Employee Relations Support
At Hunter Adams we have a first-class team of employee relations (ER) experts who can support you at each step when it comes to issues such as grievances, disciplinaries and whistle-blowing cases. We partner with clients across all sectors to help them manage these sensitive situations.
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.
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.
Employee Relations Support
At Hunter Adams we have a first-class team of employee relations (ER) experts who can support you at each step when it comes to issues such as grievances, disciplinaries and whistle-blowing cases. We partner with clients across all sectors to help them manage these sensitive situations.
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.
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
- Strategies to help reduce absenteeism
- 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
- Strategies to help reduce absenteeism
- 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.
Our 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'll Deliver For You
Depending on the scale of your challenge, we can deliver on an ad-hoc consultancy basis, or we can provide you with a dedicated interim consultant who will work with you in-house. We have an in-house team of senior HR professionals based across the UK, as well as a strong and trusted network of associate consultants.
How We'll Deliver For You
Depending on the scale of your challenge, we can deliver on an ad-hoc consultancy basis, or we can provide you with a dedicated interim consultant who will work with you in-house. We have an in-house team of senior HR professionals based across the UK, as well as a strong and trusted network of associate consultants.
Our Clients
We’ve supported clients across the following sectors on ER cases:
- Retail
- Legal
- Public Sector
- Technology
- Manufacturing
- Professional Services
- Finance
- Education
- Oil & Gas supply chain
- Third Sector
- Pharmaceutical
- Health Care Providers
- Start-Ups / SMEs
- Media
- Hospitality
Our Clients
We’ve supported clients across the following sectors on ER cases:
- Retail
- Legal
- Public Sector
- Technology
- Manufacturing
- Professional Services
- Finance
- Education
- Oil & Gas supply chain
- Third Sector
- Pharmaceutical
- Health Care Providers
- Start-Ups / SMEs
- Media
- Hospitality
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.
View and download our Employee Relations Support Services brochure where you can see a snapshot of our recent cases.
View and download our Employee Relations Support Services brochure where you can see a snapshot of our recent cases.
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.
View and download our Employee Relations Support Services brochure where you can see a snapshot of our recent cases.
View and download our Employee Relations Support Services brochure where you can see a snapshot of our recent cases.