Growth is about the entrepreneur, great products and innovation, strategy and opportunity, right? What has that got to do with HR and employment law support? Well let us flip the question around. Do disputes, litigation, workplace grievances, staff turnover, recruitment costs and damage to reputation act as a brake on the ability of SMEs to grow to their full potential?
In our experience companies aiming for high growth focus their energy and resources on the things they are great at, but don’t neglect the areas where they are not specialists. Employment law and HR is a classic example. Few entrepreneurs and business owners relish the compliance and regulatory aspects of employing staff but these are the kind of issues that can unexpectedly blow up, resulting in substantial unbudgeted costs. Just as important as the cost issue though is the amount of management time that can be diverted from business development and product innovation into resolving workplace disputes or defending Tribunal claims.
We act for a number of rising stars who recognise that costs certainty and compliance are the starting point for an HR strategy but who demand more than vanilla advice and standard guidance delivered from a contact centre environment, which is often the model of the low cost consultancies. We have been advising businesses on employment law issues for decades and were one of the first firms in Sheffield to specialise in employment law when the industrial tribunals were first created in the 1960s. Why does this matter? Our clients are business people who understand that the assessment of risk is where value is delivered. These companies don’t want to pay us good money to tell them things they can find out on the ACAS website. We earn our money by providing opinionated, bespoke evaluations of risk in the employment field and are prepared to stand by the advice we give. We recognise that the lowest risk route is not always the best route in any given circumstances.
From specialist steel manufacturers to IT companies and social media management companies, from charities to car dealerships and retail businesses to employment agencies, we provide a fixed fee annual service which provides full employment law and HR compliance, backed up by expert advice from experienced employment lawyers. We sort out contracts of employment and policies and procedures, we provide an online personnel information system (including a holiday booking facility), we provide letters and documents (including Settlement Agreements) and cost effective insurance against the risk of Tribunal claims. This means that even the smallest business can aspire to more than bare compliance and can seek to create a beat practice environment where staff know where they stand and what is expected of them. This package, which we call T&E Complete, makes HR issues one less thing to worry about, and allows businesses to focus on growth.
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