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Published: 15 August 2026 | Last reviewed: 15 August 2026 Working out holiday entitlement for part-time employees is one of the most common sources of payroll error in UK small businesses. The principle sounds simple enough. Part-time staff are entitled to the same statutory 5.6 weeks of holiday as full-time staff, with that entitlement expressed in proportion to their working pattern. In practice, the arithmetic trips people up, particularly when bank holidays, shift patterns or mid-year...

Published: 12 August 2026 | Last reviewed: 12 August 2026 Every maintenance team divides its work into jobs it chose to do and jobs it was forced to do. Preventive maintenance is planned before a failure occurs. Reactive maintenance addresses a fault that has already happened but can safely wait in a queue. Emergency maintenance demands an immediate response because delay would create an unacceptable safety, compliance or operational risk. Reactive vs preventive maintenance is the...

Published: 5 August 2026 | Last reviewed: 5 August 2026 Every maintenance team has a list of jobs it has not got round to yet. That list is your maintenance backlog, and its existence is not a problem in itself. Backlogs become a problem when nobody knows how big the list is, how old the oldest item is, or which jobs on it could stop the business trading. Maintenance backlog management is the discipline of measuring, prioritising and steadily working through outstanding work so the backlog...