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KEY DOCUMENTS
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Contracts of employment
Employee handbook
Key employment statistics
Recent/proposed employment legislation (GB)
POLICIES AND HANDBOOKS
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Absence reporting and sick pay
Additional work
Bullying and harassment
Business ethics
Business gifts and hospitality
Career break and sabbaticals
Car and vehicle
Data protection
Disciplinary procedure
Diversity
Dress code
Drivers' handbook
Driving on business
Drugs, alcohol and substance abuse
Environmental
Equal opportunity
Expenses claim
Extended leave
Flexible working
Fraud prevention
Grievance procedure
Health and safety
Health and safety rules
Home working
IT and computer use
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and dependant leave
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Recruitment and selection
Redundancy
References
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Retirement
Reward
Search
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Stress
Training and development
Union partnership agreement
Whistleblowing
Work experience
Working and travelling abroad
Working with children
and vulnerable adults
Working with volunteers
Work-related functions and events
FORMS
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Absence record
Adoption letters and checklist
Application
Appraisal
Appraisal review preparation
Authority to recruit
Authorisation to make deduction(s) from pay
Bank details
Data access request
Death-in-service checklist
Equipment issued
Exit interview
Expenses
Flexible working request
Holiday requests
Home working induction checklist
Induction checklist
Induction plan
Interview assessment
Interview expenses claim
Job description
Leaver checklist
Leaver's report form
Maternity checklist
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental
and dependant leave guidelines
Parental leave record
Person specification
Personal details form
Personnel file checklist
Pre-employment health questionnaire
Recruitment - short-list form
Redundancy letters and forms
Retirement letters and forms
Self-certification of absence
Time to train request letters and form
Training evaluation form
Training and development plan
Training record
Turnover analysis
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
Unsuccessful applicant: not shortlisted
Unsuccessful applicant: after interview
LETTERS
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Also see RECRUITMENT above
Absence - confirm warning
Absence - unauthorised
Adoption letters
Appeal letters
Authorisation of additional, outside work
Career breaks
Change to contractual terms and conditions
Compromise agreement
Confidential disclosure agreement
Disciplinary warnings
Discipline - confirm suspension
Discipline - invite to disciplinary hearing
Dismissal (misconduct or poor performance)
Dismissal (ill-health)
Dismissal (expiry of fixed-term contract)
Dismissal (some other substantial reason)
Employee satisfaction survey
Flexible working requests
Grievance letters
Harassment or bullying - acknowledge allegation
Jury service - confirm details
Lay-off letter
Maternity letters
Medical reports
New starter - first day reporting instructions
Non-disclosure agreement
Pay review - confirm details
Performance management
Paternity letters and form
Probationary letters
Redundancy letters and forms
Reference requests
Relocation repayment agreement
Resignation - confirm acceptance
Retirement letters and forms
Sales commission scheme
Secondment - letters and agreement
Sick pay - expiry of payment
Time to train request letters and form
Training repayment agreement
Tribunal claim - request to strike out
TUPE letters
Volunteer agreement
Whistleblowing - acknowledge receipt of concern
Working Time Regulations - opt-out agreements
HEALTH AND SAFETY
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Accident reporting and records
Alcohol and drug abuse in the workplace
Asbestos
Blood-borne viruses
Corporate Manslaughter Act
COSHH Regulations
Disabled workers
Display screen equipment (VDUs)
Driving on business
Electricity at work
Employee responsibilities
Fire
First aid
Further advice
Home workers
Legal minimum requirements
Legionella
Manual handling
Lone workers
Mobile phones
Night workers
Noise
Occupational health services (OHS)
Personal protective equipment (PPE)
Portable electrical appliances
Pregnant workers and
women of child-bearing age
Risk assessment
Road Transport (Working Time) Regulations
Safety representatives
Slips, trips and falls
Smoking
Vibration
Working at height
Working in hot temperatures
Workplace violence
LEGAL OVERVIEWS
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Discrimination:
- general
- age
- disability
- race
- religion or belief
- sex
- sexual orientation
- Equality Act
Arbitration
Agency workers
Attachment of Earnings Orders (AEOs)
Automatic unfair dismissal
Bribery Act 2010
Bullying and harassment at work
Changing contractual terms
Compromise agreements
Consulting with your workers
Criminal records and CRB disclosures
Data Protection Act (DPA)
Directors' responsibilities
Disciplinary action
Dismissal
Document retention
Employment rights
Employment status
Employment tribunals
Equal pay
Fixed-term contracts
Flexible working - right to request
Foreign nationals and work permits
Handling absence due to sickness or injury
Handling grievances
Handling absences other than sickness
Key employment statistics
Lay-off and short-time working
Managing poor performance
Maternity and adoption
National Minimum Wage (NMW)
Notice periods
Parental leave
Part-time workers
Paternity leave
Pension schemes - general overview
Pensions - occupational schemes
and personal pension schemes
Pensions - Personal Accounts Scheme
Pensions - stakeholder pensions
Redundancy
