PROBIZ HR PLUS - McGregors Corporate

Health and Safety regulations are quite rightly a key feature of any successful business. Employment law in the UK protects the rights of employees in the workplace. Employment law advice from McGregors, backed by Probiz HR Plus, ensures that when relationships between employers and workers run into difficulty, there is always someone on hand who not only understands the law, but can offer practical advice and solutions.

PROBIZ HR Plus provides:

• A dedicated employment law advice line, available 24-hours-a-day, 365 days a year. Speak to employment law specialists, experts in health and safety and HR professionals whenever the need arises, to ensure you are always compliant with legislation.
• Access to practical, up-to-the-minute online advice on dealing with staff, from the latest employment legislation introduced by the Equality Act 2010, to discipline, dismissals and redundancies.
• Online access to the very latest regulatory information on health and safety in the workplace, including a downloadable document library of ‘must-have’ health and safety documentation.
• Web access to a dedicated Employee Wellbeing section, outlining useful information on matters that can affect employee performance, as well as an occupational health advice line between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.
• Insurance for legal expenses incurred as a result of a staff dispute going to a tribunal. Legal costs are paid for, and out of court settlement awards are covered.

A better place to work:

PROBIZ HR Plus will not only give you peace of mind but can also improve employee satisfaction and efficiency.

• Employing new staff or dealing with redundancies, as well as disciplinary matters, family policies and retirement.
• Setting up a company health and safety policy and handling other health and safety issues such as risk assessments for hazardous operations.
• Operating an employee wellbeing programme to assist with issues such as e-society stress and mobile phone policies, and to provide access to occupational health advice.
• Access to professional health and safety consultant services at pre-arranged rates, whenever you need face-to-face consultation or someone to carry out an assignment for you. Probiz HR Plus members can take advantage of the special fee-paying services from industry experts in health and safety and HR.

Why subscribe to PROBIZ HR Plus?

• There is a list of over 70 reasons why an employee might take their employer to a tribunal.
• More than 170,000 legal actions are filed every year, most in relation to sexual or pay discrimination, or unfair dismissal.
• Despite many of these claims settled out of court, firms on average still pay out £7,000 in legal fees.
• There are a number of statutory duties imposed on all businesses by the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. Businesses with five or more employees are obliged to produce a written health and safety policy, and you must be able to demonstrate that you can follow through on that policy document.
• Avoid unnecessary losses in productivity by utilising Probiz HR Plus to provide support for the welfare of your employees.