Human Resources

Many care homes engage workers to sleep overnight so as to satisfy legal obligations and since, in most cases, all the carer needs to do is sleep this has typically…

It seems that for many years tattoos were associated with sailors, bikers and thugs. Statistics now show that 1 in 10 people have a tattoo, so it is clear that…

Installing CCTV carries with it the implication that employees are not to be trusted. That inherently damages the employer-employee relationship and may result in less trustworthy employees. It is easy…

UK Annual Leave Survey Many of us will look forward to having some time away from work with the aim to recharge our batteries and relax.  Recent figures from the…

The verdict from care professionals, at a recent seminar, that we ran, was that the key to avoiding abuse of service users by care staff lay in selection of the…

Fake Britain Having watched a recent episode of ‘Fake Britain’, I was amazed to see just how easy it is to obtain a ‘fake reference’ and to observe how this…

Research confirms that a serious proportion (nearly 20%) of new employees fail to get beyond their probationary period. They fail because of poor performance, absence, punctuality or personality clashes. Recruitment…

Nonagenarians calling desperately for the toilet or harassed care staff dealing roughly with an obstreperous human being, grab our attention. But they do nothing for the reputation of the care…