Credible HR & Employment Law Support

Getting to know your business

One of our HR Consultants will carry out an initial HR Audit with the objective of understanding your business, your current HR practices and identifying where your gaps may be (if any).

You will be provided with a copy of the HR Audit and an accompanying HR Action Plan which will provide you with clear and transparent actions that form part of your retainer package and a timeline for completion by our HR Consultants.

As part of this Action Plan, there will be additional recommendations that you can choose to instruct Wurkplace to carry out on your behalf (this will be quoted for and charged for separately).

Dedicated, qualified and timely professional advice

Using our highly qualified team of experts, we commit to matching you with a fully qualified HR Consultant suitable to your Company and its needs.  Our dedicated HR Helpline and Email service is for the use of your managers and internal HR team as and when you need us.

We support with HR and Employment Law advice, including:

• Grievance, disciplinaries, and dismissals
• Sickness absence
• Managing Performance
• Change Management
• Small scale redundancies/restructuring (3 roles or less)
• Family friendly rights; maternity, paternity, parental rights
• Flexible working
• Discrimination and equality issues
• Harassment and bullying
• Whistleblowing

Legal Compliance

We will ensure that you have robust, legally compliant essential documents. We will conduct a review of your Employee Handbook and Contracts of Employments providing feedback and ensuring that your documents are legal and fit for purpose.

Access to our Members Suite

As a client of Wurkplace you have access to our dedicated client portal accessed through our website. You will have access to: –

• Manager Guides which accompany the Employee Handbook
• A suite of template documents that accompany each Manager Guides
• A quarterly Employment Law Bulletin
• Policy updates
• GDPR documentation

HR Management Services

Our team of HR Professionals can help you with:-

• Employee Contracts – Review existing employee contracts, checking for consistency and legal compliance. Once reviewed, the team will put in place a consistent employee contract structure at a user or role level. Contracts can be tailored to suit your organisation. Contracts can be stored at a user level, using our online HR solution.
• Employee Handbook – Provide your employees and new starters with an employee handbook. We can create this for you and ensure an electronic audit trail to show new employees have received this and accepted receipt. Our team will keep this updated with the latest policies and procedures.
• HR Audit – A full audit of your existing processes with recommendations if required built into a fully costed action plan.
• HR System – Implementation of a compliant HR System which allows you to securely store important documents including personnel files. Using this system will create a ‘paperless paper trail’ including:-
  • Track absences encouraging you to complete virtual return to work and self certification forms.
  • Review and authorise holiday requests.
  • Keep a record of any training.
  • Ask for reason when changing an employee’s details. This will be automatically kept on file.
• Employment Law – Handling employment law issues including disciplinary situations, immigration, redundancies, probationary periods, TUPE, disputes, grievances, sickness absence and holidays.
• Optional Legal Expenses Insurance – To the value of £100,000, to protect you against employment tribunal costs.
• Monthly HR Updates – Including the latest policies and procedures.
• Specific Projects – Such as employee onboarding, leadership development programmes or bespoke training packages.

For a FREE consultation with one of our qualified HR experts, click here. Alternatively to speak to an adviser about our HR support services, call 01352 871053.

Case Study

A leading document management company named cleardata came to us seeking full HR support and an implementation of a brand new HR system.

cleardata are a fast-growing business that is based in Newcastle, with offices now in London and Hawarden and they specialise in document scanning, data capture, archive storage and document processing services.

When they approached us, cleardata had no real HR procedures in place and they were operating on old contracts and handbooks, which needed an urgent update. There were no director contracts or job roles in place, and we needed to change this quickly.

cleardata had good management in places, but HR had been placed on the backburner because of the fast-growing rate of the business. This is why cleardata enlisted Wurkplace’s help to give them structure and updated their procedures. We went in and gave them a full action plan, which was analysed over a 30/60/90 day period.

There was a lot of work to be done regarding their contracts, so we reconstructed them and split them into contracts for directors, managers and employees. They also needed a way to manage their staff more effectively and a system for keeping track of holidays, absence, etc. Lucky for them, Wurkplace had the answer.

The implementation of our HR system provided cleardata with the easily management tool they needed, allowing them to track holidays and absence easier. This was good news for the payroll department, as they were able to keep track of this information and implement it into the system.

Now that all of these new procedures had been put in place, things were a lot easier to manage. Two years on and cleardata are now taking out more management and training courses with us, training their directors and managers. We look forward to continuingly working with them for years to come.

“Wurkplace have been an essential part of shaping cleardata to what it is today. We are very thankful for the hard work and dedication they provided when it came to establishing structure in the business. We couldn’t imagine going anywhere else for all of our HR needs. We’re excited to keep working alongside Wurkplace for the foreseeable future.”