HR Updates
Paternity Leave Rights have been altered - April 2011
Paid Paternity leave, of either one or two consecutive weeks, is available to eligible fathers. Such leave is offered for fathers (or those who share responsibility for the child’s up bringing with their partner).
Eligible employees can now also take up to 26 weeks Statutory Paternity Leave to care for their new baby. The leave can be taken from 20 weeks after the baby is born until the date of the child’s first birthday. For adopted children the leave starts 20 weeks after the child has been placed for adoption and ends at 52 weeks after placement.
Calculating your staff turnover figures
It is useful to monitor your staff turnover so that you can check out trends against your competitors and analyse whether you are losing more or less staff year on year as a proportion of your total number of employees. The following formula is used to work this out.
Number of Staff leaving in the period x 100 = Staff turnover
Average number of staff employed in the period
This formula can be used to calculate total number of leavers and also different groups, for example resignations, dismissals or retirements. By selecting different part of the business you are able to determine if there is a higher turnover is certain departments. The formula can be used for calculating monthly, quarterly, and annual trends.
