Sectors
Professional Services
Our fixed-fee support allows professional services businesses to supercharge their workforce, protect their reputation and save valuable time and money.
For businesses in the professional services sector, time is money, and juggling the day-to-day realities of HR issues and health and safety management can detract from your ability to focus on achieving key objectives.
Helping you with
Specialist advice and support for professional services
At WorkNest, we recognise that every organisation is different. But with specialist sector teams, you can benefit from the shared insight and expertise of our advisers, who support hundreds of other professional services organisations facing similar challenges to you.
Professional services clients at WorkNest benefit from:
- Expert advice from an experienced team of sector specialists
- Fixed fee certainty to give you peace of mind
- Independent Legal Expenses Insurance
Experts in Employment Law & HR
Whether you’re dealing with a particularly precarious employee matter, facing a claim or simply strapped for time, our qualified Employment Law experts will provide straightforward, practical support on a whole range of employment challenges, including:
- Performance;
- Misconduct and disciplinary;
- Grievance;
- Sickness absence;
- Bullying, harassment and discrimination;
- Pay and holiday entitlement;
- Maternity and paternity;
- Settlement agreements;
- Recruitment and retention;
- Contractual issues; and
- Employment Tribunals.
With the number of Employment Tribunal claims brought against employers increasing year on year, we will ensure your business takes all necessary measures to proactively prevent issues before they arise – saving you the time and expense involved in defending a claim. For added protection, all of our advice is backed up by Legal Expenses Insurance to cover your costs and give you complete peace of mind in difficult situations.
Experts in Health & Safety
Battling a growing number of employee absences from issues such as work-related stress? Not confident that you’re compliant with all relevant legislation? Our experienced Health & Safety Consultants will ensure you’re well equipped to control the risks arising from:
- Stress;
- Display screen equipment;
- Slips, trips and falls;
- Visitors and contractors;
- Fire;
- Electrical equipment;
- Events;
- Site facilities and outdoor areas; and
- Office ventilation, lighting and air quality.
Starting by conducting an onsite General Risk Assessment to get a full understanding of how you operate, we will work with you to develop and implement a tailored plan to keep your business on track. This is backed up by award-winning Health & Safety Software to allow you to monitor and manage areas of business risk across multiple sites, ensure staff understand and meet their responsibilities, and ultimately protect your people and your reputation.
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24/7 unlimited support from your dedicated advisers
Whichever service you use, our highly qualified advice teams will form the bedrock of your relationship with WorkNest. You get named advisers, ensuring the support and advice you get remains consistent and from people who understand your business.
Employment Law Advice
Health & Safety Advice
Best practice documents, personalised for you
Your Employment Law and Health & Safety advisers will work with you to create compliant, best practice contracts, policies and handbooks that meet the specific needs of your organisation.
Employment Contracts and Handbooks
Health & Safety Policies and Handbooks
Control your financial risk with our Legal Expenses Insurance
With the amount and cost of claims rising, and new risks emerging, our independent Legal Expenses Insurance gives you piece of mind that if things don’t go as planned, you aren’t hit with unforeseen expenses.
Legal Expenses Insurance for Employment Tribunals
Legal Expenses Insurance for Health & Safety Prosecutions
Innovative platforms to help you maximise your investment
Alongside your advice line services, you’ll have access to our software platforms, giving you instant access to hundreds of EL and H&S templates and resources, as well specific tools to manage HR and H&S compliance.
myWorkNest
SafetyNest
Additional, experience HR support, whatever your need
Entirely bespoke, based on sector experience and tailored to your exact needs, our HR Consultancy services range from on-site support with disciplinaries and grievances to restructures and developing your HR strategy.
Delivered by a growing network of experienced and qualified HR Consultants across the UK, these hands-on HR services can be seamlessly integrated with our Employment Law and HR support to provide comprehensive solutions to your workforce challenges and identify opportunities for improvement and growth.
Understand and manage your compliance with audits and specialist risk assessments
Our experienced H&S consultants will complete full audits and well as specialist risk assessments, identifying your areas of concern and providing practical guidance on how to reasonably mitigate risks in the future.
Audit and Inspection
Risk Assessments
Transform your approach to training
Tired of classroom training, or unable to take time out? Our HR and Health & Safety e-Learning courses for managers and employees are a convenient and powerful alternative, incorporating videos and interactive testing for more flexible learning and development.
HR & Employment Law e-Learning
Health & Safety e-Learning
Experts in Professional Services
Experts in Employment Law, HR and Health & Safety
What makes us unique is that we combine the service quality of a law firm with the certainty of fixed-fee services to provide expert, solutions-focused Employment Law, HR and Health & Safety support tailored to your organisation.
Our people are the basis of our service. They are the reason why we have a 95% client satisfaction rate and an annual client retention rate of 97%.
Our sector experts help business leaders like you to:
- Proactively solve problems;
- Ensure regulatory compliance; and
- Achieve commercial objectives.
