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Lessons from the Post Office Scandal

Lessons from the Post Office Scandal

“There is no direct evidence of her taking any money… She adamantly denies stealing. There is no CCTV evidence. There are no fingerprints or marked bank notes or anything of that kind. There is no evidence of her accumulating cash anywhere, or spending large sums of...

Do you embrace change?

Do you embrace change?

Anyone else thinking ‘wow, where did that year go – how is it September already?’ And how is it nearly 2024? What happened to the past few years? Since the pandemic, time seems to have sped up – and so much, for everyone, has changed. The way we do business, the way...

Fancy some online training?

Fancy some online training?

Big news this week at PPHR, and I am so excited to share my new online course with you all on how to recruit people fairly!   It's been a labour of love, but finally it is ready to go.    This interactive course is for hiring managers, supervisors and anyone with an...

Ask HR – the risks in hiring when it doesn’t work out

Ask HR – the risks in hiring when it doesn’t work out

The next in my series of Ask HR questions, I've been asked what the risks are when you have recruited someone but it doesn't work out.  In this video I talk about unfair dismissal, discrimination and automatically unfair dismissal, plus the less tangible risks that...

Are your appraisals just a form filling exercise?

Are your appraisals just a form filling exercise?

Employee Appraisals.  Essential business process, or complete waste of time? In the next of my Ask HR series the question was - how do I avoid appraisals becoming a form filling exercise?   For many businesses, they know that appraisals are a good thing, but they are...