Employment and Health and Safety Law
At WH Law LLP we take a long-term view with our clients and are prepared to invest time and resources in working with a client, to engage their trust and business.
We provide a ‘holistic' service, understanding the diverse needs of business, so representing a ‘trusted adviser' for our client. We can be flexible about how we provide our services, tailoring them to the client's needs. We endeavour to understand the nature of a client's business and provide practical advice and solutions.
We advise a broad range of clients, including owner-managed businesses without HR departments, larger businesses with HR departments requiring expert advice, public companies and public sector organisations.
We prepare a regular employment law newsletter, which can be e-mailed or posted on request.
The services we provide to businesses are many and varied and are required by clients of all sizes and in all sectors. They include:
Auditing, amending and preparing contracts and procedures
Training managers in workplace law and practice
Advising employers through disciplinary and grievance procedures
Advising employers on all aspects of their relationship with their employees
Advising employers on exit procedures for senior executives
Advising on TUPE and other employee issues, as part of corporate transactions
Advising employers on activities of former employees in relation to restrictive covenants, breaches of fiduciary duty and confidentiality (and employees in relation to their risks)
Advising employers in relation to claims brought by employees
Advising employees (predominantly senior executives) in relation to termination and Compromise Agreements
‘Employing People Matters'
Every business has a legal obligation to ensure the health and safety of its employees and others affected by their business activities. Compliance with Health and Safety legislation is therefore a necessity and its importance cannot be overemphasised. Efficient health and safety practices provide reward in themselves, as not only will they will prevent significant costs as a result of accidents and illness due to poor health and safety measures, they will also help your business run smoothly and sustain a good reputation.
Therefore, in order to ensure the requirements of the legislation are being met by businesses and that they are well informed of any relevant changes, we offer businesses the opportunity to select a package tailored to their needs. The following Health and Safety packages are available under the Employing People Matters (EPM) programme:
1) Review of existing Health and Safety policies including minor revisions where necessary
2) On site audit of Health and Safety with all consequential updates and revisions
3) Health and Safety helpline for advice and legislation updates
4) In-house training
In terms of workplace relations, businesses must ensure that certain policies and procedures are in place, and that they are understood and adhered to. The EPM partnership can offer the following essential procedures to businesses:
Disciplinary (statutory requirement)
Grievance (statutory requirement)
Equal Opportunities
Health and Safety (statutory requirement)
Internal Communications
Data Protection
In order to assist businesses in getting the maximum benefit from the policies and procedures offered, the EPM partnership can provide a half day's orientation and training to employers and managers.
The WH Business Support Programme
For those employers who appreciate the benefit to their business of ensuring workplace relations run smoothly and the need to keep up to date with developments in employment and health and safety law, we offer the WH Business Support Programme.
For businesses who take up this Programme, we provide a more in-depth, longer term service which includes an initial – and ongoing - review of the business's current practices and procedures, to identify any issues that need attention and take the appropriate action. This may involve re-writing contracts and procedures and/or introducing new policies tailored to the needs of the business.
In the longer term we provide advice on all employment and health and safety issues which arise during the year and provide regular training for managers.
We provide this Programme for a monthly retainer, reviewable annually. The cost of the Programme is agreed with our clients according to the business's needs and the degree of risk – recognising that each business is different, we are flexible in tailoring the service according to the needs of the business.
Resources and Flexibility
We have on our team:
- HR consultant
- a conflict management and continuous improvement consultant
- an IT fraud consultant
- a surveillance expert
- Occupational health specialist
As a result we have the resources and capacity to act swiftly to deal with any employment, HR, IT fraud threat or executive breach of confidentiality threat to your business.
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