How Can Our Business Service Solicitors Help?
We know that employment regulations are regularly changing and that it can be difficult to keep up-to-date. With Employer Protect your business can relax, safe in the knowledge that when an employment law or HR query arises you can simply pick up the phone to speak to a dedicated expert.
Our fixed-fee solution not only gives you day-to-day reassurance, but our Employer Health Check will ensure that your employment processes and documents are all fully compliant, to help prevent the likelihood of future claims arising.
Employer Protect can also be backed by a leading insurer giving you built in cover for an affordable fixed annual fee (direct from the insurer) - protecting your bottom line, leaving you covered from significant financial exposure.
It is a cost effective solution for your employment law needs. For an affordable fixed annual fee Banners Jones' employment law solicitors and HR specialists can help you with all your employment law issues.
A guide to Employer Protect
Fixed Fee Employer Protection Plan
What Does Employer Protect Include?
Employer Protect consists of three main elements: compliance, ongoing HR and employment law advice and support, and (if selected) employment protection insurance.
1. Compliance
Employment Law Health Check
The first thing we will do is undertake a complete review of your current policies, procedures, contracts of employment and staff handbook to ensure that you are legally compliant. We will ensure that these documents are up-to-date with current employment legislation. If you don’t have these, we will provide them for you.
Tailored Documents
When an issue arises, we will be by your side, providing you with template letters, contracts, policies and forms and helping you tailor them to ensure that they are right for you and your specific circumstances.
2. Ongoing HR and employment advice and support
Dedicated Adviser
To give you the best advice for your business, we need to know you and your business. That’s why you will have a dedicated advisor, available by phone, email and regular 6-monthly review meetings.
Telephone and Email Helpline
You’ll have access to unlimited advice and support on employment law or HR issues.
Regular Updates
We will ensure that you are kept up to date on any key developments in employment law.
3. Insurance
To ensure your bottom line is protected, you can add insurance to cover the cost of employment tribunal claims. The insurance covers not only the legal costs themselves, but also any awards of compensation and/or settlements.
What Does it Not Include?
- Attendance at internal meetings, including disciplinary and grievance hearings, by a Banner Jones representative.
- Drafting and review of bespoke documents, including settlement agreements.
- Advising and negotiations with third parties, including with regards to settlement agreements.
- Advice relating to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) and all other TUPE Regulations
- Advice relating to Industrial Strike Action.
- Representation in Employment Tribunal proceedings (unless insurance is taken out).
- Any claim by any existing or former employee in any Civil Court or Employment Tribunal in the United Kingdom arising out of the employment or termination (unless insurance is taken out).
Settlement Agreement Advice
Katie Ash explains and answers some questions about settlement agreements.
Our employees are all in their early twenties if we employ someone in their sixties they would be out of place. Do we have to hire someone of this age?
If you interview someone in their sixties and they turn out to be as good or even better than your current employees in their twenties you should not let their age be a determining factor as to whether you hire them or not. Since October 2006 it has been unlawful to reject anyone for an interview based on their age. There is not a lot employers can do to control the age of their workforce therefore you would potentially have to recruit someone in their sixties even if you have a younger workforce.