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Almost a third of employers wouldn’t hesitate to take action against their employer over a work issue. At the same time, 64% of employers would put off taking action against their employees.
During our recent webinar, Dealing with Employee Disputes | Essential Policies, Training Managers and Preventing Tribunal Claims, WorkNest’s Director of Legal Services, James Tamm, and HR Business Partner, Hannah Copeland, share some of the more concerning findings from our recent Mind the Gap report and offer practical recommendations to help you protect your organisation and take the power back, including:
- The essential policies employers need in place to manage employees (and when to use them)
- How to train and support managers, and why this is key to handling employee disputes effectively
- The tools you can use to facilitate communication and dispute resolution between employers and employees
- Tribunal claims 101: the process, costs, most common claim types to be alert to, and other important statistics
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Get support dealing with employee disputes
Good knowledge of employment law, solid policies, and confident and competent managers, are the key components you need in place to quash employee disputes quickly and reduce the potential risk of them escalating into a Tribunal claim. However, many employers lack the time, resource and knowledge to cover all bases sufficiently – and that’s where we can step-in to ease the pressure.
At WorkNest, we assign each of our clients a small, dedicated team of Employment Law experts as part of our unlimited, fixed-fee service who get to know your business inside out. When issues arise, your team will talk you through your legal options, draft any written correspondence you require, and walk you through each stage of the process – saving you time, ensuring you’re compliant and mitigating legal risk.
If you’d like to arrange an exploratory call to find out if our service is a good fit for your organisation, schedule a callback at a time convenient for you.
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