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Onboarding new staff is an integral part of running a business. This process has many stages that can take place over the employee’s first few months. Among other things, during onboarding the employee will:
Is the UK’s national minimum wage going up in 2022?
Yes! The national minimum wage is going up in 2022 on 1st April – as announced by Rishi Sunak in October 2021 as part of his budget. 23 and over = £9.50 21 to 22 = £9.18 18 to 20 = £6.83 Under 18 = £4.81 Apprentice...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has offered the hospitality sector a 50% discount on business rates for the next year. He will also introduce “draught relief” which will apply a new lower rate of duty on draught beer and cider. It will particularly benefit community pubs who do 75% of their trade on...
This is both a simple and a complicated question at the same time… Monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is vital for you to be able to track how well your business is performing and optimize your spending! There isn’t a one size fits all...Restaurant KPIs - where do you start?
Managing your hospitality staff rota can take a lot of time and effort: planning shifts, making sure you’re appropriately staffed, factoring in holiday and sickness, keeping your staff up to date... It’s a big task, and one that’s important to do well to optimise...How Effectively Are You Planning Your Rota?
You most probably are aware of the reduction to 5% of specific VAT supplies in the hospitality industry, which the Chancellor introduced on 8th July 2020 to help the sector through COVID. The Chancellor then extended the 5% VAT until the end of September 2021. From 1st October 2021 any VAT category...
Home Office guidance on right to work checks changed on 1st July 2021. Click here for the direct article. The requirement for employers to complete pre-employmentright to work checkson all employees in the UK remains. Carrying out checks in line with Home Office requirements gives the employer a statutory excuse to...
How to Offset the Cost of Minimum Wage Increases in the UK The national living wage and minimum wages for those younger than 25gone up from the 1st of April, which is great news for employees. For employers, labour costs are one of the largest variable costs that businesses are having to...
What you need to know before changing your worker’s hours
Changing your worker’s shift hours can be challenging in terms of collaborating with the workers. To tackle the problem of non-beneficial decisions, you must consider the importance of your worker’s schedule. When employees do not meet the productivity standards of your...
How to make an effective and successful business?
Effective business can explain where a quality task and process take place at a high level which leads to the overall increase in the performance and productivity of business. Now the question is how to make an effective and successful business? What is...
The manual to absence management: what it entails and how to control it
What does the term absence management mean?
Managing a business is a lot more than looking after your products or services and generating profits. The most crucial part of handling a business is managing your employees and making...
Significance of time management at the workplace
We all know this phrase that time is money. Time management is very necessary and important at any workplace. The workplace can be an office, schools, hospitals and businesses. Time management can be explained in such a way that planning and division of time...
