What if you do not need or cannot afford all of your existing workforce, how can you save costs? Andrea McCann, Partner, McKees Options for the employer to consider include the following: natural wastagerecruitment freezesstopping or reducing overtimeoffering early retirement to volunteersvoluntary redundancyretraining or redeploymentsabbaticals and secondmentspay freezes It is likely that the main options …
Financial considerations of Re-Establishing your business
As government support under the job retention scheme is reduced over the coming months and ends on 31 October 2020 now is the time to start to review your business operations and consider if you need to make any savings.
SME Support Forum Survey
We invite you to take part in the SME Support Forum Redundancy Survey to help us get a better understanding of the current landscape regarding potential redundancies in Northern Ireland.
Redundancy: The Options & The Process
The next series of articles from the SME Support Forum will focus on the issue of redundancy. Andrea McCann, is a Partner at McKees where she heads up the Employment team. As well as providing some helpful information on the redundancy consultation process, she will also detail some of the options employers should consider initially, because …
Leadership Leaving Lockdown: Supporting Employee Mental health
Working in partnership with market-leading corporate Health & Wellbeing provider, Spectrum.Life, we are delighted to offer you free access to our brand new health and wellbeing platform.
Furlough Process – A Case Study
The Compassionate Office
It has been a whirlwind few months in relation to emergency remote work and with the relaxing of regulations in various countries, some companies are beginning to plan the phased return to the physical office.
Providing online mediation though Consumer Code for Online Dispute Resolution (CCODR) for SME’s throughout the UK.
Recognising that one of the biggest challenges facing SME’s generally is the non-payment of invoices for services and/or goods, the ability to mediate a dispute quickly whilst keeping costs down is especially vital at this time.
Working Life After Furlough Key Issues
Working Life After Furlough Key Issues
SME Support Forum Northern Ireland 