Performance management

Capability refers to an employee's skills, ability, aptitude and knowledge in relation to the job that they employed to do. Lack of capability will in most cases lead to unsatisfactory job performance, which is likely to cause problems both for th...


Agency workers

Agency Workers are not employees of your Company and as such will not have the rights to claim unfair dismissal, redundancy pay or maternity leave, or benefits such as occupational sick pay, company pension schemes or bonus payments based on compa...


Pay in lieu of notice (PILON)

In some situations an employer may wish to provide pay in lieu of notice or PILON when an employee leaves a company. You can only look to provide PILON if you have a contractual clause to do so, otherwise employees are required to work their full...


Interviews

Arguably the most important stage of the recruitment and selection process is the interview.  So it always amazes me how little time recruiting managers spend in preparing for the actual interview, so much so that I once conducted an intervie...