Many UK small businesses and organisations are suffering from severe labour shortages, attributed to both the pandemic, and the new immigration laws that came into effect when the UK left the European Union. Employers have called for the government to address these shortages by making adjustments to their visa policies (for example, to allow HGV
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On 28 November 2020, changes to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) filtering rules came into effect, to remove the ‘multiple convictions rule’ and prevent the disclosure of youth cautions. Filtering rules exclude certain information about minor criminal offences from DBS certificates. These are termed ‘protected cautions’ or ‘protected convictions’. Under the previous filtering functions,
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Have you ever heard of the halos/horns effect? The halo/horns effect is a form of cognitive bias where we allow a single trait, action, event or behaviour, halo (good) or horns (bad), to overshadow all others that follow. The halo effect pre-disposes you to think favourably of a person or company, while the horns effect
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This month, we celebrated International Women’s Day; a day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, and a call to action for gender equality. Would you be shocked to know that, of the 10,015 companies who submitted their Gender pay data in 2018, 78% reported a pay gap that favoured men over
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Do we need to go ‘Back to the future’ with our recruiting methods? Two decades ago (when the Internet was in its domestic infancy), many employers avoided recruiting university graduates with first class honours degrees, believing that such an achievement indicated that the graduate had focused solely on their books and had not engaged in
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The UK skills shortage is at an all-time high, with the shortage of workers falling across multiple sectors including engineering, accounting, hospitality and care. The stats Job vacancies have risen by 16,000 from last year up to 767,000 (Office of National Statistics, May 2017), yet unemployment levels have dropped lower than they have been in
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Employment References – beware! A recent EAT decision is a reminder of the trouble an employer and former employer may face over a misguided or inaccurate reference. It’s a common myth that you can’t give a “bad” reference but in fact, employers have a legal joint duty of care to both the recipient of the
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