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ISSUE 5
DIARY OF AN HR MANAGER
Wednesday 9.10 a.m The trains were late today – signalling failure – so I arrived later than I had really wanted. Second day on site, and already hating the commute! On my list for today was a review of uncompleted closure of skills gaps from some operational department discussions in May. Normally the line managers deal with this, but the HR system had flagged up three yet to be done which seemed unusual, as they were all credit control department, and the manager, Tracey Littlewood was a good manager. I checked her diary, found a window just after lunch and booked it. The main item was to gather and re-read our new draft policies on Sexual Harassment and Right to Disconnect and Flexible working, in preparation for a review meeting next week with our consulting employment lawyer, who would root out any potential weaknesses.
We’d put in a lot of work on these as soon as we knew they would be proposed by Government and we wanted them to be ready for rollout in October. I’d worked in enough corporate places to observe that new employment legislation is never reflected in company policies until weeks later – if that. So, one of my resolutions was that the policies would always be up to date and applicable when needed. On Right to Disconnect, we had thought a lot about this one. Working with IT, some operational managers and a couple of staff polls, we had established the following: A list of managers & employees who had all agreed to be contactable out of hours either by phone or text in agreed cases of emergency or priority action.
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