Employment Law & Training

Keeping up to date with your obligations under Employment Law is often difficult and always time consuming. Every year sees changes in Employment Law meaning that often tried and tested employment practices within your industry sector are no longer appropriate. Even the use of self employed workers can now lead to problems and ultimately to attendance at Employment Tribunal Hearings.

Our team are able to offer advice on all matters of Employment Law, usually immediately upon demand. In the unlikely event that your problem is so complex that an answer cannot be given at once we will carry out the necessary research and provide your answer as soon as possible.

EMPLOYMENT MATTERS

Contracts of Employment

• Assistance in drafting Contracts of Employment, Written Statements of the Main Terms of Employment and associated policies
• Assistance in drafting contracts for self employed workers
• Business hours Advice Line Service with your own dedicated adviser
• Employment Tribunal Representation
• Preparation of Staff Handbooks
• Advice on discipline and grievance procedures
• Assistance in monitoring and controlling unauthorised absences
• Assistance with the conduct of disciplinary procedures
• Assistance with drafting formal letters to employees where required
• Assistance with interviews if required
• Assistance with redundancies
• Training
• Assistance in preparing an Equal Opportunities Policy, training in the same and monitoring such training. Advice on employee holiday entitlement
• The provision of our “Instruction Sheets” plain English instructions for dealing with commonly recurring employment problems including the provision of agendas for various meetings and styles of letter and warning
• Quarterly News Letter providing updates on Employment Law issues and practical advice on dealing with employment problems

Employment Law Training

RPL can provide training to your management or to your staff at an affordable cost.

Training courses include

• Employment problems and their solutions

• Employment from recruitment to dismissal

• Equal opportunities

• Dealing with difficult employees

• Assertiveness at work

• Managing stress positively

• The Data Protection Act

All our courses aim to provide, not just information, but practical advice on how to handle problems as these can arise in the real world of your business.

Employment advice for individuals

Just because you are not an employer does not mean that you cannot benefit from R.P.L.’s expertise on employment issues and tribunal representation.

R.P.L. regularly represents employees in claims for unfair dismissal, discrimination and others. Our first meeting is free and our fee is always agreed in advance. Payment by instalment is not a problem and in certain cases No Win No Fee can be arranged