
Appeal letters - discipline/dismissal
appeal
Flexible working request - invite to appeal meeting
appeal
Flexible working request - unsuccessful appeal - letter
appeal
Flexible working request - successful appeal - letter
appeal
Grievance appeal - invite to appeal meeting - letter
appeal
Grievance appeal - confirm outcome - letter
appeal
Request for time to train - invite to appeal meeting - letter
appeal
Request for time to train - confirm unsuccessful appeal - letter
appeal
Request for time to train - confirm successful appeal
applicant
Recruitment - unsuccessful applicant after interview - letter
applicant
Recruitment - unsuccessful applicant - not shortlisted - letter
application
Application form
application
Recruitment - acknowledge speculative application - letter
appraisal
Appraisal - step by step guide
appraisal
360-degree appraisal - guide
appraisal
Appraisal form
appraisal
DOs and DON'Ts - appraisal
appraisal
Appraisal review preparation form
apprentice
Contract of employment - apprentice employees
apprentices
Apprentices - guide
arbitration
Arbitration - legal overview
assessment
How to run a simple assessment day - guide
assessment
COSHH assessment
assessment
Disability assessment questionnaire
assessment
Occupational health assessment - request to attend
assessment
Home working assessment
assessment
Interview assessment form
assessment
Maternity - risk assessment meeting - letter
assessment
Night worker assessment
assessments
Health and Safety - risk assessments for pregnant workers and women of child-bearing age - guide
assessments
Health and safety - risk assessments - guide
assistance
Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs) - guide
associate
Associate agreement
attachment
Attachment of Earnings Orders (AEOs) - legal overview
attend
Occupational health assessment - request to attend
audits
Equal pay audits - guide
authorisation
Authorisation to make deduction(s) from pay - letter
authorisation
Authorisation of additional, outside, work - letter
authority
Authority to recruit form
automatic
Automatic unfair dismissal (no service requirement) - legal overview
avoiding
Avoiding tribunals - guide
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