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Supreme court confirms pro-rating holiday pay for part-year workers is unlawful

How employers can tackle the money stigma in the room.

Under new legislation introduced on 1 July, a wider range of healthcare professionals (HCPs) – including nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists and physiotherapists – now have the power to certify fit notes (aka sick notes).

At Contact Centre Panel, we are fortunate to have many conversations each month with our clients and partners, we enjoy discussing what is happening specifically in businesses but love talking about industry trends and what the future of CX looks like. So last week, I was stopped in my tracks when a partner asked, “what about insourcing at the moment?”

The last two years have put tremendous pressure on the employer-employee relationship. From vaccination to workplace safety measures, the pandemic has introduced plenty of new potential sources of conflict, and in many cases, employers’ COVID response and their handling of COVID-related issues continue to be a source of resentment.

Never ask your employees to do something you wouldn’t be willing to do yourself

If you’re running a contact centre, especially one providing multilingual services, the dominant news themes of the past few years, Brexit, The ‘Great Resignation’ and War, have all compounded to make a challenging job even more difficult.

The last two years have put tremendous pressure on the employer-employee relationship.

A new staffing challenge

Following our recent Hybrid Working webinar, we spent some time speaking with Alexandra Farmer, Head of Team and Solicitor at Ellis Whittam, the specialist Employment Law, HR and Health & Safety firm. She’s perfectly placed to share her insights about this important and topical subject.

Hybrid Working – Ensuring a secure, productive and low-risk working environment ‘Coffee table conversation’ webinar 12:30-13:15, 30 July 2021

We interviewed Charles Spencer, Principal Health & Safety Consultant at Ellis Whittam. He is a Chartered Member of IOSH and the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) and has a volunteer role as the CIEH representative for the BSI committee for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems.