enlighten HR

09/06/2026

The 2026 World Cup kicks off on 11 June and runs until 19 July. With matches hosted across Canada, Mexico and the USA, UK kick-off times will range from 5pm all the way through to 5am. That means a wave of leave requests, a few bleary-eyed Monday mornings, and some conversations you need to be ready for.

Whether your team are passionate football fans or couldn’t care less, a major tournament affects the workplace. Leave requests cluster around fixtures. Sickness spikes after big games. And if you’re not consistent in how you handle requests, you can end up with grievances that have nothing to do with football and everything to do with fairness.

The good news is that none of this is difficult to manage well. It just takes a bit of planning before kick-off.

Read more in our latest article 👇

The World Cup 2026 runs from 11 June to 19 July. With late-night kick-offs and a flurry of leave requests, here’s how to manage it fairly and keep your business running.

05/06/2026

What more can we say... this is exactly how we love to work with all of our clients!

03/06/2026

The concept of enlightenHR is that you should feel that we are an integral part of your business, providing HR support remotely but at a fraction of the cost of an in-house HR team.

Your dedicated HR team made up of a Senior HR Business Partner, supported by a Senior HR Advisor and an HR Co-Ordinator.

You can find out more and book a free initial consultation on our website: enlightenhr.com

01/06/2026

We are proud to be Platinum partner's of Breathe which enables us to provide this fantastic cloud-based HR system to our retained clients at no extra cost.*

Some of the features include:

📍Centralise user data
📍Manage user absence
📍Streamline reports
📍Organise documents
📍Track expenses
📍Set permissions & organise
📍Boost performance
📍API system integration
📍Approve and monitor holiday requests

If you would like to find out more, please do not hestitate to get in touch with us via message or email [email protected]

30/05/2026

Always nice to finish on a positive at the end of the week! Well done Debbie 👏

28/05/2026

This case highlights a growing challenge for employers.

When employees feel upset or uncertain, AI-generated “legal advice” can amplify risk, often without context or accuracy.

Having structured, expert HR guidance ensures that legitimate business decisions are protected by clear process, documentation and confident communication.

If you are navigating redundancy, restructure or any sensitive people matter, early advice prevents unnecessary escalation.

If you would like to review your redundancy processes or strengthen your risk management approach, speak to our team today or book a free HR consultation here.

https://enlightenhr.com/navigating-redundancy-risk-in-the-age-of-ai/

26/05/2026

This is a great webinar from our partners Breathe - we recommend all business owners take the time to watch it and ensure they are up to date with all the latest employment changes.

April 2026 brought some of the biggest employment law changes in years.

Statutory Sick Pay now starts from day one. Holiday pay records need to be kept for six years. And a new government body, the Fair Work Agency, is now checking whether employers have the basics in place.

For leaders running growing businesses, the risk isn't usually the big, obvious mistakes. It's the small, everyday stuff that quietly slips.

Our on-demand webinar with Jemma Fairclough-Haynes (Orchard Employment Law), Juliet Irving (Impact HR) and Oli Moreton (Littler Mendelson), hosted by our own Bharat Siyani, breaks down what changed, what the Fair Work Agency is actually looking for, and what's coming in October.

Watch on demand here. 👉 https://bit.ly/42LbFZu

23/05/2026

With your very own enlightenHR business partner providing you with HR advice and support, whenever you need it, you feel as though enlightenHR is your own HR department – integral to your organisation, knowing you, your business, your previous issues, your particular staffing profile and the capabilities of your management team.

It’s a lifeline, really… Offering peace of mind and specialist HR support at a fixed, annual rate. You’ll tell us the people who can access the Advice Line service and you can relax, knowing that you will always speak to your dedicated HR team. Before your contract starts you’ll have a ‘getting to know you’ Zoom call or a meeting, so that you’ll feel a professional HR team has your back.

Each of our advisors has at least ten years’ experience of working in operational HR at a senior level. They are pragmatic, business-oriented individuals whose focus is to find the right solutions for you and your business; explaining the legal requirements in easy to understand language and identifying and advising on risks where these exist.

Please feel free to email us at [email protected] if you would like to have a chat about your business.

19/05/2026

We recently supported a client in just such an incident when one of their managers witnessed another manager treating an employee in a manner that wasn’t in accordance with the company’s culture.

Using our own 'Business Owners Guide on Practical Grievances', we provided pragmatic and impartial advice using the following steps...

Read a grievance case study from enlightenHR, HR Consultants about a Manager’s Role in Empowering Employees to Speak Up

15/05/2026

He applied for 4,600 jobs. And threatened every one of them with a tribunal.

A real UK case from 2024 that sounds like fiction and what it reveals about the growing risk of AI-fuelled employment claims for businesses of every size.

Read more in our latest article on our website by clicking on the link below and feel free to comment!

Read our latest HR Advice article: "He applied for 4,600 jobs. And threatened every one of them with a tribunal." Your local HR consultants in Bristol, Bath and Torquay