Employment law touches every business with staff, and it moves. The contract you issue, the policies you rely on, the way you handle a problem when it arises: each one matters, and each one is easier to get right at the start than to fix after a dispute.

I help employers take on, manage and part with staff, and put the documents and policies in place that keep things straightforward. Below are the main areas I cover, each leading to the guidance and document types within it.

  • Offer letters. Getting the offer right, from the statutory minimum to roles with restrictive covenants, across every kind of contract.
  • Employee data protection. Handling staff data properly, from policies and privacy notices to subject access requests.
  • Employment contracts. Contracts for every kind of role and working pattern, plus the clauses that protect the business and how to change terms.
  • Recruitment. Hiring fairly and well, from job descriptions and application forms to interviews, references and equal opportunities.
  • HR policies and forms. The staff handbook and the everyday policies and forms that set expectations and keep things consistent.
  • Sickness, absence and holiday. Managing sickness and absence sensibly, and handling holiday entitlement and requests.
  • Leaving employment. Ending employment cleanly, from resignation and termination to settlement agreements, redundancy and retirement.
  • Disciplinary and grievance. Handling conduct, performance and grievances by the book, including suspension, warnings, dismissal and appeals.
  • Flexible and home working. Flexible working requests, home working arrangements and lay-off or short-time working.
  • Family leave. Maternity, paternity, adoption, parental and shared parental leave, and the letters and forms that go with them.
  • Training and appraisal. Appraisals, development, training agreements and time off to study or train.

Most employment problems are cheaper to prevent than to resolve. Whether you are hiring, drafting a policy or dealing with a difficult situation, tell me what is happening and I will help you handle it.