How to avoid underpaying your team.

A list of 191 companies has been ‘named and shamed’ on the Gov website this week. They failed to pay £2.1 million to more than 34,000 employees. We at Ashton People Solutions can help if you have any queries over your pay structure, benefits or overtime policy, but please see our tips below which may help you avoid common pay pitfalls.

Many have struggled during the past 15 months, whether it be through losing work, income, missing friends and family or with physical or mental health.

The Benefits of Effective Employee Retention.

According to the CIPD’s 2020 Resourcing and Planning Survey, the rate of voluntary employee turnover almost doubled from 5.5% in 2014 to 10.1% in 2019.

A modest level of staff turnover can be positive for a business – new starts can suggest new ways of working, approaches and ideas. However, the right culture, attitude, policies and respect can really go far in keeping your employees loyal and happy.

With lockdown now easing around the UK and around 34 million people vaccinated so far, people are becoming cautiously optimistic about a return to near-normality. However, as various scientists have noted, we will be living with variations of the coronavirus for many years to come, and this means that some restrictions may be here to stay or return in future.

‘Businesses and workplaces should encourage their employees to work at home, wherever possible.’ This is the advice from the government to all UK business, in a bid to help reduce the spread of COVID-19 across the country.
For some companies, this is business as usual but for many this is a new approach and just like anything else that’s new, it comes with tricky challenges and questions.