HR & Employment Health Checks
We recognise that especially when running a smaller business, you are unlikely to have an experienced HR professional as part of your senior management team. However, this doesn’t mean that you need to miss out on the opportunity to keep up to date with current employment law and HR best practice.
Recently we have seen the introduction of some significant employment law changes and employers everywhere will need to be getting to grips with these and amending their HR documentation and their approach to how they manage their employees
We provide a review of your current HR practices and documentation. This will enable us to highlight any risks, identify any gaps and ensure your people processes support current legal requirements and your business goals. Our aim is also to minimise your exposure to time consuming and costly workplace issues and Employment Tribunal claims.
As part of the health check, we typically assess:
- Employment Documentation
We review your employment contracts to ensure they are clear, legally compliant and aligned with your current working practices. - Recruitment & Onboarding
We examine your recruitment, onboarding and induction processes, including right-to-work checks and record-keeping, to confirm your procedures are consistent, efficient and compliant. - HR Policies & Procedures
We assess all key HR policies, such as sickness and absence, flexible working, family leave, equal opportunities, discrimination, harassment, and data protection, ensuring they are up to date and fit for purpose. - Performance & People Management
We review how disciplinary, grievance, capability and exit processes are managed to ensure they are fair, consistent and follow legal best practice. - Pay & Benefits
Whilst we do not offer benchmarking for salary and benefits, we can put you in touch with experts in this area. We can also introduce you to advisers who can help you review your benefit offering to see if you could be sourcing this more cost effectively. - HR Systems & Record-Keeping
We can guide you on the legal aspects of HR record keeping so that you are complying with current data protection legislation.
Contact Us
Do get in touch if you would like to discuss an HR or employment law enquiry
Joanna Atkinson
Practice Director
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We’ve been working with JMA HR & Legal Limited for a couple of years now, and we’ve always been very satisfied with the services they provide.
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Thank you… you’ve worked like a demon and with good results!
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Joanna provided first class service to me during a very difficult time both professionally and personally. She is one of those rare individuals who follows through on commitments, she calls when she says she will, she provides accurate documents on time and ensures that the transactions are completed in a professional and timely manner thus reducing your stress at what can be a difficult time. I highly recommend Joanna’s work.
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Thank you very much for your prompt and efficient work on this negotiation but most of all for communicating the various issues to me in such an understandable and most of all friendly way.
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I have worked with Joanna for a number of years… I have always received extremely clear, concise and pragmatic legal advice. Joanna is professional and creative with a great sensitivity to the situation and cultural context. Her guidance and direction is second to none.
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Thank you for the professional, careful & efficient service!
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I can’t recommend Joanna highly enough, she helped me to resolve a difficult situation, she was professional, supportive and gave thorough, clear and excellent advice. Joanna made a difficult situation seem stress free. Thank-you.
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Joanna has an eye for detail but remains pragmatic. She wants the best for her clients and ensures that the advice she gives is useful and actionable. I have worked with Joanna on more than one occasion and every time she has made me feel like I’m her only client.
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Joanna: good listener, provides specific & personalised advice, is to the point, flexible and dedicated to deliver results.
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Being an overseas company we’re not that familiar with the particularities of the UK social legislation and it’s very comforting to know that we can count on Joanna’s expertise.
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I was extremely impressed by Joanna, she quickly understood what I needed assistance with. Her advice was clear, and gave me the confidence to quickly resolve a situation. I would have no hesitation in recommending Joanna to anyone needing legal, business advice.
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We are a relatively small charity where sound external HR advice is needed. My experience of JMA HR and Legal is that they provided the appropriate level advice and service that we needed. In dealing with difficult issues, they showed an understanding and sensitivity, which gave us a path through it. All communication was clear and practical. Creating and advising on contracts and legal frameworks helped our charity run more efficiently.
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It’s been an extremely upsetting time for me. Verity, thank you so much for your professionalism and pragmatism. For fighting my corner when I felt defeated; and for steering a calm path when I was finding it hard to regulate my feelings. I’m in a position to reset and re-evaluate in my own time thanks to you. Its all very much appreciated.
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Verity really helped me navigate a very unsettling time. I can’t recommend her/them enough. She was sympathetic, knowledgeable, timely and a great ear. I felt with her help that I was able to navigate and be well prepared for the inevitable internal meetings which were very unnerving. With her great advice, I felt less alone, able to defend myself but also stay true to my own core values through the process. Good realistic advice about what you can achieve and how you can achieve it at this time is actually priceless. A great firm which I will now return to at the start of my new roles (new employment contracts) but hopefully not need them again at the end!
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Verity provided the best service I could have possibly asked for in what was a very difficult situation both professionally and personally. Verity walked through everything in a clear and calm manner which really put me at ease. She was there for support and questions at all hours which I can not thank her for enough. I would not think twice about recommending Verity and the team to anyone who requires HR legal advice.
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