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    Scheduling software recommendations

    We're currently using excel to schedule out 6 or so staff for a small cafe. It works reasonable well until we need to change something and then it becomes a head ache lol! Anyone got any suggestions - I've had a go on Homebase which was ok but it didn't seem to fairly allocated shifts when...
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    Best staff holiday tracking software - possibly linked to payroll ?

    Thats what I was wondering, because I see it as 2 separate things hours and pay. Which are different. But if pay/hours is at a ratio of 1:1 . On the basis that your not working variable hours. Your working fixed hours. It just so happens that the fixed hours period is instead of being weekly is...
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    Best staff holiday tracking software - possibly linked to payroll ?

    I've done bit more reading around and I found this website here https://www.davidsonmorris.com/annualised-hours/ Which says about annual hours For example, if the working day is 7.5 hours’ long, for five days a week, then the working week is 37.5 hours and the total for one year would be 1,950...
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    Best staff holiday tracking software - possibly linked to payroll ?

    I think I was trying to avoid the issue of variable hours on a minimum of 20 by instead turning it into a fixed annual amount of hours? I was proposing that they have an average of 30 hours per week over the year (30x52=1560 hrs). Within a range of 20 to 40 hours per week (to give employee some...
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    Best staff holiday tracking software - possibly linked to payroll ?

    I have had a slight further thought about this for the calculation with variable hours. If you can accurately predict the hours over a longer period. Say with an annual hours contract then you could have terms and conditions which state something like: Annual hours of 1560. Hours of work...
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    Parcel firms failing to deliver on performance

    I would agree, I recall in the summer before CityLink went bust they were offering any parcel up to 20kg Next day for £5.70+Vat How on earth that would be sustainable! I did find out after the OP had written about DHL vs DHL Parcel (formerly UK Mail) and it seems that the quality of service...
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    Staff Holidays 2022

    Thank you for posting I had forgotten about the jubilee. We just give 5.6 weeks off per year so I can't imagine it'll be any different. Might ask for volunteers in the first instance though to see who wants to come in
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    Parcel firms failing to deliver on performance

    The problems of price demand has led to closures? I'd agree if thats what you mean, may well be heading in to price rises as competition decreases
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    Parcel firms failing to deliver on performance

    I think its interesting the way the market has changed in the last few years. CityLink gone, UKMail folded in to DHL, TNT stopped doing UK to UK parcels as part of FedEx and UPS seem to have got a lot cheaper! I'd recommend anyone having a look at UPS now as they've come down a lot in price.
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    Long time no see - who's got opinions about HS2?

    I have to say I think the now cancelled Leeds - Bradford - Manchester would have been a much better way to spend money. People needs to get around the north more than they need to get to the south. Leeds to London is about 2hrs and a bit and that is fine for most people. but Bradford to...
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    Best staff holiday tracking software - possibly linked to payroll ?

    Hi Nexilis I have had a look at breathe with the 2 week free trial. Seems a bit limited in my opinion. Such as holiday is calculated in either hours or days - no option for weeks, which as Newchodge always reminds folk on here the best way to do it is in weeks - especially in contracts etc...
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    Best staff holiday tracking software - possibly linked to payroll ?

    I do agree it leaves you in a very difficult position. It becomes very tempting to make sure all staff are on fixed hours per week at a fixed hourly rate that doesn't vary then you can work out holiday pay with great ease. E.g. for 1 week of the 5.6 at 8.91 working 24 hours per week you just...
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    Valuing a pub

    I think if you market it right you can make a success of a pub still. Particularly village pubs by going in to the experience - a pub not too far from us has been nicknamed beamish because its very traditional inside coal fires etc.. but does very well with tourists. Recruiting is harder and...
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    How do you dismiss a ‘good’ employee that just isn’t right?

    I would have thought that if an employee had raised with you that a colleague had been rude to them about x/y/x then that might prompt you to have a meeting with them about it - maybe an appraisal and it could be part of that?
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    What is this Fire and Re-Hire business

    Oh I did not know that. I presume then its because like you say the job still needs doing and you still can do the job, It might just be you won't get double pay on a bank holiday any more etc... or whatever else the changes were. Then British Gas etc would have saved on the 12 weeks redundancy...
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