Services
The services available to employers include initial “start up” health and safety and employment manuals, together with standard contracts of employment. Thereafter full advisory services are available as follows:-
Legal Services
Employment Law
All areas of employment law including:
- Unfair dismissal and wrongful dismissal
- Compromise agreements
- Equal pay and equal opportunities
- Employment Tribunal work
- Redundancy (including collective redundancies)
- All types of discrimination (including age)
- Transfers of undertakings
- Restraint of trade and confidentiality
- Vicarious liability of employers
- Maternity/paternity rights
- Breach of contract/contractual disputes
- Retirement and age discrimination issues
Employment Documentation
Use FJG Docs2Go our online system for assembling documents tailored to your particular circumstances including
- Contracts of employment
- Handbooks
- Policies and Procedures to deal with all employment issues
Employment Disputes
- Disputes between employer and employee
- Grievances
- Appeal procedures
In addition we can help you to deal with employee issues internally as part of our human resources services below
Human Resources Services
Recruitment
- Writing of job descriptions
- Development of interview guides
- Selection interviewing
- Psychometric assessments and selection centre design and management
Staff Communication
- Development of employee communication strategies
- Wording of especially sensitive communications
- Development and management of staff opinion surveys
Training
- Interviewing skills
- Handling disciplinary investigations and hearings
- Appraisal skills
Performance management and development
- Development and implementation of appraisal schemes
- Working with managers to develop performance improvement plans for individuals whose performance is not of required level
- Development of business succession plans
- Development of training and development plans
Employment relations
- Supporting line managers through disciplinary and grievance proceedings
- Tailoring template handbooks and contracts to meet business requirements
- Conducting disciplinary and grievance investigations
- Management of redundancy exercises
- Management of consultation processes for redundancy or TUPE
Health and Safety Advisory and support Services
- site visits to your places of work
- advice on the basic steps you need to take to stay within the law
- up to date information on changes in legislation
- H&S assessments including an appraisal of what needs to be done
- Sensible cost-effective solutions, including occupational, H&S assessments and audits of the workplace, (noise, manual handling, COSHH, fire, display screen equipment, machinery safety and general risk assessments) to meet employer liabilities and premises for insurance purposes
- practical advice on preparing an H&S policy
- conventional and interactive Health & Safety training packages tailored to your business and environment
- CDM (Construction, Design, Management) support and the provision of an appointed CDM Coordinator for your construction projects
- fire safety and fire assessments, disaster planning and recovery, major accident prevention policy, writing accident and incident investigation reports