LAY-OFFS, REDUNDANCIES, PART-TIME WORKING?
In the current climate any business or organisation needs to make sure that everyone and every process is working as effectively and efficiently as possible. The only way to make this happen is if all employees recruited and employed are fully aware of what their role is and how they can affect your business or organisation – positively or negatively! Can you afford to have untrained supervisors or managers handling HR and employment issues?
There are many articles in the papers and professional magazines about lay-offs, redundancies and more positively how to create more flexible solutions, for example, temporary part-time work. Would you be able to manage these without falling foul of employment law and potential unfair dismissal claims?
The current maximum award for unfair dismissal is £66,200, not accounting for the amount of time and money it takes to prepare for an Employment Tribunal. Outcomes from Employment Tribunals and Employment Appeal Tribunals indicate that little sympathy is given or defence granted to businesses if there is ignorance of legislation and good practice.
Significant HR Solutions offers 20 years’ combined experience of retail and HR Management and Employee Development and can help you.
Consultancies in general vary in the way they approach problem solving in businesses or larger organisations. Many identify the ‘problem’ ie the symptom and apply the cure without perhaps investigating a little further to find the source of the ‘symptom’. Others try to find who is responsible for the problem and then proceed to ‘deal’ with them. Another is where someons has a product to sell and will find an opportunity to make the product fit your ‘problem’.
Significant HR Solutions feels that these approaches create a negative effect on your business. We aim to understand your business, look at the ‘problem’ in context and then discuss the best options available.
