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Help for employers

Introduction

Employment law is a potential minefield of statutes, regulations, employment tribunal decisions and accepted practices and mistakes can be both costly and time consuming. As with many things, prevention is almost always better, and certainly cheaper, than cure. Employmentlawhelp can provide that preventative assistance.

Employmentlawhelp and Richard Nelson Solicitors have considerable expertise and experience in advising employers on a wide range of employment related matters and can assist at all stages, from routine advice to representation before Employment Tribunals.

From a preventative point of view , employmentlawhelp can assist you with:

  • planning and implementing processes and procedures – for example putting in place grievance procedures
  • drafting and reviewing employment contracts, staff handbooks and notices as to terms and conditions
  • drafting and revising anti-discrimination policies or helping you to implement reasonable adjustments
  • making arrangements for redundancies, including consultations with trade unions and staff representatives
  • handling dismissals, or
  • recruiting new staff

Alternatively, if problems have already arisen, employmentlawhelp can provide you with prompt, practical advice to help minimise the cost and risk of any claims, including:

  • dealing with problematical dismissals,
  • advice on redundancy situations,
  • dealing with allegations of discrimination,
  • handling grievances and disciplinary procedures,
  • representation in employment tribunal proceedings
  • issues arising from maternity and paternity rights, sick pay and the working time regulations
  • negotiating and implementing severance packages and drafting compromise agreements, and
  • problems arising from health and safety in the workplace issues.

How we can help you

Employmentlawhelp can assist you in several different ways and can put together a flexible package of assistance designed to meet the needs of your business. This can include:

Preventative and proactive assistance
Working with you to help with preventative work within your business – including looking at existing practices and procedures and suggesting ways in which they could be improved or updated.
Emergency assistance
When things gets out of hand, as they do from time to time, you can rely upon highly qualified employment team to be able to deal rapidly and effectively with problems and, where necessary, attend meetings or undertake representation in court.
Drafting documents
In order to ensure that all of your policies, standard employment letters and contracts are up to date we can work with you in drafting and amending all documents.
Employment Tribunal and court representation
Whether you are representing yourself or require representation, employmentlawhelp can help to ensure that you are prepared to present your employment law case in the most effective way. Our experienced solicitors are able to undertake advocacy on your behalf or, in the larger more complex cases, can assist you in instructing counsel.
Training and support
Ensuring that your staff and managers are properly trained and updated on legal and employment issues likely to affect them. This can be on a personal one-to-one or one-to-many basis or, if you are planning to train large numbers of staff on issues such as diversity or health and safety, can be by way of e-learning or similar distance learning methods.

No matter what help we provide to you, however, you can always be assured that it will be given in the most cost-effective and practical way possible, helping us to build a long-term working relationships with you and your business. We are acutely aware that the needs of businesses differ which is why we will take the opportunity to get to know your business and your needs and ensure that the services we deliver to you are delivered in such a way as to be relevant, considered and above all pragmatic.

For more information, or if you have a specific problem with which you would like some help, either phone employmentlawhelp on 084 4804 4800, request a free, no-obligation call-back using the form to the right, or email us on advice@employmentlawhelp.co.uk and we will be more than happy to discuss with you the precise needs which you have.