Kmarc HR Consulting Northern Ireland
Contracts of Employment
Our legal compliance or comprehensive business audit will identify any weaknesses in your employment contracts and perceptions.
Did you know the contract is established when the person verbally accepts your offer of employment and terms discussed in the interview or in the job description, advert or person specification will form part of the express or implied contract terms? If not, you need Kmarc!
Did you know its not you who decides who is an employee, a contractor, a worker, an agency worker, a zero hours worker, a temporary worker etc. it’s the courts and tribunal.
They arrive at their decision based on your contracts and procedures. So you need to have your I’s dotted and your T’s crossed, do you? If not then you need Kmarc.
Employment contracts in Northern Ireland are subject to employment law regulations such as the ‘The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order, 1996’. Whilst there are no strict statutory requirements for a written employment contract, employers in Northern Ireland are legally obligated to provide employees with a written statement of terms and conditions within two months of starting employment. This statement, often referred to as the "written statement of employment particulars," should include certain key terms which Kmarc will help you with.
Have you made your Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures contractual by including them in your contract terms or should you?
Have you decided on termination procedures? It’s often too late to do it when you have to make the decision. Do you have a last in first out policy? This is often found to be discriminatory, which can massively boost a tribunal award.
Do you have ‘Confidentiality Clauses’ Have you got your confidentiality and non-disclosure clauses nailed down to protect your sensitive information?
Do you have your non-compete and restrictive covenants nailed down? otherwise you could lose your intellectual Property Rights (IP) or customers.
Do you have your IP rights nailed down? Did you now that you can claim the work or inventions of any employee and register a patent and gain other IP for ideas devised by your employees. But you need to have this nailed down tight before you can use it. Have you?
Kamrc can develop bespoke contracts which will ensure if you want to call someone an employee then they are, if you want them to be an agency worker then they are! etc and we will safeguard your confidentiality and IP rights.
How Kmarc Consultancy Can Help You With HR Policies and Procedures in Northern Ireland
What We do
Employee Relations
Independent HR Investigations - sometimes you don’t want your internal staff dealing with top management or Board issues or perhaps a sensitive bullying or sexual harassment claim. Our Kmarc HR team will carry out an independent investigation which will protect the organisation from allegations of bias if the issues move to Tribunal.
Disciplinary & Grievance Investigations - Sometimes you just don’t want to tie up your staff in looking at grievance or disciplinary issues and Kmarc can step in and free up your value resources.
Grievance & Disciplinary Case Management – at Kmarc We have seen, especially in the public sector, internal grievances and complex disciplinary issues linger for years with uncertainty, creating tensions, wasting time and often having key staff suspended on full pay for long period of time. Kmarc can shorten that process and protect the organisation from allegations of dragging out processes if cases come to Tribunal.
HR Health Check
Legal Compliance Audit – are your policies and procedure meeting even the basic legal standards? Kmarc will help you adapt your policies and procedures to ensure you have no loop holes that can be challenged legally.
Organisational Strategy Alignment Audit – are your policies and procedures actually creating adverse behaviours among staff as opposed to aligning staff to the organisational goals? Kmarc will help you align business and HR strategies, policies and procedures.
Comprehensive Legal, Business & Culture Audit – Is your business strategy enhanced or hampered by your actual organisational culture. Are you even aware what the culture in the organisation is? Kmarc will help you align business, culture and HR strategies, policies and procedures.
HR Systems
Kmarc HR Consulting can help you with developing and sourcing the correct HR system that meets your needs now and in the future.
Talent Management
Northern ireland is in an era of full employment, where job opportunities are abundant and the labour market is highly competitive, thus talent management becomes even more critical for organisations in Northern Ireland.
Talent management encompasses various processes and practices aimed at atracting, developing, retaining, and maximising the potential of your employees.
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