In order to illustrate how a company
utilises the services we provide we have selected four
examples of recently completed projects…
Attendance Management & Revised Sick Pay
Scheme
Retained HRFunction
Redunancy and Site Closure
Improvement Notice and Health & Safety
Committee
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Case
Study 1
Attendance Management & Revised Sick
Pay Scheme
An established manufacturing company (80 staff) wished to provide: 1. A more generous sick pay scheme to reward long serving employees 2. More attractive conditions for recruitment and retention purposes.
The
major concerns:
No significant increase in business costs, or
absenteeism. hchr, on a project basis, costs agreed up front, provided:
- Analysis of current absenteeism patterns
- Revised sick
pay scheme
- Provision of a system of attendance management
to remove subjectivity from process and provide managers with
easy to follow approach.
- Comprehensive Attendance policy
to deliver consistency
- Communication of new system to all
staff
- Management & Supervisory training to administer
policy Issue of revised contracts of employment and secure
agreement of staff
The Company succeeded in its aims to provide a sick pay scheme
in line with best practice yet without increasing costs. Absenteeism
some two years later remained well below the industry average.
Case Study 2
Retained HR
Function
A new rapidly growing technology company with office in the UK
and USA engaged hchr to help them grow their business in line with
their culture and ethics. Initially work was identified on a project
basis, thereafter hchr retained as outsourced hr for the Company
- Contracts of Employment
- All HR Polices and Procedures
- Recruitment and induction for of all UK based staff
- Develop
and conduct Induction training
- Assist managers to develop meaningful
objectives for staff and train them in how to review performance
effectively
- Demystify Health & Safety obligations and
translate into a user friendly manual; and timetable of actions
with responsibilities allocated to specified individuals
- Team
typing and development using MBTI to achieve greater team working
efficiencies
- Training needs analysis
Case Study 3
Redundancy
and Site Closure
A processing company employing over 100 people across two sites,
at different ends of the country, was experiencing crippling transport
costs. hchr was engaged to manage the HR aspects of the closure
of one site and the transfer of work to the other site. It was
essential to the future of the business that this be actioned,
as quickly as possible but without disruption to the remaining
site and the unnecessary cost/ bad publicity of employment unrest/applications
to Employment Tribunals. hchr advised Directors of risks and prepared
and implemented an action plan designed to avoid these very tangible
and potentially costly risks
- Conducted all consultations, collectively with Trades Unions
and individually
- Maintained accurate records of all meetings/consultations
etc
- Issue of statutory documentation
- Agreeing and applying
selection criteria
- Calculation of severance costs and preparation
of termination letters
The transfer was completed to time and budget and there were
no appeals and no employment tribunal claims.
Case Study 4
Improvement Notice
and Health & Safety Committee
A business employing 60 people had been served with an improvement
notice, had been part of a much larger group. The management of Health & Safety
had slipped without the central support it had once had, so considerable
work was required to bring the Company to a legal level hchr liaised
with the HSE to demonstrate the Company’s commitment and secure additional
time. Our aim was to get the basics in place, address the improvement
notice issue and educate the management and staff. hchr worked over
a 3 month period to:
- Liaise with HSE by telephone and formal written response.
- Conduct
a complete Health & Safety Audit
- Establish an
operational Health & Safety Policy
- Allocate responsibilities
and train all staff accordingly
- Undertake all major risk assessments
and train staff accordingly
- Establish & run the Health & Safety
committee, training staff Establish action plan and allocate responsibilities
to individuals
The issues were complex and not solved quickly, but we demonstrated
to the HSE that the Company was committed to improving Health & Safety,
and were granted extensions which gave time to get things in order.
The improvement notice has been lifted. The company now has a self
sufficient system of Health & Safety management.
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