HR Plus – HR Advice for Employers

Some reasons you might need outsourced HR advice include:

• You need an investigation to be undertaken by someone who is external to the organisation (for instance, to demonstrate independence in the process or because your own managers are reluctant)
• Your organisation does not have its own dedicated HR team
• Your existing HR team is simply too busy or lack the specialist expertise you need for more challenging matters.

Whatever your requirements, our team of HR Business Partners can help. They work alongside our Employment Law team but attend client sites (or virtually) to deal with the issues for our clients.

Benefits of working with our HR Business Partners

• Manage your employees’ performance more effectively
• Respond quickly and with confidence to any issues that arise
• Reduce the risk of employment claims
• Avoid the potential for future problems with robust HR practices

We allow clients to access affordable ad hoc HR advice for employers, with the back-up of genuine specialist advice from lawyers where required. Our CIPD qualified and highly experienced HR Business Partners provide HR advice for small businesses and larger organisations looking for outside support.

Here are just a few of the things we can help with:

• Misconduct at work/disciplinaries
• Grievances
• Workplace mediation
• Improving staff performance, including absence management
• Staff changes such as redundancy and TUPE
• People Culture
• Amicable exits and Settlement Agreements

Don’t see the issue you need help with on the list? Our HR Business Partners are highly versatile, with the seasoned expertise to assist in the full range of situations most employers might find themselves facing.

Speak to our HR Business Partners today

If you’re looking for outsourced HR advice or employment law consulting, get in touch with our experts today.

Contact us on 0131 270 7700, visit our offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, East Lothian or Shetland or fill in our enquiry form at the bottom of the page to request a call back.

Misconduct at work/disciplinaries

Misconduct at work needs to be addressed promptly and effectively, while always being mindful of following a legally sound process. Failure to follow the right process could lead to employment claims for matters including discrimination and constructive dismissal.

Our HR experts can investigate misconduct allegations, hold hearings and issue outcome letters. This ensures a fair, independent process that allows you to take action with confidence that you are fully legally compliant.

Learn more about our expertise with misconduct at work and disciplinaries.

Grievances

Where an employee raises a grievance, it is important to respond appropriately. Your organisation needs to have robust grievance procedures in place and, crucially, those procedures need to be followed correctly if the need arises.

We can investigate grievances, chair meetings and make recommendations, helping to resolve any issues in a way that is fair and legal, while protecting your organisation and its wider interests. We can also provide tailored HR employment advice on any changes you may need to make to your employee management and grievance processes to help avoid the risk of future problems.

Learn more about our expertise with grievances at work.

Workplace mediation

Staff don’t always get on and we can’t expect them to. But when it gets in the way of staff wellbeing or performance of the business, then you will want to take action. Informal discussions can help.

Where required, however, we can provide our HR Business Partner, Fiona Gray, who is a qualified mediator, to help get to the bottom of the situation. Even if employees still don’t like each other, we help ensure that it won’t affect the business.

Learn more about our expertise with workplace mediation.

Improving staff performance, including absence management

We can help develop a strategy for improving performance across the organisation and we can meet with individual staff to provoke and support improvements in their performance.

Learn more about our expertise with performance and absence management.

Staff changes such as redundancy and TUPE

We can meet with staff to help explain what is happening, what the process involves and answer questions. We can help the organisation develop and manage the process from the start to the end.

Learn more about our expertise with staff changes, redundancy and TUPE.

People culture

Particularly when an employer is growing, it might want to take steps to support wellbeing or the learning and development of staff. It might want to improve recruitment and retention. This can involve engaging with employees to find out what they truly want and need from the workplace and helping the employer consider what it can deliver.

Learn more about our expertise with people culture.

Amicable exits and Settlement Agreements

Sometimes it’s just better that an employee leaves the business. There can be any number of reasons why that might happen. Often, an employer will want to avoid dismissing the individual – again, for various reasons. We can guide you through that process. We can even have the conversation for you.

Learn more about our expertise with amicable exits and Settlement Agreements.

Why work with us?

• Decades of specialist employment law and HR expertise for a wide range of clients
• Strong skills in amicably resolving workplace disputes
• High level experience with Employment Tribunal claims
• A complete service for all aspects of employment law and HR
• Scottish Discrimination Lawyers Association

Speak to our HR Business Partners today

If you’re looking for outsourced HR advice or employment law consulting, get in touch with our experts today.

Contact us on 0131 270 7700, visit our offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, East Lothian or Shetland or fill in our enquiry form at the bottom of the page to request a call back.