HR and employment law clinic: Make employment law work for you

Employment law is a minefield. How many times have you heard that? Quite simply, it’s not true.

Yes, it can be tricky at times; but employers that treat people with reasonableness and objectivity will go a long way towards avoiding problems.

It is often said that employment law is stacked in employee’s favour and in certain circumstances this can be true but in many cases this simply isn’t the case.

We are often asked how to help businesses save money. Our normal answer is to make sure that a sickness absence is managed properly. The key to utilising employment law for your business is to identify the areas in which this can enable you to make efficiencies within its parameters. It’s about reducing the fear factor in the organisation; involving managers and leaders embracing employment law and its principles and making sure that this works in the best way in order to drive productivity and create efficiencies.

1. The employer pays the employee money;
2. In return they do the things they are asked to do;
3. Done in the way they are asked to do them.