ADD HR Solutions - How an outsourced HR service can add value to your business
Wed 3rd September 2014
As a small business thinking of employing your first employee or if you have a small team and are wishing to grow, there are huge benefits to be had in consulting an outsourced HR professional.
An experienced HR professional can offer you peace of mind by putting some structure into the way you manage staff in your business; saving you time, money and stress.
Taking on your first member of staff is a big step as you will want to make sure you are getting the right person. At ADD HR Solutions we can support you in developing a job description and person specification so you can measure candidates against an ideal jobholder profile.
You may also have concerns about paying someone regularly and its effect upon your cashflow. It may be that discussing the alternative options available to recruiting into a full-time permanent role may support you in the interim, allowing you to build up to employing someone.
One of the key benefits of engaging the services of a HR professional is to ensure the risk of an employment dispute is reduced. When taking on an employee you need to have in place a contract of employment. This will contain all the basic information that both the employer and employee need to know about their employment in order to conform to the Employment Rights Act 1996.
However, other than mere legal compliance there are significant benefits to the development of an employment contract; for example, if you run a creative business, wouldn’t you want to protect your intellectual property if your employee were to leave and start work with a competitor? A contract of employment could include ‘restrictive covenants’ to protect both yours and your client's interests.
The obvious way a HR professional can support you is in the event of an employee dispute. In a small business, this can have a huge ripple effect as the rest of the workforce can be affected and business struggles to continue as normal. At ADD HR Solutions we can provide you with support and advice in handling disciplinary issues and dismissals. This can take the heat out of the situation and reduce the chance of poor decision making. By ensuring a fair and consistent disciplinary procedure is adopted, the risk of success at an employment tribunal is greatly diminished. The secondary benefits are that your employees see that you treat disciplinary issues seriously and are fair and consistent in their application.
An experienced HR professional can support your business in a number of ways and can be a good sounding board when you want to evaluate the effect of business decisions on your employees. At ADD HR Solutions we can help you consider the legal impact of your proposals whilst also helping you to solve your business problems so your business can go from strength to strength.
