Employment Law, HR, Health & Safety

Overview

If your business employs staff or contractors, you will face legal challenges in employment, health & safety and immigration

We take the worry out of compliance with employment law, health & safety law, and immigration law. The pace of legislative change can be bewildering so having experienced, commercially-minded advisers is essential.

We will protect you from the potential effects of employment tribunals, health & safety prosecutions, or immigration fines as well as advising you generally on all matters relating to human capital.

Our advisory team is drawn from a range of backgrounds and includes employment lawyers, HR practitioners, immigration lawyers, and health & safety and environmental practitioners.

They can work independently on defined projects or collaboratively across our offerings, providing seamless and practical advice and solutions.

We will also provide legal and consultancy support through the entire employment journey, from recruitment and selection of staff to their departure and all points in between, on a continuing or one-off basis.

Employment Law

Our advice is always be tailored to the commercial needs of a business. We understand that staying on the right side of employment law is not always the only goal; sometimes the interests of a business require difficult and immediate decisions to be taken on employees, and so we can advise how best to mitigate the impact of those decisions.

We can also manage any employment tribunals and advise on settlement agreements.

On an ongoing basis we offer audits of policies and procedures and make recommendations on compliance with current legislation or HR best practice.  We also provide monthly electronic updates on legislative changes and case law, as well as twice-yearly update seminars, and will meet with you as often as required to ensure a full understanding of your particular needs.

Health & Safety

We provide a full range of health & safety support services such as compliance audits, including management action plans, fire risk assessments, ongoing advice and crisis management, legal updating, prosecution costs insurance, and attendance at health & safety committee meetings.  We can also fulfil the role of Competent Person for your business.

HR Projects

We provide practical HR and employment law project support and work closely with clients to build and deliver a project to meet specific business needs rather than prescribe a ‘packaged’ approach.

Typically, HR Projects will include recruitment and selection, performance management, absence management, reward management, employee relations and change management, HR support with hearings and investigations, equalities, and survey work.

Training & Development

Managing people professionally, fairly, and competently can be challenging, especially through times of change.

Therefore, we offer a range of practical and interactive training and development courses and workshops covering issues such as recruitment and selection, absence management, performance appraisal, discipline and grievance, equality and diversity, bullying and harassment, redundancy handling, TUPE, restructuring and change management.

These are available on a stand-alone basis or can complement our employment law advisory service.