Human Resources & Employment Law

What Are Your Main Requirements Under Employment Law?

Traditionally, employment law has been one of the most uncertain areas, even for HR and legal professionals. You only need to open the nearest newspaper to find an article involving an unfair dismissal claim and the large amounts of compensation involved. How can your organisation be sure not to become involved in such cases?

As a responsible employer, your main requirements under employment law include:-

• A commitment to ensuring that all of your employees are able to work in an environment free from unlawful discrimination, and that promotes equality of opportunity and good relations between employees.

• Employees must be treated with dignity, respect and equality, regardless of inappropriate distinctions such as gander, race, nationality, ethnic identity, religious beliefs, disability, age, sexual orientation or trade union activity.

• Equal opportunities must be ensured in areas such as recruitment, training provision and promotion of staff.

These requirements are governed by several acts and regulations and failure to meet their requirements will result in employment tribunal and large compensation payouts along with damage to your reputation as an employer.

Crownford's Approach To HR Management

Our Human Resource service has been developed with the complexities of employment law in mind. Crownford will work with you to ensure that the policy that we put in place demonstrates that your organisation employs good management practice and provides the proof thereof.

The use of our system will create the systems and records vital for tribunal success and if used as a part of daily operations will prevent tribunal action arising in the first place.

In short, our Human Resource services provide protection through prevention.

To ensure that the expert advice that you need is always available, you will have access to our telephone advice line regardless of the level of service you subscribe to.

Crownford's Human Resource Service

As part of Crownford's approach to Human Resource Management several key areas are addressed to allow development of a management system. The service elements below are separated into two areas, developmental and reactive elements.

The developmental service elements are:-

01 - HR Management System Audit
02 - Production of Main Terms & Conditions of Employment by
        Employee Consultation
03 - Introduction to Terms & Conditions of Employment by
        Employee Consultation
04 - Production of HR Management Systems Manual / Employee
        Manual
05 - Familiarisation with HR Manual for Managers / Supervisors
06 - Policy Advancement and Development
07 - Legal / HR Practice Updates
08 - Impact Review
09 - HR Management System Review

In addition, the reactive service elements are:-

10 - Telephone Advice Line
11 - Attending Disciplinary Action
12 - Attending Redundancy Consultation Meetings
13 - Attending Grievance Hearings
14 - Attending Long Term Sickness Absence Meetings
15 - Attending Appeal Hearings
16 - Dispute Management
17 - Employment Tribunal Representation

For further information on Crownford's Human Resource Management services please contact us and ask to speak with one of our Business Managers.