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Did
you really enter the medical profession in order to spend your time worrying
about employment law and workplace health and safety?
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If
you did, this page is not for you. On the other hand, if, like many doctors, you
are becoming increasingly concerned over the time spent dealing with red-tape
relating to your staff, and if you are concerned at the potential costs of
getting it wrong, at a time when professional personnel management support to
medical practices from within the NHS is disappearing over much of the country,
this could be the news you’ve waited a long time to receive. As if you don't have enough to do, recent changes in employment law impose an increasing burden on doctors and other health care professionals struggling to manage their practices efficiently and effectively in the face of mounting pressures and an already extremely high workload. You
will probably have seen press reports telling how doctors such as yourself, as
well as employers in all other walks of life, have been taken to employment
tribunal by aggrieved employees or former employees and made to hand over
thousands of pounds by way of compensation. The simple fact is that employment
is changing faster than practically any other area of UK law. Even personnel and
human-resources professionals frequently admit to finding difficulty in staying
abreast of the welter of new legislation, regulation and case law. Many doctors,
who frankly just don’t have the time to keep up with all this, do not realise
until too late the extent of the potential costs of an ill-informed, poorly
judged, or hasty decision in respect of a difficult or troublesome employee. For
instance, unfair dismissal awards now run to £52,600, while other types of
claim, particularly those relating to discrimination or health and safety, are
unlimited. In the last few months, the tribunal awarded an applicant a staggering
£1.5
million. To complicate matters further, employment rights, as well as being more
extensive than at any time previously, also start earlier than ever before, with
some rights even preceding the start of employment. You can even be taken into
employment tribunal by people you’ve never once employed! In addition to all of this, busy health care professionals frequently find themselves in difficulty meeting the complex requirements of health and safety legislation, particularly in the complex area of risk assessment. To
remove this burden and let you get on with medicine, we have devised a highly cost-effective solution to these problems which
enables you to manage the people side of your practice as competently and
confidently as you manage medical issues. We
will ensure that
Having
created these important documents, we can keep them up to date for you to
reflect changes in legislation or case law, or indeed developments in your
particular practice. Our
experts are on hand 24 hours a day to advise, help, guide and support on any
human resources or health and safety issues as they arise. You need never again
waste time wondering how best to handle any staffing problem, no matter how
complex it might appear. We
will also defend any future employment tribunal at no further cost yourselves,
and we will even underwrite the other side's legal costs, the award, and any
compensation, in the event that we lose. This is an increasingly prudent piece
of risk management given the soaring increase in tribunal claims, and the huge
increases we are seeing in awards. To
help us assess how we might best help you, we will be pleased to arrange for an
member of our team to undertake a review of your current employment contracts,
policies and procedures, and also of your health and safety policy. This review,
which is entirely confidential, will be undertaken free of charge and entirely
without obligation. It will give you an up-to-date professional snapshot of any
potential problems lurking in your present arrangements and will show how to
prevent them developing into issues in the future. To arrange your free review or to learn more about how we might be of wider benefit to your practice, please telephone Graham Sanders on 020 7226 3353 or visit the Effective-HR Ltd site And are you sure you are meeting your Health & Safety obligations? Employment Tribunals Employment Advice
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For a free review of your existing control measures and introductory consultation contact Graham Sanders on 020 7226 3353
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