Get Expert Support for Your Employee Relations
Resolve Workplace Conflicts with Confidence
Employee Relations Support (Discipline and Grievance including Whistleblowing)
If you are faced with a complaint from employees or need to address poor conduct or behaviours, our employee relations experts are easy to work with and can provide you with the support you need.
Get Expert Support for Your Employee Relations
Resolve Workplace Conflicts with Confidence
Employee Relations Support (Discipline and Grievance including Whistleblowing)
If you are faced with a complaint from employees or need to address poor conduct or behaviours, our employee relations experts are easy to work with and can provide you with the support you need.
Providing reassurance
Most leaders don’t feel comfortable dealing with conflict in the workplace, in fact they steer away from it. This can have a negative impact on business performance and on the rest of the team.
We have faced pretty much every situation in the past imaginable and can support you in a timely manner to get to the right outcomes. We recognise that UK employment law can be tricky for managers, so our expert team can keep you right.
We see many cases where issues go on for some time, often due to a fear of reprisal when we decide that it is time to part company with employees. We can give you the confidence to make tough decisions based on the facts of each case.
Sometimes it is helpful for someone independent to get involved. Demonstrating independence is always important to support your decisions.
We don’t just advise you of our position and the legal facts, we will take each step with you, draft all communications and chair meetings if you need us to. You are in safe hands.
Having an experienced independent third party involved not only helps to ensure you remain legally compliant, but it can make for a smoother process for all concerned.
Providing reassurance
Most leaders don’t feel comfortable dealing with conflict in the workplace, in fact they steer away from it. This can have a negative impact on business performance and on the rest of the team.
We have faced pretty much every situation in the past imaginable and can support you in a timely manner to get to the right outcomes. We recognise that UK employment law can be tricky for managers, so our expert team can keep you right.
We see many cases where issues go on for some time, often due to a fear of reprisal when we decide that it is time to part company with employees. We can give you the confidence to make tough decisions based on the facts of each case.
Sometimes it is helpful for someone independent to get involved. Demonstrating independence is always important to support your decisions.
We don’t just advise you of our position and the legal facts, we will take each step with you, draft all communications and chair meetings if you need us to. You are in safe hands.
Having an experienced independent third party involved not only helps to ensure you remain legally compliant, but it can make for a smoother process for all concerned.
What We Offer
- ✅ Provision of practical HR advice around how to get to your desired outcome, taking account of employment law and managing risk
- ✅ Support with drafting employee communications and specific management guidance
- ✅ Coaching managers step-by-step on how to approach employee relations issues, which increases skill level, confidence and ownership of issues
- ✅ Independent mediation, offering a safe, effective and confidential process for all parties in dispute to find their own solutions and reach agreement.
- ✅ Attendance at meetings either remote or in person dependent on location, situation and budget
We have the skills and experience to help you navigate a wide variety of employee relations issues in a way which gets you to the right result with management of risk. Whilst our team are experienced HR practitioners who understand employment law, they are not lawyers. They guide clients through processes taking employment law into account.
What We Offer
- ✅ Provision of practical HR advice around how to get to your desired outcome, taking account of employment law and managing risk
- ✅ Support with drafting employee communications and specific management guidance
- ✅ Coaching managers step-by-step on how to approach employee relations issues, which increases skill level, confidence and ownership of issues
- ✅ Independent mediation, offering a safe, effective and confidential process for all parties in dispute to find their own solutions and reach agreement.
- ✅ Attendance at meetings either remote or in person dependent on location, situation and budget
We have the skills and experience to help you navigate a wide variety of employee relations issues in a way which gets you to the right result with management of risk. Whilst our team are experienced HR practitioners who understand employment law, they are not lawyers. They guide clients through processes taking employment law into account.
How We Deliver Results: Our Proven Process
The Hunter Adams employee relations experts use tried and tested processes and formats to thoroughly investigate, report findings, make recommendations and observations, and provide robust outcomes for our cases. By tapping into their own experience of best practice and case law, as well as that of the wider team, we can ensure every client receives a thoroughly detailed, high-quality service and a follow-up report to help them to make robust decisions and manage any risk to their business. When managing an employee relations process on behalf of a client, our Associate Consultants operate an in depth ‘peer review’ process to ensure a Hunter Adams Business Manager has reviewed the details of the investigation, the findings and the output; ensuring the highest quality service is always being provided.
