Contracts & Policies

Contracts & Policies

HR policies provide written guidance for employees and managers on how to handle a range of employment issues.

They play a key role in supporting fairness and consistency across an organisation, as well as potentially helping to protect the organisation against legal claims. 

To ensure HR policies are effective they need to be communicated and implanted well by the organisation, particularly line managers.

Legally you need to provide employees with:

• Statement of main terms and conditions (from day 1 of employment)
• Disciplinary procedure
• Grievance procedure

It is also good practice to have policies around:

• Equal opportunities
• GDPR policies
• Absence policy
• Anti bribery and corruption policy
• Whistleblowing
• Bullying and Harassment
• Flexible Working
• Performance Review
• Recruitment and Selection.
• Family Leave policy (Maternity / Paternity / Adoption / Shared Parental leave and pay)