Redundancy pay ready-reckoner
Restrictive covenants
Retirement - the statutory procedure
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (VBS)
Sick pay (including SSP)
Statements of Fitness for Work
Time off for dependants
Time to train - right to request
Trade unions
Transfer of Undertakings Regulations (TUPE)
Useful calculators for statutory rates
Whistleblowing
Working Time Regulations (WTR)
Young persons and children
STEP BY STEP GUIDES
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Appraisal
Communication
Delegation
Disciplinary investigations
Disciplinary meetings
Employee surveys
Induction
Interviewing
Making a job offer
Managing TUPE transfers - transfer out
Managing TUPE transfers - transfer in
Motivating your team
Performance management
Personnel files and administration
Recruitment
Redundancy
Restructuring
Retention
Time management
Training and development
GUIDES
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360-degree appraisal
Assessment days
Apprentices
Avoiding tribunals
Benchmarking
Bonus/incentive schemes
Business gifts and hospitality
Career break schemes
Changing culture
Childcare vouchers
Clients, contractors and other third parties
Coaching and mentoring
Communicating effectively during mergers,
acquisitions and change
Competency-based selection
Crisis and contingency planning
Cycle to work scheme
Dealing with language barriers
Death-in-service
Deductions from pay
Diversity in the workplace
Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs)
E-learning
Elements of a reward package
Employee consultation
Equal pay audits
Flexible working
Flexible or cafeteria benefit schemes
Home working
Identifying and developing leadership skills
Internal communications
Investors in People (IIP)
Itemised pay statements
Job adverts
Job descriptions
Job evaluation
Job share arrangements
Management development
Managing change
Managing conflict
Managing depression
Managing during major sporting events
Managing holidays
Managing in a continued recession
Managing leavers
Managing long-term absence
Managing 'redundancy survivor syndrome'
Misconduct outside work
National Insurance Contributions (NICs)
Occupational testing
Pay levels
Pay review
PAYE and Income Tax
Personal relationships at work
Person specifications
Pre-employment checks
Preventing and managing industrial action
Probationary periods
Psychological contract
Retirement
Sales commission schemes
Secondments
Salary sacrifice
Social networking
Standby and call-out arrangements
Stress at work
Succession management
Suggestion schemes
Talent management
Taking up references
Theft and fraud
Tribunal claims
Weather - managing extreme conditions
Women in the workplace
Work-related functions
Work experience and unpaid placements
Working and travelling abroad
Working with children and vulnerable adults
HANDOUTS
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DOs and DON'Ts - absence
DOs and DON'Ts - appraisal
DOs and DON'Ts - bullying and harassment
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 - references
DOs and DON'Ts - retirement
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Elements of a reward package - guide
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Pay as you go
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Interviewing - step by step guide
panel
Recruitment letters
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Adoption leave - legal overview
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Maternity leave - legal overview
parent
Parental leave - legal overview
parent
Childcare vouchers - guide
parent
Working with children and vulnerable adults - guide
parent
Adoption letters and checklist
parent
Flexible working request - confirm acceptance - letter
parent
Flexible working request - refuse request - letter
parent
Flexible working requests - letters and form
parent
Parental leave and time off for dependants policy
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Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and time off for dependants - introduction page
parental
Parental leave - legal overview
parental
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and dependant leave documents
parental
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and dependant leave guidelines
parental
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and dependant leave policies
parental
Parental leave and time off for dependants policy
parental
Parental leave record
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Employee satisfaction survey - invite to participate - letter
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Discrimination - general - legal overview
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Discrimination - sex - legal overview
partner
Discrimination - sexual orientation - legal overview
partner
Employment status - legal overview
partnership
Consultation documents
partnership
Trade unions - legal overview
partnership
Working with unions - guide
partnership
Union partnership agreement - appendix 1
partnership
Union partnership agreement
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Discrimination and diversity - introduction page
part-time
Working hours - introduction page
part-time
Discrimination - recruitment considerations - legal overview
part-time
Increase in statutory holidays - legal overview
part-time
Part-time workers - legal overview
part-time
Right to request flexible working - legal overview
part-time
Job share arrangements - guide
part-time
Managing holidays - guide
part-time
Flexible working policy
part-time
Flexible working request - confirm acceptance - letter
part-time
Flexible working requests - letters and form
party
Working with clients, contractors and other third parties - guide
party
Work-related functions - guide
party
Bullying and harassment policy
party