How We Deliver Results: Our Proven Process
The Hunter Adams employee relations experts use tried and tested processes and formats to thoroughly investigate, report findings, make recommendations and observations, and provide robust outcomes for our cases. By tapping into their own experience of best practice and case law, as well as that of the wider team, we can ensure every client receives a thoroughly detailed, high-quality service and a follow-up report to help them to make robust decisions and manage any risk to their business. When managing an employee relations process on behalf of a client, our Associate Consultants operate an in depth ‘peer review’ process to ensure a Hunter Adams Business Manager has reviewed the details of the investigation, the findings and the output; ensuring the highest quality service is always being provided.
Why Trust Hunter Adams?
How we will support you
We will provide an experienced employee relations expert on an interim hourly rate basis. The rate will vary depending on the complexity of the case. Typically the support will be remote but for those tricky situations where face to face is preferred, we can identify a local consultant who can attend client site.
Why Trust Hunter Adams?
How we will support you
We will provide an experienced employee relations expert on an interim hourly rate basis. The rate will vary depending on the complexity of the case. Typically the support will be remote but for those tricky situations where face to face is preferred, we can identify a local consultant who can attend client site.
Our Clients
We’ve supported clients across more than 30 sectors in the UK and overseas. We have managed ER cases for private, public and the third sectors.
Our Clients
We’ve supported clients across more than 30 sectors in the UK and overseas. We have managed ER cases for private, public and the third sectors.
Helping Prevent Small Problems From Becoming Big Ones
Often, we find that clients get in touch when a problem has been ongoing for an extended duration and things have grown to the point of crisis. Getting in touch early to obtain advice and support can help to prevent issues from escalating, but where problems have already grown, we can still help to:
- ✅ Run an independent process, or support you to get your process right
- ✅ Aid timely engagement and feedback to support with attendance and performance
- ✅ Talk managers through how to tackle an issue, providing guidance scripts to help where they may feel uncertain. This may relate to: probationary review process; absence management; performance improvement/management; disciplinary and grievance investigations; change management.
- ✅ Provide step-by-step coaching can be provided with or without draft documentation to help manage the move through any concerns or issues
- ✅ Independently manage investigations for you if an issue has already reached crisis point, formal investigation of an issue is required (disciplinary/grievance/whistleblowing) and your resources are stretched, or an independent person is required due to the specific circumstances. We can manage the process and provide you with a detailed report of findings and recommendations.
- ✅ Hunter Adams can guide you through whatever situation arises with the aim of getting you to where you want to be.
Helping Prevent Small Problems From Becoming Big Ones
Often, we find that clients get in touch when a problem has been ongoing for an extended duration and things have grown to the point of crisis. Getting in touch early to obtain advice and support can help to prevent issues from escalating, but where problems have already grown, we can still help to:
- ✅ Run an independent process, or support you to get your process right
- ✅ Aid timely engagement and feedback to support with attendance and performance
- ✅ Talk managers through how to tackle an issue, providing guidance scripts to help where they may feel uncertain. This may relate to: probationary review process; absence management; performance improvement/management; disciplinary and grievance investigations; change management.
- ✅ Provide step-by-step coaching can be provided with or without draft documentation to help manage the move through any concerns or issues
- ✅ Independently manage investigations for you if an issue has already reached crisis point, formal investigation of an issue is required (disciplinary/grievance/whistleblowing) and your resources are stretched, or an independent person is required due to the specific circumstances. We can manage the process and provide you with a detailed report of findings and recommendations.
- ✅ Hunter Adams can guide you through whatever situation arises with the aim of getting you to where you want to be.
Don’t Just Take Our Word For it...
We are confident in the quality and experience of our employee relations services and the consistent positive feedback we receive from clients reinforces this. We regularly receive repeat, high-level employee relations work from a wide variety of high-profile organisations across the UK, including from multiple UK legal firms, which we would be delighted to talk through with you in more detail.
Don’t Just Take Our Word For it...
We are confident in the quality and experience of our employee relations services and the consistent positive feedback we receive from clients reinforces this. We regularly receive repeat, high-level employee relations work from a wide variety of high-profile organisations across the UK, including from multiple UK legal firms, which we would be delighted to talk through with you in more detail.
