managing through the winter months
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Managing through the winter months can be a testing time for HR and employers. What do you need to think about in advance for your Christmas party? What can you do if your staff can't get to work because of bad weather or do you allow your staff to accept gifts from suppliers or are you worried that this could be seen as bribery? In the fast paced and really informative webinar, Joanne Vose and Nigel Gorski cover a variety of issues that raise their head at Christmas and in the winter. You can catch this webinar recording in our On Demand Webinar Playlist on You Tube here: http://bit.ly/1tbZiKITRANSCRIPT
Managing through the Winter Months
By: Joanne Vose
On: 19th November 2014 @ 13:00
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Managing Through the
Winter Months
November 2014
Nigel Gorski & Joanne Vose
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About Your Presenters
Nigel is a fully qualified chartered accountant with considerable people management and training experience. He has not only worked in industry and for one of the ‘big 4’ accountancy firms but now runs his own accountancy practice. Nigel has considerable business mentoring experience and delivers the following modules for The Business Springboard:
Finance for non financial managers – 1 day
Managing Performance – 1 day
Delivering exceptional customer service – 1 day
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Joanne holds an MA in Human Resource Management, is a fully qualified Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and is a qualified NLP Practitioner. With considerable experience in people management and training interventions, Joanne’s consultancy and training is valued by her clients for her practical and business orientated approach, providing a complete people management solution to support organisational goals.
Joanne delivers a number of modules for The Business Springboard, including The 4D Manager and the Leadership & Management Development Programme, both of which are recognised for progression to further education.
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Welcome
The Office Christmas Party
Christmas and the Tax Man
Winter Sickness
Bad Weather
Suppliers and the Bribery Act
Questions and Answers
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The Office Christmas Party
All good fun???
Employers duty of care
Party Policies
Harassment
Drugs & Alcohol
Religious Discrimination
Making Promises
Getting Home
Post-Party Absenteeism
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Christmas and the Tax Man – Bah
Humbug or Not?
The Christmas Party can be allowable for PAYE
purposes
It has to be available for all employees / partners
It must not exceed £150 per head else the whole
amount is taxable
Also applies to members of family and household as
guests!
VAT is recoverable on staff entertaining but not the
family element unless a ’charge’ is made
A modest gift is allowable – the Revenue give the
example of a turkey or ‘ordinary’ wine (so not Bollinger
then!)
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Winter Sickness
Do we see increased absence levels in the winter
months?
Genuine sickness absence
Duvet days and other ‘sickie’s’
Have a good policy and implement fairly & consistently
Support & consequences
Record & monitor
Measures to reduce:
Immunisations?
Flexible working?
Nigel asked me to remind you that the cost of a flu jab
for your employees is not seen as a benefit by HMRC
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Bad Weather
What do we do when employees are late or do not
attend due to adverse weather?
Holiday?
Unpaid leave?
‘Sickness’ absence?
Work from home?
Flexible hours?
Look at your culture
Would it be fair to discipline?
What are you looking to achieve?
Domestic leaves
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The Bribery Act 2010
This is a risk to organisations where particularly
customer supplier relationships exist
Definition is if someone ‘offers, promises or gives a
financial or other advantage to another person’
Being bribed – think about people who deal with
suppliers
Bribing a foreign public official
Failure of a commercial organisation to prevent bribery
Defence is based on ‘six principles’
Let’s run through the penalties
And finally some ideas to prevent it from happening
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