Forward to a colleague View as a webpage Add us to your white list Quick Links »  Flexible working   Labour turnover   Survey   New on XpertHR   From our blogs Flexible working Flexible working policies and practice: 2013 XpertHR survey The latest XpertHR research on flexible working explores employers' policies and trends surrounding flexible working requests. It also examines the benefits and challenges of offering flexible working to employees. Good practice: Flexible working XpertHR's good practice guide on flexible working discusses the importance of flexible working arrangements, the issues involved in drawing up an organisational policy and the main types of flexible working. Top Labour turnover Good practice: Measuring labour turnover The latest addition to the XpertHR good practice manual identifies the steps that employers can take to monitor and manage labour turnover. It covers how to measure and analyse labour turnover patterns to identify the range of initiatives that can be developed to address staff retention problems. Top Take part in our research Absence and labour turnover rates Take part in our confidential ongoing research on absence and labour turnover rates to ensure you receive the most up-to-date figures. Top New on XpertHR › New Liveflo addition: Managing a reservist's mobilisation › New model letter and form on disruption to adoption leave › How to manage bank holidays › Survey reveals shape of pensions auto-enrolment Top From our blogs Pay forecasts, benchmarking and the best HR data posts XpertHR's HR data round-up for April 2013 looks at pay forecast data for 2013/14. We also provide links to all the latest additions to XpertHR Benchmarking and present our regular round-up of the best HR data blog posts. Employment tribunal decisions 08.04.13 to 14.04.13: Chef with severe nut allergy found to have disability A round-up of links to stories about employment tribunal rulings reported in the week beginning 8 April 2013, including a tribunal finding that a chef who has a serious allergic reaction when he comes into contact with all types of nuts has a disability and can proceed with his disability discrimination claim. What is the collective noun for HR folk? A murder of crows. A superfluity of nuns. A drunkenship of cobblers. There are an awful lot of poetic, pleasing and outright odd collective nouns out there. But there is not, as yet, a definitive, universally acknowledged collective noun for HR folk. Social media: 10 employment cases involving Facebook The news that Kent youth PCC Paris Brown has resigned after a Twitter row and two police employees resigned in 2012 for misuse of Facebook suggests that employers are still having issues with employees' social media activities. We round up 10 employment cases involving Facebook. Top Editor's message FLEIXIBLE WORKING BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES Latest research from XpertHR looks at the issue of flexible working, particularly the level of requests that employers are receiving, what proportion of the workforce is working flexibly, and the benefits and challenges of offering flexible working to employees. Our good practice guide on measuring labour turnover covers all aspects of measuring the outflow of people from an organisation. It includes the business case for monitoring and managing labour turnover, and outlines the distinction between voluntary and involuntary labour turnover. We also include a new workflow that guides employers step by step through the legal and practical considerations when an employee has been called out for a period of military service. While the employer cannot refuse to permit the employee to serve, where it believes that the employee's absence would cause "serious harm" to the business, it can apply for a deferral, revocation or exemption in respect of the mobilisation. Noelle Murphy Employment relations editor, XpertHR XpertHR calendar Keep up to date with all the major events and dates with our HR calendar. Get more out of XpertHR › Model policies › Good practice guides › Line manager briefings › Salary surveys Tools for subscribers › My XpertHR › User guide › Advanced search › XpertHR feeds Customer services › Password reminder › Email the helpdesk or call 0845 671 1110 › Read previous newsletters   Forward to a colleague xperthr.co.uk This email has been sent to luke.smith@rbi.co.uk Unsubscribe from future employment relations emails. Disclaimer: This message is intended only for the use of the person(s) ("Intended Recipient") to whom it is addressed. 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