Is your workplace Covid safe?

With lockdown restrictions easing as each month passes, it is still important for employers to be vigilant in making sure workplaces meet Covid safe…

June 21, 2021

HR Articles, HR Consultancy

The UK’s case for the right to disconnect

How many managers reading this update have emailed their team members after their contractual working hours have ended with the expectation of a response…

June 18, 2021

COVID-19, HR Articles, HR Consultancy

Managing annual leave post lockdown

The effects of lockdown continue to alter not only our social life, but our work one too. Managing annual leave post lockdown is an…

June 14, 2021

HR Articles, HR Consultancy

A HR guide for driving at work

The Department of Transport reports that more than 20,000 people are killed or seriously injured on Britain’s roads each year, and a third of…

June 1, 2021

Business Support, HR Articles, HR News

Age discrimination is on the up

The Employment Tribunal Service recently released figures that there had been a significant increase in the number of Age Discrimination cases that had been…

May 25, 2021

Business Support, Centric HR News, HR Consultancy

Recovery and change

It’s great to see that the country is starting to get moving again, after a lengthy period of lockdown and significant changes to the…

May 17, 2021

HR Articles, HR News

The introduction of Hybrid working

While some employees want to work from home all the time after the pandemic, most would prefer a balance where they are in the…

May 6, 2021

Centric HR News

Sandra Berns appointed as a judge for business awards

Sandra Berns, founder of Centric HR has been asked to be a judge for the South West Business & Community Awards which this year…

April 28, 2021

Business Support, HR Articles, HR News

Kickstart Scheme for Schools and Nurseries

The £2 billion Kickstart Scheme scheme has been designed to ensure young people at risk of long term unemployment have a future of opportunity and…

April 26, 2021

Business Support, HR Articles, HR News

UBER case and classification of employed status

The recent Supreme Court decision which found that the Uber drivers are actually workers is a landmark case that employers should take note of. …

April 20, 2021

Business Support, HR News

Employment tribunal figures just released

The following data compiled by the Ministry of Justice has just been released for employment cases reaching tribunals. There has been a 46% decrease…

April 19, 2021

Business Support, COVID-19, HR Consultancy

Impact of Long Covid for employers

“Long COVID” is a term being used which describes the long-lasting impact that COVID-19 can have on a person. These impacts are being seen…

April 17, 2021

Business Support, COVID-19, HR Articles, HR Consultancy

FAQs to support employees returning from a period of shielding

FAQs Q: What is the new national guidance on shielding? Public Health England has issued new guidance to those categorized as extremely clinically vulnerable….

April 16, 2021

Centric HR News, Events, HR News

Free Webinar – Get paid to take on a digital marketer through Kickstart

We’d like to invite you to our next Free Webinar – Kickstart Employment Briefing and Q&A, taking place on Friday 16 April 2021 from…

April 13, 2021

Business Support, HR News, HR Publications

Guidance for re-opening

Today has seen the opening of non-essential retail; close contact services such as hairdressers, barbers and nail salons; public buildings, including libraries and community…

April 12, 2021

Centric HR News, Media Releases

Kickstarter appointed to help kick off new scheme

Centric HR, a leading human resource consultancy in Staffordshire has offered a work experience placement to a young candidate to help process and support…

April 7, 2021

HR News

National Minimum Wage Increase – 6 April 2021

If you have any employees who are paid at the National Minimum Wage remember that from 6 April the rates will increase in line…

March 29, 2021

Business Support, HR Articles

Important changes to the guidance on clinically extremely vulnerable

The Department for Health and Social Care is changing the advice it is giving to those people that are clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV), in…

March 29, 2021

HR Articles, HR News

Key changes for April 2021

It’s coming to that time of year again where key changes for April 2021 are being introduced and at Centric HR we are helping…

March 19, 2021

Business Support, HR Articles, HR News

Health problems on the increase from home working

Back in March 2020, when the UK government first imposed a national lockdown in response to the global health crisis, no one could have…

March 11, 2021

HR Articles, HR News

Positive news for young people in employment

With the government announcing that the National Living Wage (NLW) and National Minimum Wage (NMW) rates will increase from April 2021, and exciting new…

March 4, 2021