Employee Relations

Employees have an ever-increasing number of employment rights relating to:

• Contracts of employment
  
  
• Discrimination, harassement and victimisation in respect of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation and religious belief and age
  
  
• Maternity, paternity and adoption
  
  
• Flexible working and Working time
  
  
• Discipline, grievance and unfair dismissal
  
  
• Redundancy consultation and process
  
  
• Privacy in the workplace

Given the development, expansion and complexity of these rights, most managers understandably have a very superficial knowledge of what they can and can’t do. Even where they think they know, they are often out of date.

This can be dangerous from two perspectives:

• Either they act without knowing the legal parameters, resulting in costly mistakes in damaged employee relations or compensation claims, or
  
  
• They are ‘scared’ to act because they believe that the law prevents them doing so

How can we help?

• We can run training courses to bring manager (and HR professionals) up to date on key issues
  
  
• We can help you with policy development and in producing procedures and/or guidelines
  
  
• We can advise on a case by case basis
  
  
• We can offer you an update service to keep you up-to date with developments