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The Employment Rights Act 1996 underpins contracts of employment in the United Kingdom.
The terminolgy to use is a written statement of particulars of employment. This summarises the main particulars of the employment relationship and must according to the legislation be given within two months of the person's first day of service.
Whilst the law states two months it would actually be poor form to encourage a person to give up an existing job or prior state of affairs without actually presenting them with the contractual terms of their new role until two months after it has started. The law is quite flexible but if we are truly focused on the quality of the engagement with the prospective member of staff the written statement of particulars really should be issued as soon as possible after the decision to appoint has been made.
Issuing the written statement of particulars at the earliest point means the person is aware of what they being contracted to and can clarify any uncertainties before accepting. Starting a relationship in this manner where possible helps ensure a more harmonious contract.
The key aspects of a written statement of particulars are as follows:
An explanation of the symbols used
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Welcome to the free website for people who want to learn about the technology used for keeping staffing details in offices. Using this site you can learn as much from the comfort of your arm chair as you could in two years at work. Here is your chance to practice with systems that you may only have heard about. Get a behind the scenes view of what happens with your information and how it is stored.
This site is aimed at people from school leaving age and above who may be interested in working with what are known as Human Resources (HR) information systems.
If we can help even one person to secure a job in HR or specialise in HR systems as a result of using our free development site then the creators of HRMISolutions and Learning in Small Bites will have achieved what we set out to do.
You will get the best out of this site if you have:
As you can guess anything that any of us do is actually a product of what we have seen, learned, experienced or contributed to. Below I will do my best to set out credits to those who were fundamental to sparking ideas that were subsequently built into the online systems on this site.
Other than authors of books, I have chosen not to actually name individuals but they know who they are and their contribution was that tipping point that helped the solutions either come into being or be improved. I remain grateful to each and every person who lent a sympathetic ear or expressed constructive opinions. Thank you.
Every so often in HR it is necessary to quickly check the current state of play in relation to best practice guidance. The ACAS website is possibly one of the most comprehensive and freely available resources in the UK. This will be abundantly clear when I get round to writing this site's case monitoring simulation.
Derived from work done in 2010 with the law faculty administration manager of a world class university.
This really was one of those ideas that just seemed to form into an information system solution as we talked. We were responding to results of a staff survey and trying to think through how to understand the breadth of administration work across the organisation and also importantly how to help administrators form networks.
Every so often in HR it is necessary to quickly check the current state of play in relation to best practice guidance. The CIPD website is probably the most comprehensive resource for UK practitioners. Much of its material is members only and some requires even further subscription. The public facing pages are an excellent way to keep abreast of issues whether one is in HR or thinking of joining. I feel it is a particularly useful resource for HR systems developers who want to keep up to speed with the needs of their operational and strategic HR colleagues.
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JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual, by McFarland, proved a very useful introduction to JavaScript and jQuery. My preference was to hand code each site page from a text editor (If you have watched the original Karate Kid it was a sort of 'wax on wax off' approach) so I used jQuery very sparingly. However, I sensed that if anyone wants to go the full JavaScript and jQuery root this is the book to use.
The pop up calendar that is used with some of the date fields on the site is from the jqueryui.com website. This has a selection of useful jQuery user interfaces. After spending a couple of days building my own pop calendar in PHP the jQuery UI offering reduced development time considerably.
Their site is well worth a visit.
The collapsable hierarchy was in place early in the project but I was using database calls. Initially each click would go off to the database and call back all of the rows to be displayed. Continuously querying the database seemed a heavy overload. Mentioning this to an information management colleague over dinner she suggested JavaScript's expand and collapse functionality. That was all that it needed.
Our current logo evolved from an early 2000s animated logo designed by NIVAG Design. It remains our representation of cyberspace. The current term to use is the Cloud. At HRMISolutions Ltd we still want to think just that little bit further into space.
When writing the new staff module it suddenly occurred to me that while we in HR take job specification writing for granted, it is actually not very easy to do on demand when faced with a blank sheet of paper and no one to interview. Perfect Phrases for Writing Job Descriptions by Martin proved very helpful in getting past attacks of writer's block.
This incredible book by Welling and Thomson proved an awesome well written easy to understand font of knowledge. The learning in this book is the equivalent of several thousand pounds of instructor led courses.
I worked with the 3rd edition but I do believe a 5th edition will soon be published.
php.net is invaluable and seems to be controlled by gurus of the PHP language. Can be a bit hard going sometimes but that is probably the case whenever one learns the technical background to a language.
The majority of our reporting section is built using the excellent reporting library developed by pChart
. This is a freely available for users whose work is not for profit.CyberMick is credited for the reminder that, whilst being pleasing to look at, 3D pie charts can distort the perceived size of each slice of the pie. More detail on this in the charting section.
Stack Overflow is billed as a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. I found it to be probably somewhere between W3Schools.com and the book PHP andMySQL Web Development.
Virtually ever enquiry I put in a search engine at some point came back with a Stack Overflow answer to a similar question. Accessing Stack Overflow is like being able to sit in a virtual group and listen to people's informed opinions on solving problems.
The beauty of coding is there are so many different ways to reach the same end. Sometime just looking at someone else's approach or issue stimulates branches in thought and ideas for ones own code.
This open source HTML editor is embedded in the application form on this site. It has proven useful in helping add formatted rich text content to the supporting statement page.
I found w3schools.com to be one of the best resources around for reminders on up to date language structures and rules when writing code. If the book PHP and Web Development is a physical font of knowledge then this site is the virtual equivalent. Best of all one can try out the code on line which is really helpful for anyone who learns as much by doing as theorising.
As languages evolve some coding syntax changes. For me, the best resource for keeping reasonably current was w3schools.com.
You may have noticed that the sum total of all of the compulsory resources above probably costs less than £500. The thing that probably costs the most is the intellectual capacity of HR analysts, process specialists, systems developers and information managers. Hopefully when you have worked through this development site you will be able to turn to an HR information specialist and say with a smile "Well done, you deserve credit for helping make HR technology accessible".
Niyi Founding Director and Systems Developer HRMISolutions Ltd September 2015
