Job retention scheme & covid-19 On Friday 21st March 2020 the Government announced the ‘Job Retention Scheme’ for organisations affected by the COVID-19 crisis (most of us!) Transferring employees on to ‘furloughed’ status as an alternative to job...
A picture paints a thousand words Well, that’s how the saying goes. I recently had to dig out my good old ‘CIPD’ certificate to demonstrate that I indeed had ‘chartered’ status, and it got me thinking. That A4 piece of paper, albeit decent quality, was deemed the...
To grade or not to grade, that is the question? In theory, job grading/evaluation is straightforward:Jobs are grouped into grades or bands.Jobs in the same grade/band are treated as being equal for the purposes of pay and benefits. Normally the jobs have gone through...
