Employment law and HR services

Employment law and HR issues create a tangled web for employers. Steven Eckett heads our employment law practice, and has 16 years' specialist experience both in industry and in private practice. This gives him the insight to understand the employment law needs of all types of businesses, ranging from start-ups and SMEs to larger national and multi-national businesses.

Steven has worked with a variety of HR specialists over the years in many different industries, and therefore also understands all of the HR issues and requirements that can typically affect a business.

It is common for directors in all types and sizes of business to spend a significant amount of their time and resources dealing with employment/HR issues instead of concentrating on actually running the business. We can give you peace of mind by providing high quality employment law and HR support to your business.

We are aware that there are a variety of insurance-based products on the market to assist businesses with employment risks. However, in our experience, the advice offered by such services is often geared towards meeting the interests of the insurer, making it difficult for them to advise in a way that helps the business to achieve its commercial goals.

Here at iLaw our philosophy is different because in addition to providing the more traditional employment law services, we also provide a full range of bespoke practical HR services and solutions which can be specifically tailored to meet the needs of your business. Our goal is to assist individual clients in ultimately reducing the costs associated with HR challenges, increasing your productivity, while helping to achieve legal compliance and minimising exposure to financial risk.

We are motivated by delivering high quality, flexible HR services to clients at an affordable cost, combined with our desire to work with you to deliver professional and commercial solutions.

Examples of the employment law and HR services that iLaw can help you with include:

  • A full HR audit and health check to highlight any areas of risk
  • HR project work to include job evaluation exercises and a review of current internal policies and procedures
  • Review of current terms and conditions of employment and staff handbooks
  • Practical Management and HR training on a variety of HR/employment issues
  • Training and advice on handling disciplinary and grievance hearings
  • Training and advice on handling staff absences
  • Support in dealing with transactional HR issues such as relocation, restructuring and TUPE, and associated due diligence
  • Managing difficult employees and the wider employment relationship
  • Severance arrangements and compromise agreements
  • Advice on compiling recruitment advertisements and campaigns
  • Preparing internal appraisal and performance review procedures
  • Advising on terminating the employment relationship
  • General HR and employment law support and advice.

For further assistance, please contact Steven Eckett.