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Livingstons for Employment LawTelephone Advice and Assistance

We can assist on a day to day basis by providing you with telephone advice on Employment and Industrial Relations matters, should any disputes or problems arise within your business. Essentially, if you have any queries about handling a disciplinary matter, grievance hearing or have any general queries about your responsibilities as employers, then you can simply telephone us for advice. We operate this service for a number of clients, some of whom engage Livingstons on a retainer to provide this assistance.

Obviously the level of retainer will depend entirely on your anticipated needs and the size of your business. We can agree a level of retainer between ourselves if you are interested in pursuing this matter.

Representation

We can provide advice and representation for you should any ex-employees bring a claim via the Employment Tribunal or County Court. Although a very large number of potential claims can be prevented by following the correct procedures, you will no doubt be aware that the caseload for Employment Tribunals is increasing significantly year on year and it is never possible to wholly avoid potential claims. A significant number of claims to the Tribunal are fairly cynical attempts on behalf of employees to secure what is known as ‘commercial payouts’ - amounts of money up to a couple of thousand pounds which an employer would usually want to pay rather than go to the time and trouble of fighting a Tribunal claim. Should you find yourselves facing a claim, then we can assist with the representation at the Employment Tribunal should a case go all the way.

We will review your Procedures, Staff Handbooks and Contracts of Employment to make sure that they tally with the ever-changing state of employment legislation. Practically speaking, this involves an initial face to face meeting to identify the particular needs of your business. This would be followed by a review of all of your Employment documents. We would make suggestions for amendment and, if necessary, draft policies and procedures for inclusion in your Staff Handbook. This initial audit will be followed by an Annual Review, to incorporate any policies that may need to be amended as a result of new legislation or developments in case law. In the general run of events, we get plenty of notice about new pieces of legislation and your documentation is unlikely to need reviewing more than once a year.

Please contact Steve Walker or Jenny Nuttall on 01229 585555.

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