If you’re suffering from difficult situations involving staff, sometimes you need someone to give you advice – or deal with it on your behalf. Whether it involves talking with or interviewing employees or conducting disciplinary procedures, our HR consultancy team handle issues practically and professionally.
Our strategic HR solutions help you to manage your employees so you’re all working towards the same goal and the needs of the organisation. Strategic HR can affect every aspect of the employment relationship, including job roles, working hours and pay, to bonuses and job performance measures.
We offer a number of HR solutions and services suitable for academies and schools in the North East area, including a mix of remote advice and support and an extensive list of Pay As You Go options.
If you need a one-off health and safety audit, or on-going support with a ‘competent person’ to hand, our health and safety service ensures you operate a compliant environment at all times.
Employees are legally entitled to a written statement of their main employment terms, and well-written employment contracts, staff handbooks, policies and procedures start the working relationship off in the right way. So choose the right HR consultancy to take your business forward.
We understand that managing employees is a complex business, and it can be tough to do this whilst managing your business goals. With our remote HR support service, you can receive advice on all HR-related issues, benefiting from our team’s wealth of knowledge and expertise.
Apprentices are usually employees who have been employed at reduced costs in order that they can be trained in a particular skill. As employees, apprentices will have the usual employment rights and their apprenticeship is usually for a fixed period of time; the period will depend on how long it will take to obtain the skills and qualifications they are training for. Generally apprentice contracts should only be terminated early for serious misconduct but will end automatically on the last date of the fixed term.
If some staff are late for work or fail to attend work because of severe weather, then an employer is under no obligation to pay them, unless there is a specific provision for such absence to be paid in their contract of employment.
If you’ve just set up your own business, you may be tempted to try and look after your own HR, especially if you’re running a small to a medium-sized enterprise with a limited budget. But you could leave yourself open to more significant problems later down the line if you try to cut corners when dealing with such a sensitive area of the business. It’s an easy trap to fall into, as most companies start with a tiny number of employees and no immediate concerns about human resource management.
