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ISSUE 7
Diary of an HR Manager
Monday 8.20 am On the train, reading – yet again - my curated list of actions in anticipation of the flood of changes over the coming year due to the Employment Rights Bill: I broke it down into the following: Nothing to do as does not apply: End fire and rehire End “exploitative” zero-hour contracts Easily implemented – to adjust in the employee conditions: Day one right to sick pay Day one right to unfair dismissal Day one right to bereavement leave Day one protections for pregnant women & new mothers returning to work Expanding the Equality (Race and Disparity) Bill to make it mandatory for large employers to report their *ethnicity and disability pay gap Statutory probation period. Already in place: Right to Switch Off, preventing employees from being contacted out of hours, except in exceptional circumstances Flexible working the default for all within business limits – we were already running this on a gradual roll out across the company.
Wait and See: More definition was needed for: Move towards a single status of worker and transition towards a simpler two-part framework for employment status Parental leave and carers leave systems I updated my To-Do list with the minor changes. Overall, I felt we were well up in the game. The Board had been well-briefed and were onside with the changes. What they were complaining about was the Employer NI hike! So far there was no talk of a hiring freeze, but we’d see how the wind blew when the first replacement post came up! 9.44 am Sarah, Head of Payroll, had confirmed our list of 5 vendors to see at the exhibition this coming Thursday. She would be travelling from Wiltshire and me from East Anglia, so we’d agreed that to arrive fresh and ready for 9.00 am we’d book rooms at the Premier Inn and walk across to the Centre. I’d received confirmation of our advance booking times with the vendors this morning and would be sending across a list of things
* When Gender Pay Gap reporting became obligatory, I had extended the scope to include
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