What Skeletons are you hiding in your closet? (HR Health Check)

Why bother with an HR Health Check?

 Did you get all of your employee’s personnel details when they joined you? Perhaps some forms got left in the closet?

Then an audit is here for you!

Audits may be scary but is a great way to wiggle out what information might be missing from your employees’ personal records, i.e.;

  • Contact details
  • Home address
  • Emergency contact details

But what else can an audit provide for you?

Eligibility to Work

A significant point an audit can help you with is what right-to-work checks you have and haven’t completed for employees. The charge for not doing right-to-work checks is a ghastly £20,000 per employee who hasn’t had a proper right-to-work check!

Turnover

Turnover rate is important to a business not only for the cost of recruiting and training new employees, but also a way to identify how to boost your company’s productivity to avoid a high turnover rate. An audit can provide you with the breakdown of what percentage turnover is for your business, but also how to support you to maintain a low turnover rate.  Did you know what the cost of replacing an employee is to your business? It is estimated that to replace a salaried employee, it could cost, on average, between a terrifying 6 – 9 months’ salary.

Absence Rate

We understand that employees may need time off for a variety of reasons, short-term or long time. With an audit report for absence, we’d be able to show you a breakdown of how much absence is on record from each employee and how to support those that have a high number of absences.  The cost of absence to a business per year is around £554 – £557 per employee!

Holiday

Keeping an up-to-date record of holiday usage and entitlement can help to ensure you are compliant with the working time directive, but can also help to reduce financial risk to your business.

It’s always important to manage and monitor holiday leave and engage with your employees about holiday entitlement.

What benefits are there of conducting an audit?

Keeping up with GDPR and ensuring you have correct date data for your team.

Understanding the costs of turnover and absence in your business.

Make sure you are up to date with your Right To Work Checks and have the documents on file.

How can we help?

Overall Audits are here to report all the missing gaps and how we can help provide you with the necessary support on how to proactively act with the information provided by an audit report to improve your business on day-to-day bases.

Option 1 – Our FREE HR Health Check will cover the basics and review what you currently do and how it could be improved in a comprehensive report.

Or if you are wanting to completely sweep the cobwebs aware you could opt for our Enhanced Audit.  Find out more below.

How can we help?

If you would like to learn more about any of the statutory policies and processes that you need as a Small Business then, please get in touch and see how we can support you.

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Navigating Christmas annual leave can be challenging for small businesses, but now is the time to tackle it head-on. With the festive season just around the corner, many companies are planning their holiday policies for the upcoming Christmas period. This year, due to the placement of the bank holidays, a common approach is to allow employees to take up to five days of leave to bridge the gap between Christmas and New Year. However, flexibility is key, especially for businesses with varied operations and employee needs. 

Managing Christmas Annual Leave

Here are some strategies for managing leave over the Christmas period, ensuring minimal disruption while supporting your employees:

1) Offer Flexible Leave Options

Rather than mandating a full five-day leave deduction, consider offering employees the option to take fewer days, depending on their individual leave balance. This provides flexibility for both the business and your workforce.

2) Borrowing from Next Year’s Allowance

For employees who do not have enough leave to cover the period, allow them to borrow days from their next year’s allowance. This gives them the ability to enjoy the full break without impacting operations or personal leave planning.

3) Unpaid Leave as an Alternative

Some employees may prefer not to borrow leave or may have exhausted their entitlement. Offering unpaid leave for the closure period is a simple, cost-effective solution that allows them to take time off without using future leave. 

HR Health Check Kate Underwood HR
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