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The manager's guide to working time and rest breaks
What your staff are entitled to during the day, between shifts and across the week, how the 48-hour opt-out really works, and the records you need to prove it.
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The manager's guide to redundancy
Redundancy is a genuine reason for dismissal only when its tests are met. Fair selection, individual and collective consultation, the protective award, and how redundancy pay and notice work.
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The manager's guide to disciplinary and grievance handling
The ACAS Code sets the minimum fair process for discipline and grievances. The steps to follow, the right to be accompanied, appeals, and the tribunal uplift for getting it wrong.
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The manager's guide to long-term sickness absence
A long absence means a person to support, sick pay to get right and a return to plan. What the law asks of you, what changed in 2026, and the practical steps to take at each stage.
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ArticleAI at work series
A short glossary for AI at work, in plain English
The terms that keep coming up across this series, defined in plain English, without assuming you already know them.
21 Sept 2026Read article
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AI time saved, or a step added?
A plain, practical audit: which HR tasks genuinely get faster with AI, and which ones only look modern while quietly taking longer.
14 Sept 2026Read article
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You can already ask to see it
More of your record now runs through software than ever. The right to see all of it has not gone away, and it is stronger than most people realise.
7 Sept 2026Read article
ArticleAI at work series
What employees are quietly worried about
Not guesswork: what a national survey of employees actually says they worry about, and what a sensible employer does with that.
31 Aug 2026Read article
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Where AI helps hiring, and where it doesn't
Recruitment is where AI tools have moved fastest, and where the risk of getting it wrong is best documented. Here is the practical line between the two.
24 Aug 2026Read article
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What UK law already says about automated decisions
Companion to the last piece: the legal detail behind why a human always needs to be able to change the outcome, and what actually changed for employers this February.
17 Aug 2026Read article
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The manager's guide to working time and rest breaks
What your staff are entitled to during the day, between shifts and across the week, how the 48-hour opt-out really works, and the records you need to prove it.
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White-label HR software: why UK HR consultants partner rather than build
Why UK HR consultants offer white-label HR software under their own brand: better margins, no build cost, and client relationships that stay theirs.
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Four decisions AI should never make alone
Recruitment scoring, performance ratings, disciplinary outcomes, redundancy selection: four decisions where a plausible-sounding answer is not good enough.
10 Aug 2026Read article
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