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When dignity and respect are enforced as core workplace values through up-to-date policies and frequent training, employers can lay the foundation for a healthy and positive workplace for all their employees.

If you would like to create such a culture, join our upcoming workshop which will include tips on:

✅ Raising awareness on what bullying and harassment is;
✅ How to recognise the signs of bullying or harassment;
✅ How to tell the difference between bullying and harassment;
✅ Ways to ensure all employees are aware of their responsibilities to protect their workplace from this kind of behaviour.

📆 Tues 23rd July
⏰ 9am-1pm
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/dignity-respect-work-tickets-927152446927

Want to join a dynamic growing team? We are hiring!

The successful candidate will receive exposure to working with our large client base across several sectors, 25 days annual leave, access to our career pathway, and bonus potential in addition to a competitive salary.

Find out more about the role here: https://www.peninsulagrouplimited.com/ie/about/careers/hr-consultant-graphite/

As a manager, it’s crucial to stay aware of employment law updates, how they affect employees, and what your legal obligations as a supervisor are.

Join us for our HR Essentials workshop where we will provide guidance on:

✅ How to manage absence
✅ How to deal with misconduct
✅ Employment contracts and documentation
✅ Weekly and daily rest breaks and rest periods
✅ Running a disciplinary procedure
✅ Handling a grievance
✅ Managing leave entitlements

📆 Tues June 11th
🕙 9am-5pm
🔗https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/hr-essentials-for-managers-tickets-911891049677?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=webcast

We started the month with Easter Monday, the May public holiday is on the horizon, and from May 7th onwards Ireland will be halfway through it's 10 public holidays.

Brush up on employee entitlements for public holidays here in our recent blog post:

Public Holiday Benefits – Employee Entitlements | Graphite HRM With St Patrick’s Day soon approaching, it’s important to ensure employers are aware of what employees are entitled to a public holiday benefit and how to calculate each employees benefit.

Happy Easter from everyone here at Graphite!! 🍫🥚

The Easter Bunny visited our office and brought Easter Eggs for all our staff! After all their hard work, we think it's more than well-deserved 💪

🍀From everyone here at Graphite Face2Face we'd like to wish you a great Saint Patrick's Day!!🍀

Unsure of what counts as working time for those who are constantly on the road? Find out the answer on our blog! 👇

https://www.graphitehrm.com/travel-time-and-working-time/

Travel Time and Working Time – Case Law Employers Need to Know Our Employment Law and HR Experts share key learning points from recent case examples relating to travel time and working time for employees.

As an employer you must let your staff know that bullying in the workplace will not be tolerated. You can help ensure that your workplace culture does not tolerate bullying by getting both your management team and the employees involved.

We discuss this further in the article below.

How to manage bullying in the workplace - Graphite HRM As an employer, you need to let all your staff know that bullying (or harassment of any kind) will not be tolerated.

Office romances can be a complicated situation for both the employee and the employer. They bring risks of conflicts of interests, potential complaints around favouritism and abuses of power.

Employers must ensure that the possible situations that can arise from workplace romances are handled correctly.

Here we take a look at ten tips for employers in handling an office romance.

https://www.graphitehrm.com/10-tips-for-handling-an-office-romance/

10 tips for handling an office romance - Graphite HRM Graphite HRM is a leading HR and employment law advice and support service. Call us on 01 886 0350

The Workplace Relations Commission tends to direct employers to pay large sums in compensation in sexual harassment claims.

As well as the financial risk, there are reputational consequences for businesses that fail to take a proactive approach to preventing sexual harassment.

To protect their position, employers should follow certain steps. Let’s take a closer look below…
https://www.graphitehrm.com/an-employers-defence-to-sexual-harassment-claims/

An employer's defence to sexual harassment claims - Graphite HRM As well as the financial risk, there are reputational consequences for businesses that fail to take a proactive approach to preventing sexual harassment.

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