Owner Managers
Working with owner managers is an important part of our client work and we enjoy helping them meet and overcome the particular challenges they face.
As an owner manager, at least some of the time you may need to act as "personnel" or "hr manager". It is a responsibility which can cause more uncertainty and angst than any other aspects of running your own business. This is not surprising when employment law demands on businesses are so great, regardless of the number of employees.
It is easy to get caught out. You're busy focusing on trying to grow your business and need to keep your customers happy too. But sometimes, even with all your hard work and the best of intentions, an employee related problem can crop up when you least expect it. If this happens, Quantrills can provide you with the right level of advice and guidance whatever the problem.
Of course, prevention is the always the best approach. Our hrlegal audit service can help you to identify and put in place all the relevant personnel and employment policies, systems and procedures so that there is much less risk of being unprepared.
We're proud to be a little different from other solicitors. We prefer jargon-free plain speaking. We will not shirk from telling you what you may not want to hear - if your staff-related plans or ideas are unrealistic - we will tell you. We are also skilled at helping owner managers escape from their mistakes. There is little that we have not seen or handled!
Recent examples of our advice work for owner managers include:
- handling employee grievances
- managing poor work performance
- setting up a personnel system
- implementing redundancies
- dismissing for gross misconduct
- negotiating a settlement of an unfair dismissal case
- contracts of employment
- employee handbook
- advising on the status of workers
- sickness absence cases
- protecting confidential information
- successfully defending employment tribunal claim