Employment law retainer

As part of our 'YEAR' package, we host workshops and seminars keeping you up to date with the latest changes in employment legislation or offering advice on both employment law and HR issues encountered by our clients.

Our most popular training packages are:

• An introduction to employment law for line managers;
• Bullying and Harassment
• Banter v Discrimination
• Managing stress in the workplace;
• Managing absence: holidays, family friendly leave and long-term sickness; and
• Conducting effective disciplinary investigations and hearings.

Training is designed by experienced employment law solicitors, and supported by our HR professionals.

We can also design tailored made workshops, seminars and training programmes to help clients with specific issues within their business, which can be delivered in house to HR and senior management teams or on a one to one basis.

Our training programmes can cover any HR or employment law topic, and we are happy to speak with you about any training needs. Previous courses have included:

• HR skills for business;
• Effective mentoring in the workplace;
• Conducting successful employee reviews;
• Recruitment, interviewing and selection;
• Employment law for HR professionals;
• Employment law for business owners;
• Absence management, bullying and discrimination;
• Conducting a grievance investigation; and
• Performance management and dismissals.

HR administrative duties often take up a substantial period of time, with this only being furthered with difficulties in accessing employee information. This is why we have partnered with Albion Legal to provide our clients with the option to sign up to a HR Portal, Ignite. The intention behind Ignite is to reduce the time and resources employers will be required to devote to HR admin, enabling employers to focus on other important aspects of their business, whilst having the comfort and reassurance that employee information and important documentation is not only safely stored, but easily accessible when required.

Ignite has endless vital features which can help employers deal with a variety of day-to-day tasks, including the recording of sickness absence, holiday entitlement, company policies and procedures, as well as arranging important employee meetings and compiling reports to help review sectors of the business, and update accordingly, if necessary.

Click here see what Ignite has to offer.

Our current YEAR clients are made up of a number of different businesses, across different sectors, different sizes and alternative management and HR structures.

For small to medium businesses with little or no HR team or support, our team can be on hand to help with all the issues that arise daily, draft any documents and letters and provide a general HR support system for the management team within your business.

For larger organisations our team can support existing HR Managers with the more complex and technical issues that do not arise on a daily basis.

YEAR is for everyone and can be adapted to your business needs. This is a service for your business.

Unlike many similar retained employment law services on the market, we do not operate from a fixed pricing structure. All of our YEAR quotes are bespoke and based on your business. The two pieces of information we require to provide you with a YEAR quote is your annual wage bill and your current number of employees.

At present any advice about TUPE, redundancies of over 20 employees and tribunal claims are not included in a YEAR subscription. Whilst advice in relation to internal process such as disciplinary and grievance procedures is included in a YEAR subscription, if you require us to chair meetings on your behalf, this would not be included, and we will provide you with a bespoke quote for this. 

We operate on a transparent pricing structure so if any such issues were to arise, we would provide you with a precise quote for the costs anticipated and keep you updated as to our fee’s on your account.

Alongside YEAR membership, we are also pleased to offer the opportunity of optional legal expenses cover in the eventuality of any employment or HR issue we have previously advised on progressing to a tribunal. The legal expenses insurance would provide a contribution towards legal fees, barrister costs and insurance on any potential payout.