This year Amelore are supporting LandAid, a charity that are on a mission to end youth homelessness. LandAid really stood out to us for the work they do with charity partners across the UK to help young people who are experiencing homelessness. By providing grants they support emergency bed spaces as well as the development of new, safe and affordable accommodation for vulnerable people.

Amelore would like to wish all our clients and contacts a very Happy Christmas and prosperous and peaceful New Year. As a company, we aren’t sending Christmas cards or gifts but instead plan to make a donation to a UK based charity in the New Year. This would be a financial donation but also our professional expertise without charge. If you have a favourite cause you’d like to share with us, we’d love to know more.

When it comes to the office Christmas party, when the alcohol starts to flow and everyone starts to relax and let loose, things could well get just a little bit messy. And no one is more aware of this than HR, who will, of course, be carefully considering the company’s reputation and thinking about its duty of care to all employees. Here is our checklist of things you may wish to consider when it comes to your office Christmas party in 2022.

Long working hours, intense anxiety, ongoing and overwhelming stress that feels all encompassing, extreme exhaustion no matter what you do and the feeling of unremitting pressure. Do any of these sound familiar to you?

Many people believe that if you have HR in your job title then you should action any people related task, no matter what that might be. I have lost count of the number of times a task has fallen to us simply because it ‘feels’ like it should be done by HR, when in reality it is far from my (or any HR professional’s) job description.

I recently conducted a poll on my LinkedIn asking whether HR professionals had ever been bullied in their place of work. The results were shocking to say the least, but sadly not massively surprising to me.

Here’s what we found…

Only with diverse teams can a business drive a better culture, enable innovation, increase its profitability and be more creative. And only then can it foster a happier workforce.

Why then, do we see that there is still an estimated two million people in the UK struggling to return to work after a significant period of time away from the workplace? And that 90% of these people are women?

Let’s be brutally honest here; employment law can be complex at the best of times and procuring tribunal indemnity insurance is no different.