Work-related functions and events policy
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Smoking - guide
passive
Smoking policy
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Paternity leave - legal overview
pat
Electricity at work
pat
Portable electrical appliances
paternity
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and time off for dependants - introduction page
paternity
Paternity leave - legal overview
paternity
Additional paternity leave - confirm notification
paternity
Maternity, adoption and paternity leave policy
paternity
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and dependant leave documents
paternity
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and dependant leave guidelines
paternity
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and dependant leave policies
paternity
Ordinary paternity leave - confirm notification
paternity
Paternity leave letters
pay
Equality, diversity and flexible working documents
pay
Pay and benefits - introduction page
pay
Pay documents
pay
Adoption leave - legal overview
pay
Attachment of Earnings Orders (AEOs) - legal overview
pay
Discrimination - recruitment considerations - legal overview
pay
Discrimination - sex - legal overview
pay
Equality Act - legal overview
pay
Equal pay - legal overview
pay
Handling absence due to sickness or injury - legal overview
pay
Lay-off and short-time working - legal overview
pay
Maternity leave - legal overview
pay
National Minimum Wage (NMW) - legal overview
pay
Notice periods - legal overview
pay
Parental leave - legal overview
pay
Part-time workers - legal overview
pay
Paternity leave - legal overview
pay
Pensions - stakeholder pensions
pay
Redundancy pay ready-reckoner
pay
Sick pay (including Statutory Sick Pay) - legal overview
pay
Time off for dependants - legal overview
pay
Return to work interviews - step by step guide
pay
Benchmarking - guide
pay
Bonus/incentive schemes - guide
pay
Deductions from pay - guide
pay
Document retention - guide
pay
Elements of a reward package - guide
pay
Equal pay audits - guide
pay
Factors that influence pay levels - guide
pay
How to undertake a pay review - guide
pay
Itemised pay statements - guide
pay
Job evaluation - guide
pay
Managing extreme weather conditions - guide
pay
Managing long-term absence due to ill-health - guide
pay
National Insurance Contributions (NICs) - guide
pay
New businesses - overview of minimum requirements - guide
pay
PAYE and Income Tax - guide
pay
Salary sacrifice
pay
Sales commission schemes - guide
pay
Tribunal claims - guide
pay
Women in the workplace - guide
pay
Absence reporting and sick pay policy
pay
Adoption letters and checklist
pay
Authorisation to make deduction(s) from pay - letter
pay
Bank details form
pay
Jury service - confirm details - letter
pay
Maternity, adoption and paternity leave policy
pay
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and dependant leave documents
pay
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and dependant leave guidelines
pay
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and dependant leave policies
pay
Maternity letters and checklist
pay
Maternity or adoption leave - non-return - letter
pay
Pay review - confirm details - letter
pay
Redundancy policy
pay
Relocation repayment agreement
pay
Reward policy
pay
Sales commission scheme
pay
Self-certification of absence form
pay
Sick pay - expiry of payment - letter
pay
Training repayment agreement
pay
Pay as you go
paye
PAYE and Income Tax - guide
payment
Sick pay - expiry of payment - letter
payroll
Bank details form
payslip
Deductions from pay - guide
payslip
Itemised pay statements - guide
peer
360-degree appraisal - guide
penalties
National Minimum Wage (NMW) - legal overview
penalties
Managing TUPE transfers - transfer in - step by step guide
penalties
Managing TUPE transfers - transfer out - step by step guide
penalties
PAYE and Income Tax - guide
pension
Discrimination - age - legal overview
pension
Pension schemes - general overview
pension
Pensions - occupational and personal pension schemes
pension
Pensions - Personal Accounts scheme - the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)
pension
Pensions - stakeholder pensions
pension
Managing retirement - guide
pension
DOs and DON'Ts - retirement
pension
Retirement policy
pensions
Pensions - occupational and personal pension schemes
pensions
Pensions - Personal Accounts scheme - the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)
pensions
Pensions - stakeholder pensions
perform
Training and development - step by step guide
performance
Discipline and misconduct documents
performance
Leaver and dismissal documents
performance
Training and appraisal documents
performance
Training and development - introduction page
performance
Managing poor performance - legal overview
performance
Appraisal - step by step guide
performance
Disciplinary investigations - step by step guide
performance
Disciplinary meetings - step by step guide
performance
Performance management - step by step guide
performance
Training and development - step by step guide
performance
360-degree appraisal - guide
performance
Competency-based selection - guide
performance
Secondments - guide
performance
Succession management - guide
performance
Appraisal form
performance
Appraisal review preparation form
performance
Disciplinary procedure
performance
Dismissal (misconduct or poor performance) - letters
performance
Dismissal (with notice) - misconduct or poor performance - letter
performance
DOs and DON'Ts - appraisal
performance
DOs and DON'Ts - discipline
performance
DOs and DON'Ts - dismissal
performance
Improvement note (poor performance) - letter
performance
Performance management - letter
performance
Training and development plan - form
performance
Training evaluation form
performance
Training record
periods
Notice periods - legal overview
