One of the key guiding principles of Data Protection legislation is that personal information should only be shared on a ‘need-to-know’ basis. Individuals who don’t need to know specific details about a person in order to do their job or to complete a task, shouldn’t be given access to those details. 

Wellbeing is more than an avoidance of becoming physically sick. It represents a broader construct that includes physical, mental and social health. Employers play a key role in how employees feel at work and this will have a direct correlation on how well they perform.

Honeydew’s contact centre partner, Ventrica, goes from strength to strength. Ventrica help deliver Honeydew’s Day-1 Absence Reporting service, which runs on the Engage platform. Record number of awards for customer service in the last three years This year Ventrica has already won awards for ‘Best Outsourcing Partnership’ and ‘Best Advisor’ in the London & South […]

Did you know that EU law prevents employers from carrying over the first four weeks of employees’ statutory annual leave? The only exception is when an employee is unable to take the leave because of sickness absence. If the leave is not taken, it is lost. In the UK, employees are guaranteed 5.6 weeks of […]

A new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will soon replace the old Data Protection Act (1998). The GDPR will apply in the UK from 25 May 2018. The government has confirmed that the UK’s decision to leave the EU will not affect the commencement of the GDPR.

For the first time since 2009, XpertHR annual absence survey 2017 shows an average absence level above 3%. Among the 588 survey respondents that provided data on absence rates for 2016, the national average stood at 3.2% of working time, equivalent to 7.4 days per employee. To help compare with the preferred metric used in CIPD annual absence survey, […]

Proposal to incorporate OH into the NHS Occupational physician Ian Torrance and Faculty of Occupational Medicine president Richard Heron recently suggested in BMJ editorial that ‘integration of the clinical specialty of occupational health (OH) into the NHS is long overdue’. Their argument was based on a viewpoint that current OH provision in UK puts employees […]

Great news! Engage RTW tool for Android is now live in Google Play Store. The mobile app is free to download and can be used by any existing users of Engage web application. The features available in our app are currently restricted to the Return to Work (RTW) interviews, as the name suggests. The tool […]

In July 2013, new fees were introduced to pursue disputes against employers in the tribunal courts to defer employees from lodging unfounded claims. Type A claims for sexual harassment, unfair dismissal and discrimination cost claimants £1,200. Type B claims to recover unpaid wages or holiday pay cost the employees £390. This has had a major […]

We all know that feeling of coming back from holiday to hundreds of unread emails. At Honeydew, we decided to do our little bit to reduce that burden. In Engage, you can now set holiday periods when alerts are diverted to someone else or suspended altogether. This is a part of our new personal preferences […]