HR & Employment
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Your workplace is a home away from home. You’ve worked hard to cultivate an office environment that is welcoming, productive and ensures your team feel valued every day.
Haddletons’ HR is the ideal choice for businesses who are looking for a HR partner who will become a valued member of your work family.
By combining the commercial expertise and warmth of our HR team with the employment law knowledge of our solicitors, we will help you create a truly positive, supportive and productive working environment for your team and your business.
Understand your obligations
To many businesses, how best to support their team can be a real challenge. How do I make my staff feel appreciated? How do I ensure everyone is treated with respect?
Without a dedicated HR leader on your side, critical aspects of an employee’s wellbeing can become neglected. myHR is the holistic solution to boosting performance through integrated and friendly day-to-day HR support.
Create a robust HR Strategy
If you organisation has unanswered HR questions, this service was designed with you in mind.
The Haddletons team will work in partnership with you to create a robust HR strategy that takes your staff from initial interview to the day they retire, and makes sure you have the advice you need to address any issues along the way.
The myHR
Fundamentals
£270
Per month (from)
The myHR Whole
Kit and Caboodle
£700
Per month (from)
| What's included? | ||
| Audit of existing HR/Employment provision | ||
| New employee documents and checklists | ||
| Template letters forms & documents | ||
| Designated point of contact | ||
| Unlimited phone & email support* | ||
| Discounted legal & training fees | ||
| Monthly newsletter | ||
| Full day visit to audit and develop strategy plan | ||
| Bespoke employment contracts and handbook | ||
| Site visits as required** | ||
| Monthly call with managers | ||
| Project-based support- in line with strategy | ||
| Confidential phone & email support for employees | ||
| Ongoing systems & process reviews | ||
*DURING WORKING HOUR
**BUSINESS SIZE +20 EMPLOYEES ONLY
How Our HR Experts Can Help You
Scaling your business can quickly have you facing numerous HR challenges that often become unmanageable without dedicated support.
The Haddletons HR team are here to address the day-to-day complexities of staff, regulation and process, in addition to implementing a holistic strategy to accommodate continued growth.
Our HR add on services
Safety
From £250
PCM
From £250
PCM
Admin
From £270
PCM
Software
From £25
PCM
Board Service
From £250
PCM
Contracts
From £500
PCM
* all figures are exclusive of VAT and are subject to our Terms & Conditions.
An employee handbook is a collection of documents and policies intended to provide your staff everything they need to know about working within your organisation.
As a business owner you have a legal obligation to have certain policies in place. Although a handbook is not a legal requirement, best practise would suggest that these policies, and other critical procedures, should be outlined clearly to new staff.
A tailored handbook from our HR specialists will ensure each new hire can hit the ground running.
No it’s not all about policies and procedures, but they, are necesessary as a starting point!
Our myHR Basic Contracts Plan ensures that you have everything that you need legally, as well as some really helpful additions.
Most importantly, we spend time taking you through the documents so you know exactly what they mean and how to use them.
Training is critical if you want your team to understand and implement your ethos in their everyday working life. The myHR team can create bespoke training packages to impart valued based training of all kinds, from conflict management to mediation and management skills.
Our expert legal knowledge also means we’re able to deliver courses to keep you compliant, such as fair recruitment and equality & diversity training.
A complete and up-to-date policy library allows you to operate with the confidence that expectations and procedures are clear to staff and leadership.
An effective framework of policies will also help your business avoid a huge variety of problems and, in some cases, keep you on the right side of the law.
The Haddletons’ HR team can draft your latest policies, advise on policy revisions and keep you abreast of any legal requirements.
An integral part of performance management, appraisals should be held regularly to provide insight to staff on identified successes and improvement opportunities.
These sessions are sometimes perceived as difficult for employers, particularly if the business needs to be critical of an employee’s performance.
A bespoke appraisal system can help alleviate these concerns, ensuring both employee and employer receive actionable feedback and direction for the future.
Disciplinary procedures are an unpleasant but often necessary part of running a business. Specifically intended to address conduct or performance issues, this process needs to be designed with transparency in mind and supported with written documentation.
In more severe scenarios it may be lawful to dismiss a member of staff, depending on the situation and provided you followed a fair and reasonable dismissal procedure. Getting this wrong could see you facing unfair or wrongful dismissal claims.
With a Haddletons’ HR specialist on your team, you can be confident that you’re acting fairly at every stage.
Employment Law
How our Solicitors Can Help You
It can be easy to accidentally run afoul of the law when making decisions that impact your team members.
Our myHR legal team offers expert legal advice that puts your business and your people ahead of process and procedure, allowing you to be sure that you’re making decisions that are fair and legal.
Protecting your business from unfair dismissal and discrimination claims is a real concern, as these types of claims continue to become more popular each year.