periods
DOs and DON'Ts - probationary periods
permit
Checking the right to work in the UK - legal overview
permit
Foreign nationals and work permits - legal overview
permit
Authority to recruit form
permit
Permit to work - confined space - form
permit
Permit to work - working at height - form
permits
Foreign nationals and work permits - legal overview
person
Recruitment - introduction page
person
Person specifications - how to write - guide
person
Person specification - template
personal
Pensions - occupational and personal pension schemes
personal
Pensions - Personal Accounts scheme - the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)
personal
Personal protective equipment (PPE) - guide
personal
Personal relationships at work - guide
personal
Personal details form
personal
Personal protective equipment (PPE) policy
personal
Personal relationships at work policy
personal
Reference request - personal - letter
personnel
HR administration documents
personnel
HR administration - introduction page
personnel
Letters and forms - introduction page
personnel
New starter documents
personnel
Document retention - legal overview
personnel
Personnel files and administration - step by step guide
personnel
Data protection - employee monitoring - guide
personnel
Data protection - employment records - guide
personnel
Document retention - guide
personnel
Why have policies and procedures - guide
personnel
Data access request form
personnel
Leaver's report form
personnel
Personal details form
personnel
Personnel file checklist
personnel
Online personnel and Human Resources
personnel
Risk assessment - HR practices
persons
Employing young persons and children - legal overview
phi
Managing long-term absence due to ill-health - guide
philosophical
Discrimination - recruitment considerations - legal overview
philosophical
Discrimination - religion or belief - legal overview
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Mobile phones - guide
phone
Mobile phone policy
phone
Contact us
phones
Mobile phones - guide
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Notice periods - legal overview
pilon
Restrictive covenants - legal overview
placements
Work experience and unpaid placements - guide
plan
New starter documents
plan
Training and appraisal documents
plan
Time management - step by step guide
plan
Training and development - step by step guide
plan
Communicating effectively during mergers, acquisitions and change - guide
plan
Crisis and contingency planning - guide
plan
Succession management - guide
plan
Induction plan - template
plan
Sales commission scheme
plan
Training and development plan - form
plan
Training and development policy
plan
Training evaluation form
plan
Training record
planning
Crisis and contingency planning - guide
planning
Managing retirement - guide
planning
Succession management - guide
planning
Talent management - guide
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Managing long-term absence due to ill-health - guide
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Restrictive covenants - legal overview
poison
The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH) - guide
poison
COSHH assessment
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Contracts and policies - introduction page
policies
Why have policies and procedures - guide
policies
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and dependant leave policies
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Redundancy - legal overview
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Managing poor performance - legal overview
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Dismissal (misconduct or poor performance) - letters
poor
Dismissal (with notice) - misconduct or poor performance - letter
poor
Improvement note (poor performance) - letter
portable
Portable electrical appliances
portable
Electrical visual inspection checklist
portable
IT and computer use policy
portable
Laptops - health and safety guidance for users
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Equality Act - legal overview
positive
Diversity in the workplace - guide
post-employment
Restrictive covenants - legal overview
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Criminal records and CRB disclosures - legal overview
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Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups ("VBS") - legal overview
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Working with children and vulnerable adults - guide
pova
Working with children and vulnerable adults policy
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Blood-borne viruses
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Health and safety documents
ppe
Health and safety - further advice
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Noise at work - guide
ppe
Personal protective equipment (PPE) - guide
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The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH) - guide
ppe
Working in hot temperatures - guide
ppe
Dress code policy
ppe
Health and safety rules
ppe
Personal protective equipment (PPE) policy
ppe
Record of equipment issued - form
practices
Risk assessment - HR practices
precautions
Violence at work policy
pre-employment
New starters - introduction page
pre-employment
Checking the right to work in the UK - legal overview
pre-employment
Making a job offer - step by step guide
pre-employment
Pre-employment checks - guide
pre-employment
Taking up references - guide
pre-employment
Pre-employment health questionnaire
pre-employment
References policy
pregnancy
Automatic unfair dismissal - legal overview
pregnancy
Discrimination - sex - legal overview
pregnancy
Maternity leave - legal overview
pregnancy
Maternity - accept resignation - letter
pregnancy
