• What are your HR / People Operations New Year’s Resolutions for 2024?
  • Does your HR Operations need a full health check?
  • What is your HR key area that needs urgent care and attention?

For any business, HR topics should be part of your Strategic Goals Agenda for 2024. If it isn’t, have a read of the checklist below and see where your business is at in terms of being compliant and looking after your most important asset, your staff.

  • Have you implemented all the new HR legislative changes into your day to day activities from 2023 and what is expected of you for 2024?
    • For example, Sick Pay entitlements,
    • updated the probationary period to be set at 6 months
    • Looked at Flexible Working Options for your staff to apply for
    • Staff over 50+, do you have a Protected Disclosure Policy in place?
    • Updated Family Leave policies in line with new Leave for medical care purposes?
    • Changes to double employment entitlements

 

  • Does your HR Operations need a full health Check?
    • Do you have policies in place to reflect how things are being done in the company (holiday leave, absence management, performance management and flexible working options are a few examples)
    • Any new changes to your employee’s terms of employment (rate of pay, location, job title / duties and hours of work) have these been formally communicated?

 

  • What is your main HR key area that requires urgent care and attention?
    • Is there an elephant in the room when it comes to HR that you are not addressing and causing problems to the culture and the bottom line of the business?
    • Is retention an issue and why?
    • Are absences causing a problem and needs to be addressed in a more formal way?
    • Managing HR data an issue? Do you need a more structured HR database to streamline HR functions more efficiently?
    • No Employee Handbook and contracts of employment an issue?
    • Looking to formally reward employees in line with performance?
    • Employees looking for Flexible Working Options and no policy in place and what can work for the business?
    • Need to address mental health within the business; do we need to start making reasonable accommodations for mental health?

If any of the above is an area that your business would like to address, then please get in touch with Core Resource on geraldine@coreresource.ie