Policies and procedure are the primary protector against these actions, as they offer clear guidelines on how staff should be treated during employment or upon dismissal.
We’ll help you create the necessary policies and procedures, in addition to defending you should any such claims arise.
When business functions or roles become obsolete, there may be requirement for redundancies.
A fair and legal redundancy process can be complex to manage but is crucial if your organisation wants to avoid any accusations of impropriety that could end in court action.
Our employment law experts will guide you every step of the way, outlining precisely what information must be presented and which processes completed when placing staff at risk of redundancy.
Your employees are legally entitled to privacy and confidentiality. The laws pertaining to these subjects address everything from personal data protection to kind of surveillance you can use to monitor staff and premises.
You’ll need a comprehensive understanding of these laws to keep you compliant. With a Haddletons’ trained solicitor at your side, you’ll get the advice you need to protect yourself and your employees.
When facing accusations of unfair dismissal, discrimination, unpaid wages or other damaging claims against your business, you may be required to address an employment tribunal.
Our expert legal knowledge will be an invaluable tool in advocating for your business, defending claims and managing settlement offers.
As part of our commitment to transparency on pricing, if you wish to see the likely costs associated with us representing you in an Employment tribunal claim for unfair or wrongful dismissal, please click the button below.
TUPE regulations mean that your employees must be protected in the event that your organisation, or part of it, is transferred to another business or employer.
These protections include a wide variety of guarantees on working conditions and benefits. Our solicitors will keep you in line with regulation and ensure you avoid any costly legal proceedings.
Health & Safety
We believe that health & safety advice need not be complicated. We provide all our clients with friendly, simple, no-nonsense advice to help protect your business.
Our H&S consultants have the depth of knowledge and experience to help you ensure legal compliance and implement best practice procedures. We can even act as your competent person if required. Your bespoke health and safety system will be delivered in a clear, user-friendly electronic format.
Read more about some of the H&S services we offer are:
Insurance
We provide an insurance backed service with indemnity against the costs of legal action and any awards made as a result, up to £100,000.
No matter how you run your business, workplace complications happen. Our Employment Tribunal Insurance provides professional legal support and peace of mind. The cover provides extensive protection against the cost of employment disputes and prosecutions brought against your business. Our experienced Haddletons employment team will carry out a thorough employment health check and provided that the recommended employment practices are in place, your business will be fully protected against legal costs.
Employment legal costs could be, for example:
- Employment disputes (including TUPE) & compensation awards
- Employment restrictive covenants
- Compliance & regulation
- Employees’ extra protection & identity theft
- Let us support your business and your people with our Employment Law Scheme insurance
HR Admin
HR administration can be time consuming – having someone to make sure you have up-to-date staff records for all your employees, someone to deal with all of the paperwork required for new starters, leavers and everything in between.
Haddletons’ myHR Admin can offer you all the functions of a fully qualified HR administrator but at a fraction of the cost of employing one. Giving you the same peace of mind but without the salary!
Our HR Admin service will give you the support and tools you need to effectively manage your employees. Use our expertise and efficiency to get the job done!
Our package includes:
- New Starter administration – offer letters, contracts etc
- Manage pre- and post-employment references
- Check eligibility to work including visas
- Maintenance of HR Files (manual and electronic)
- Produce all relevant contract variation documentation
- Record sickness absence and liaise with payroll as required
- Record maternity/paternity absence and liaise with payroll as required
- Liaise with payroll on pension administration
- Leaver administration
- Provision of web-based HR record keeping software
HR Software
Using a HR software system as a solution for managing employees seems like a bit of a no brainer these days! The day of the Excel spreadsheet is no more! And as your business grows, you want a software system that can grow with you.
There are lots of different software solutions out there, so which to choose? At Haddletons, we work with a handful of leading providers – getting our clients preferential rates and ensuring that we are very familiar with the systems ourselves so we can support or administer for you as required.
Give us a call today to get a quote for HR software to support your business.
Take a look at two of the providers we work with for more information:
HR Sounding Board Service
You might have might have your own HR person. But there are still times when they wish they could pick up the phone and get some quick advice from an expert. Someone to ask: “I’m thinking of doing this, what do you think?”
Our Sounding Board service is just that – a way for your HR people to bounce ideas off our HR people!
Our package includes:
- Bespoke employment contracts
- Privacy notice
- Grievance policy
- Disciplinary policy
- Template offer letter
- Template new joiner forms
- Contract amendments as necessary
HR Basic Contracts
No it’s not all about policies and procedures, but they, are necesessary as a starting point!
Our myHR Basic Contracts Plan ensures that you have everything that you need legally, as well as some really helpful additions.
Most importantly, we spend time taking you through the documents so you know exactly what they mean and how to use them.