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Saxon HR Consultancy Ltd Human Resources Consulting Firm

20/10/2026

“We’ve never needed contracts. We all get on.”

And that might be completely true….

Right now.

But your employment contracts aren’t there for the days when everyone’s happy. They’re there for the day someone resigns and heads straight to your biggest client. Or when someone’s off sick and suddenly nobody is quite sure what they’re entitled to.

Employers are legally required to provide employees with a written statement of employment particulars from day one, but meeting the legal minimum and having contracts that properly protect your business aren’t necessarily the same thing.

If you’re running a business in Kent and your contracts are still the ones you downloaded from the internet in 2019, it might be time for a review.

Send Saxon HR Consultancy a message and we’ll help you work out where you stand.





18th October is World Menopause Day, and for a lot of small businesses it is still the conversation nobody quite knows h...
15/10/2026

18th October is World Menopause Day, and for a lot of small businesses it is still the conversation nobody quite knows how to start.

The good news is that most of what helps costs very little. Some flexibility around start times, somewhere cooler to work, and a manager who knows it is fine to ask how someone is getting on.

What tends to go wrong is the silence, followed by a performance conversation about something that was never really about performance. Our small business toolkit covers what to put in place.

https://www.saxonhrconsultancy.co.uk/supporting-employees-through-menopause-a-small-business-toolkit/




Think back to a dismissal you handled in March. Could you still explain, in writing, exactly how you got there?From the ...
13/10/2026

Think back to a dismissal you handled in March. Could you still explain, in writing, exactly how you got there?

From the 1st of October you may well have to, because the window for bringing a tribunal claim has doubled from three months to six. Swipe for what that changes day to day, and book a call if you would like somebody to check your records would hold up.

https://www.saxonhrconsultancy.co.uk/employment-rights-bill/




08/10/2026

The person you’re interviewing today could have unfair dismissal protection six months after they start.

From 1 January 2027, the qualifying period for ordinary unfair dismissal protection drops from two years to six months…

AND employees who already have six months’ service by that date will gain that protection too.

That makes your probation process more important than ever.

A calendar reminder and a quick chat at the end of probation isn’t much of a process. You need clear expectations, proper reviews and a record of the support and feedback you’ve given along the way.

If your probation process currently relies on a bit of hope and an Outlook reminder, now is the time to sort it.

Get in touch with Saxon HR Consultancy for support.





The time limit for bringing most employment tribunal claims increased on 1st October from three months to six.In practic...
06/10/2026

The time limit for bringing most employment tribunal claims increased on 1st October from three months to six.

In practice it means the dismissal you handled back in the spring could still surface in the autumn. It also means your paperwork has to survive twice as long, and the manager who ran the process may well have moved on by the time anybody asks him about it.

None of this calls for panic. It does mean the way you record decisions matters more this week than it did last week.




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01/10/2026

Nobody puts intermittent absence on a risk register, and then it quietly eats a fortnight of productivity a year.

Here is what you can actually do about it.

🔗Link in our bio.




29/09/2026

Three things business owners tell us every week… and all three sound completely reasonable.

The problem? They’re also wrong.

A verbal warning can count.
Being signed off sick doesn’t automatically prevent a dismissal process.
And probation doesn’t mean employment rights don’t apply.

HR is full of assumptions that sound like common sense, until they leave your business exposed.

Before acting on what you think the rules are, make sure you know where you actually stand.

Need support with an employee situation? Get in touch with our team.




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An investigation that was rushed at the start cannot be rescued at the end, however good the outcome looks on paper.

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It is the nicest sentence we hear and it is the one that costs the most.Contracts are not there for the good years. They...
22/09/2026

It is the nicest sentence we hear and it is the one that costs the most.

Contracts are not there for the good years. They are there for the week somebody leaves and takes half your client list with them, or the month somebody is signed off and nobody can work out what they are actually entitled to.

You have to give a written statement of particulars on day one. That is the legal minimum, and the legal minimum is not the same thing as a document that protects you. If yours were downloaded in 2019 or borrowed from a friend who runs a very different business, they are probably not doing what you think they are.

https://www.saxonhrconsultancy.co.uk/hr-documentation-in-kent/




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Sittingbourne

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5:15pm

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