Employment Health Check
Why Do You Need It?
Britain’s Employment Tribunals receive nearly 100,000 applications every year. Every single one cost an employer time and money, which they can never recover. The DTI’s own figures show that the average cost is £2,000 per claim. It is almost certainly an underestimate.
Tribunals can – and do – order a business to pay an employee up to £50,000. Usually, the employer has simply not followed the correct procedures.
For claims involving sex, race or disability discrimination, there is no limit. Very often, the discrimination is completely accidental. Advertising for jobs is a particular minefield.
At the same time, there are many cases of employees misbehaving, misusing the internet, or even stealing the company’s business secrets. Without written contracts and policies, it is very difficult to stop. And few businesses realise that even internal, personal e-mails can land an employer in big trouble – over £400,000 of trouble in one case
Our Solution
- We review your employment contracts to ensure they comply with the latest regulations. Then we fix them for you and help you implement them.
- We help you build an equal opportunities policy tailored to your business, or bring your current one up to date.
- We help you create the procedures to ensure you do not accidentally fall foul of disability or equal opportunities legislation when advertising jobs.
- We help you through the special Health & Safety rules for employees working with computers.
- We ensure your employees’ grievance and disciplinary policies work properly.
- We help you implement a sensible web use and e-mail policy which protects you from misuse by employees.
All completed for a fee of only £199 +VAT
