HR guide templates

Our Guide to Avoiding Age Discrimination When Recruiting offers strategies and best practices to ensure fair and inclusive hiring processes, promoting diversity.

If managers are interviewing, this model guide will help them understand the law and good practice, including how to avoid bias and discriminatory questions.

Our Guide to Interviewing Standards offers comprehensive guidelines, ensuring consistency and fairness in candidate assessments while enhancing hiring quality.

Our Guide to Withdrawing a Job Offer in the UK offers detailed instructions and legal considerations for employers when they need to retract a job offer, ensuring compliance and fairness in the process.

Our Guide to Experiential Onboarding for Managers offers a comprehensive approach, providing managers with strategies to create immersive and engaging onboarding experiences for new hires, fostering better integration and productivity.

This guide details the responsibilities for managers for the induction of new employees.

The purpose of this guide is to assist line managers in understanding the processes involved in managing probationary periods, as well as to explain the law and good practise in this area.

Obtaining references from a successful job applicant's prior employers can be incredibly beneficial.

This guide looks at the value of mentoring an apprentice, the mentor role and responsibilities, and who might make a suitable mentor.

This is a guide for an Apprentice to assist them in maintaining a portfolio of evidence, which is something that may be required within their Apprentieship framework.

If you have a new employee, this model guide to pre-employment checks will help you to check their integrity and background, and prevent illegal working.

Our Guide to Chairing a Disciplinary Hearing ensures confident and fair hearings, helping managers navigate disciplinary processes effectively.

If you are considering conducting a disciplinary investigation, use this guide to help you carry it out it legally and effectively.

This guide provides employers with a clear roadmap for handling employee grievances, promoting fairness, compliance, and a positive work environment.

Our Guide to Managing Conflict at Work through Mediation empowers teams to address workplace tensions effectively, fostering collaboration and harmony.

Use this guide to understand the law and good practice on employee grievances, including the effective management of grievances and the practicalities of dealing with grievances.

Our Guide to Managing Keeping in Touch (KIT) Days provides strategies for utilising KIT days during parental leave, benefiting employees and employers.

Our Guide to Managing Maternity Leave streamlines the complex process, ensuring compliance and smooth transitions for both employees and managers.

Our Guide to Managing Shared Parental Leave offers practical insights for employers to navigate this process, promoting transparency and supporting employees.

Comprehensive guide for UK organisations transitioning to a 4-day week, providing step-by-step strategies, legal insights, and employee engagement tips.

Our Guide to Increasing an Employee Notice Period provides step-by-step instructions to navigate the process, ensuring legal compliance and smooth transitions.

If you have received a flexible working request, this model guide sets out an effective, legal framwork to follow when handling it, and determining your response.

This guide looks at the legislation and best practises for home working, covering the statutory right of qualified workers to request to work from home and how line managers may effectively address the practical challenges that come with it.

Our Guide to Trialling a Hybrid Working Model offers comprehensive insights and step-by-step instructions for organisations to effectively implement and evaluate a hybrid work arrangement.

Our absence improvement guide offers insights and strategies for improving employee attendance and reducing absenteeism.

Our Guide to Calculating Bank Holiday Entitlement for Part-Time Employees provides a clear and comprehensive framework for determining bank holiday entitlements for employees who work part-time hours, ensuring fairness and compliance with employment law.

Our Guide to managing an AWOL employee streamlines handling sudden absences, promoting operational continuity and employee accountability.

This guide provides guidance on managing employees on long-term sick leave, including understanding legal obligations, conducting effective communication, implementing reasonable adjustments, and exploring return-to-work options.

This guide outlines the process and considerations involved in managing employee sabbaticals, including policy development, eligibility criteria, leave arrangements, and maintaining employee engagement during and after the sabbatical period.

This guide offers practical strategies for managing short-term employee sick leave, including policies and procedures, return-to-work interviews, monitoring and support mechanisms, and balancing compassionate leave with business needs.

This guide provides guidance on conducting effective return to work (RTW) interviews after periods of absence, helping managers gather relevant information, address any concerns or barriers, and facilitate a smooth transition back to work.

This guide equips managers with essential knowledge and skills to effectively monitor and manage employee timekeeping, including establishing clear expectations, addressing lateness, managing unauthorised absences, and promoting accountability.

