Employment Law
EMPLOYMENT LAW FOR EMPLOYERS – BOURNEMOUTH EMPLOYMENT LAWYERS
One of the hardest aspects of running any business is the issue if managing staff. This can range from keeping a motivated and loyal workforce through to particular problems with individual employees. Few businesses if any will not encounter staff problems and managing these is a real skill in itself, aside from the problem that there is an ever increasing amount of employment legislation, both in the UK and from Europe. It can be all too easy to make a mistake in a difficult employment situation, on a technicality, and this can prove costly.
Whilst employment law is a technical, statutory area, many types of situations which can arise, particularly for dismissal issues, revert back to the priniciple of the employer acting within a “range of reasonable responses”. In this area, experience counts and we can advise and assist from an early stage on any possible dismissal, how an employer can and should ensure that they satisfy this test.
We also advise and assist employer clients on employment issues including :-
- How not to fall foul of discrimination laws when recruiting
- Drafting contracts of employment whether for general staff or executive contracts
- Bespoke employee handbooks, policies and procedures for your business
- How to deal with disciplining employees
- Dismissals, including gross miscounduct and appeals against dimissals
- the corrrect way to deal with grievances raised
- Redundancy law
- Defending Employment Tribunal claims
- Post termination restrictive covenants and garden leave
- Advice concerning TUPE
- Compromise agreements
- Maternity rights
- How to deal with employee absences for ill health
- Working time regulations