Services for Employers
Worklegal was conceived as a business support and development provider. To be successful, this has to be a combination of organisational development and document drafting that is designed to create and reinforce culture. Every business is different. The differences may not be very great in some instances, but solutions have to be designed specifically for your individual needs, while always avoiding reinventing the wheel. We have seen the awful results of using standard document packages or documents that have been cobbled together from ‘the best’ of other companies’ documents. They are often full of inconsistencies and counter-productive.
Worklegal will fine tune any aspect of the elements of the service offerings to ensure that you get a service that truly meets your needs and the aspirations of their business as they move forward.
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Support for HR function
Within HR departments of even the largest organisations, there are often shortfalls in resources or in expertise required for specific tasks. Some of the areas in which Worklegal regularly assists clients include:
- recruitment and selection – minimising the risk of unlawful discrimination during the process; introducing and monitoring performance appraisal;
- drafting contracts of employment;
- drafting employment policies;
- dealing with potentially contentious issues like redundancy, discipline and grievance;
- dealing with the people issues arising from mergers, transfers and
re-organisations;
- providing advice on lost time reporting and management of unauthorised and sickness absence and back to work interviews;
- advising on and handling Employment Tribunal claims.
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Conducting Investigations
Most managers would recognise that having accurate information is fundamental to reaching an informed and reasonable decision about an important business issue. Somehow, however, they generally don't have the time, the inclination or the experience to investigate serious people issues in the workplace properly. This is a great example of the old adage 'a stitch in time saves nine’, but the result is often an unnecessary tribunal claim with costs vastly out of proportion to the cost of time that would have been necessary to get it right in the first place. In many cases emotions get in the way, objectivity goes out of the window and somehow a rollercoaster of assumptions takes over. This can result in compensation awards of several tens of thousands of pounds and substantial costs, but the real impact to organisations is far greater. They can lose important employees and seriously sour the perception of those that remain. Experience shows that this can happen in the simplest of situations as well as in very complicated ones and in businesses of all sizes.
Worklegal can provide a cost effective solution to minimise these dangers.
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