HR outsourcing

HR outsourcing is an efficient and cost effective alternative to doing your personnel activities in-house and it makes good business sense.

When you are swamped in daily personnel issues and are struggling to keep up with ever changing employment law, it can be hard to find the time to focus on your organisation. HR outsourcing means that you have the direct support of people who are experts in HR. This allows your key people to get on with their core activities, safe in the knowledge that the organisation is conforming to good employment practices and is meeting employment legislation requirements.

Not all managers have the necessary skills and knowledge to deal with complex employee issues such as gross misconduct, harassment and bullying, long term sickness. These are sensitive issues and involve complicated employment legislation. Getting them wrong could cost you thousands of pounds in compensation at an employment tribunal - employees really know their rights these days!

PicassoHR make sure that you are not contravening employment laws and other legal legislations. By using our services, our clients truly believe that the risk of an employment tribunal claim is considerably reduced, giving them peace of mind. To help, we can provide a free no-obligation HR Audit to identify any issues that may exist.

Here are the typical things that an outsourced service would take care of:

• Ensuring that you considerably reduce the risk of a tribunal claim and improve employee relations.
• Advice and support from qualified experts without incurring the cost of employing them.
• All HR policies and procedures brought in line with current employment legislation. This will include contracts of employment and staff handbook, or developing them where non exist.
• Management kept updated on employment legislation change.
• A customised staff handbook containing all relevant policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with legal requirements.
• Development of new employment policies and procedures as considered necessary.
• Employment legal help-line and support to appointed management on any HR related issues and employment legislation via e-mail, telephone and on site when necessary.
• Maternity, paternity and parental leave – produce a schedule of procedures to be carried out and produce relevant letters for the duration of the maternity period and parental leave for each employee when necessary.
• By letting Picasso HR look after your personnel function you can focus on your core business activities in the knowledge that you are complying with legislation and have good employment practices in place.

Why should I outsource?

For many MD’s the thought of outsourcing any organisational activity can be daunting, but particularly so when they are considering the HR activity. Outsourcing is nothing new and most organisations have some element of outsourcing e.g. catering, payroll, security, IT.

By using our HR Outsourcing services our clients truly believe that the risk of an employment tribunal claim is considerably reduced, giving them peace of mind. At the heart of our services are robust processes and procedures.

HR outsourcing allows the key people to focus on their core business activities safe in the knowledge that the business is conforming to good employment practices and is meeting employment legislation requirements. It is a cost effective alternative to doing it in-house and it makes good business sense.

What do I get?

We can tailor the service to your needs and budget. Broadly though we provide 3 main options as follows:

• 3 Star service – telephone and email helpline
• 4 Star service – as 3 Star plus on site assistance
• 5 Star service – regular attendance to your premises e.g. one or two days a week/month as you require acting as your in-house HR manager.

We will bring all your HR policies and procedures in line with current employment law. This will include contracts of employment and staff handbook, or developing them where non exist.

Management will be kept updated on employment law changes and we will also update your documentation as necessary.

We don’t give you just generic policies and procedures. We use appropriate policies and procedures for your industry and design the handbook to match your company style, down to the font you use. We’ll produce a handbook that you and your employees can be proud of.

We will develop new employment policies and procedures as your business requires and in line with change in legislation.

Our services provide an employment legal advisory service to appointed management on any HR related issues and employment legislation via e-mail, telephone and on site when necessary. We will even produce HR management letters and documents regarding employee related issues. You won't need to think about what you should and shouldn't say and whether it is legally correct - we'll do it for you.

We will develop a separate family friendly handbook, containing maternity, paternity, adoption and parental leave procedure and request to work flexibly procedure. This will outline a schedule of steps to be carried out and relevant letter templates.

We will email you a monthly HR newsletter with up to date information on employment legislation.

Related Pages

Outsourcing Service Levels  We provide a number of different service levels designed to offer businesses just the level of support they need.

 

HR Outsourcing Benefits  An overview of the benefits of outsourcing HR to PicassoHR.

 

 

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