Good standards of email communication maintains professionalism, efficiency and reduces risk.

Our Guide to Good Meeting Etiquette outlines best practices for effective and respectful meeting conduct, fostering a productive and collaborative work environment.

Our Guide to Good Office Etiquette provides essential insights, promoting a positive work environment by outlining respectful and professional behaviour expectations in the workplace.

The SMART in SMART goals stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely.

This is a complete guide for an appraiser for how to implement successful performance appraisals.

Our Guide to Using Display Screen Equipment (DSE) at Work provides comprehensive instructions for safe and ergonomic utilisation, promoting employee wellbeing.

Creating and maintaining a meaningful Employee Value Proposition (EVP) can be a powerful tool to attract and retain top talent in your organisation.

This guide provides an overview of employee benefits and current trends, including the emerging popularity of flexible benefits which are designed to provide employees with individual choice.

Our Guide to Salary Sacrifice Benefits Selection offers comprehensive insights for employees to choose suitable benefits, optimising their compensation and financial planning.

Our Guide to Tax Implications for Salary Sacrifice educates employees on the tax-related aspects of participating in a salary sacrifice program, helping them make informed decisions.

If you wish to dismiss an employee due to concerns with poor performance, use this timeline to help you understand the steps.

If you have employee performance concerns, this model guide will help you to agree improvement plans for them to achieve and maintain the standards expected.

Our Guide to Clarifying Roles and Responsibilities with RACI aids in defining clear accountabilities, ensuring efficient task delegation and project management within teams.

Our Guide to Effective HRIS Migration offers a step-by-step roadmap for seamlessly transitioning to a new HR Information System, ensuring data integrity and operational continuity.

Our Guide to Prime Posts in Organisations offers insights and strategies for identifying, evaluating, and optimising key leadership positions within an organisation to maximise effectiveness and growth.

Our Guide to Implementing Employee Share Schemes offers a step-by-step roadmap for organizations looking to establish and manage employee share schemes, ensuring compliance and effective employee participation.

Use this guide to Tax Implications for Share Schemes to explain the tax implications of different share schemes for employees, including EMI, SAYE, and SIP.

Our Guide to Supporting an Alcoholic Employee offers strategies to approach, assist, and guide employees dealing with alcohol-related challenges, fostering a supportive workplace.

Our Guide to Managing Subject Access Requests (SARs) assists organisations in handling data requests efficiently and compliantly, ensuring transparency and adherence to data protection regulations.

If you are managing a redundancy process, this model guide provides effective support for you meet your obligations and help employees understand the process.

The guide outlines the obligations and timeline for employers during redundancies, ensuring compliance and supporting a smooth transition.

Our Guide to Navigating Employee Retirements aids seamless transitions, supporting both employees and management during crucial career shifts.

Comprehensive guide for UK employers navigating TUPE transfers, harmonising terms & conditions post-transfer for fairness & compliance.

Our Guide to Managing the Essentials of TUPE simplifies the complex legalities, ensuring smooth transitions and compliance for all parties involved.

Our Guide to Transferring Staff in on TUPE streamlines the complex process, ensuring compliance and clarity for both incoming and existing employees.

Our Guide to Transferring Staff Out on TUPE facilitates smooth transitions, providing clarity and compliance for outgoing employees and the organisation.

Our Guide to TUPE Obligations and Timeline for the Incoming Employer clarifies responsibilities, ensuring compliance and smooth transitions.

Our Guide to TUPE Obligations and Timeline for the Outgoing Employer outlines responsibilities, aiding compliance and facilitating smooth transitions.

This guide examines the legislation and practice guidelines for references.

The exit interview process is a valuable tool for making business improvements and retaining staff.

Our Guide to Off the Record or Protected Conversations provides comprehensive insights on handling confidential discussions, ensuring legal compliance and effective communication.

Our Guide to Dismissing an Employee for Some Other Substantial Reason (SOSR) offers step-by-step instructions, ensuring legal compliance and fairness in the dismissal process.

If you are considering dismissing an employee with less than two years continuous service, this guide will help you understand the risks and the process.

Our Guide to Managing an Employee Resignation offers step-by-step instructions for a smooth transition, ensuring professionalism and maintaining positive relationships.

Our guide to offboarding simplifies the process, ensuring a smooth transition for departing employees and minimising disruptions for the company.