Weekly Roundup – Week 41
We’re Hiring!
Job Title – Manufacturing Trainer
Do you have experience in delivering training sessions?
Due to recent successes and business growth we’re expanding our delivery team and are looking for talented professionals who are passionate about training.
The role will involve delivering bespoke pre-employment training aligned to the manufacturing industry and our clients to prepare our candidates to be work ready.
If you’re interested in the role or would like to hear more then please contact Kelly Lee / kelly.lee@gempartnership.com for a confidential conversation.
World Mental Health Day
Today is World Mental Health Day. This year’s theme set by the World Federation of Mental Health is workplace mental health. The theme highlights the importance of addressing mental health and wellbeing in the workplace, for the benefit of people, organisations, and communities.
At GEM, our Better Health at Work team have organised a dress down day, tea & talk time for our office based staff and those that are based on client sites and various fun quizzes to raise money today.
It also seems a very apt time to mention that we provide fully fundable training in relation to mental health and its workplace setting:
– Level 2 Award in Introduction to First Aid for Mental Health
– Level 2 Award in Introduction to Mental Health Awareness
– Level 3 Award in Understanding Mental Health for Managers
If you think this training could be a benefit to you, or those within your team then reach out!
Monthly Spotlight
Returning for October, it’s our Spotlight series
This month we have a first, in that we’re highlighting two members of the GEM Partnership team, Beth Conley and Stacey Spence, both of whom have been integral in the businesses development recently… continue reading
GEM Partnership – We’re Hiring!
Employability Tutor
Permanent
Maintenance Technician – Middlesbrough
Maintenance Technician – Stanley
Receptionist / Admin (Part Time) – Ferryhill
Temporary
Facilities Technician – Newton Aycliffe
Production Operative – Peterlee
Laser Operative – Ferryhill
CNC Operator – Ferryhill
Production Operative – Middlesbrough
Warehouse Operative – Billingham
Production Operative (Multiple Shifts) – Newton Aycliffe
Production Operative – Washington
Focus on: UK Government’s Make Work Pay Plan
The UK Government intends to bring in significant changes to employment law through its plan to ‘Make Work Pay’. The centre piece of this will be their Employment Rights Bill, introduced into parliament on 10 October 2024… continue reading
Employment rights bill: what businesses need to know
The government is set to publish its employment rights bill today (10 October), encompassing 28 individual reforms to boost pay and productivity and improve security for workers.
The bill removes the two-year qualifying period for protection from unfair dismissal, as well as introducing day-one rights to paternity leave, parental leave, bereavement leave and statutory sick pay. It also makes flexible working the ‘default’ from day one for all workers, unless an employer can prove it is unreasonable… continue reading