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and dependant leave documents
pregnancy
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and dependant leave guidelines
pregnancy
Maternity letters and checklist
pregnancy
Maternity or adoption leave - non-return - letter
pregnancy
Maternity - risk assessment meeting - letter
pregnancy
Pregnancy health and safety checklist
pregnant
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and time off for dependants - introduction page
pregnant
Maternity leave - legal overview
pregnant
Pregnant workers and women of child-bearing age - guide
pregnant
Risk assessments - guide
pregnant
Maternity - accept resignation - letter
pregnant
Maternity, adoption and paternity leave policy
pregnant
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and dependant leave documents
pregnant
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and dependant leave guidelines
pregnant
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental and dependant leave policies
pregnant
Maternity letters and checklist
pregnant
Maternity or adoption leave - non-return - letter
pregnant
Maternity - risk assessment meeting - letter
pregnant
Pregnancy health and safety checklist
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Employment/Industrial tribunals - legal overview
pre-hearing
Employment tribunals - legal overview
pre-hearing
Tribunal claims - guide
premises
First aid - guide
premises
Housekeeping checklist
premises
Office refurbishment safety checklist
pre-retirement
Retirement - invitation to pre-retirement meeting - letter
presents
Bribery Act 2010
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Business gifts and hospitality - guide
presents
Business gifts and hospitality policy
pressure
Stress at work - guide
pressure
Stress policy
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Preventing and managing industrial action
prevent
Workplace violence - guide
preventing
Preventing and managing industrial action
prevention
Lone workers - guide
prevention
Workplace violence - guide
prevention
Fraud prevention policy
prevention
Health and safety rules
previous
Equality Act - repeal/revocation of previous legislation
privacy
Security and privacy
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Probation - confirm satisfactory completion - letter
probation
Probation - extend probationary period - letter
probation
Probation - invite to review meeting - letter
probationary
Induction - step by step guide
probationary
Managing the probationary period - guide
probationary
Dismissal (unsatisfactory probationary period) - letter
probationary
DOs and DON'Ts - probationary periods
probationary
Probationary letters
probationary
Probation - extend probationary period - letter
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Retirement - the statutory procedure - legal overview
procedure
Disciplinary procedure
procedure
Emergency procedure checklist
procedure
Grievance procedure
procedure
Out of hours emergency procedure
procedure
Procedure for using ladders - form
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Why have policies and procedures - guide
professional
Dress code policy
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Recruitment - introduction page
profile
Job descriptions - how to write - guide
profile
Job description - template
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Bonus/incentive schemes - guide
programmes
Employee Assistance Programmes ('EAP's) - guide
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Fixed-term contracts - legal overview
project
Contract of employment - fixed-term or defined project
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Dismissal (expiry of fixed-term contract) - confirm - letter
project
Dismissal (expiry of fixed-term contract) - invite to meeting - letter
project
Dismissal (expiry of fixed-term contract) - letters
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Competency-based selection - guide
promotion
How to run a simple assessment day - guide
promotion
Identifying and developing leadership skills
promotion
Secondments - guide
promotion
Succession management - guide
promotion
Equal opportunity policy
promotion
Recruitment letters
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Recent and proposed employment legislation - Great Britain
proposed
Recent and proposed employment legislation - Northern Ireland
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Restrictive covenants - legal overview
protect
Personal protective equipment (PPE) - guide
protect
Personal protective equipment (PPE) policy
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Discrimination and diversity - introduction page
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Discrimination - recruitment considerations - legal overview
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Equality Act - legal overview
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Whistleblowing - legal overview
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Whistleblowing - acknowledge receipt of concern - letter
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Whistleblowing policy
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Data Protection Act (DPA) - legal overview
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Data protection - employee monitoring - guide
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Data protection - employment records - guide
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Employment protection for health and safety issues - guide
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Data protection policy
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Personal protective equipment (PPE) - guide
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Personal protective equipment (PPE) policy
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