Sage HR Advice. Legally reliable solutions to all your HR issues.

Sage HR Advice is a legally reliable human resource advice service. Sage Human Resources advice provides practical not legalistic solutions. It doesn't stop at legal advice it goes much further, offering pragmatic, commercial guidance on how to manage your employees.

Look at the questions below and if you are either unsure of the answer or say no to any questions then you may be at risk of an employee taking you to an employment tribunal.

• Are you satisfied that your contracts are up-to-date and fulfil all legislative requirements?
• Are your policies for dismissal, discipline and grievance up-to-date with the legislation that came into effect in October 2004?
• Are you confident that your processes for dismissing staff are fair, consistent and reduce your risk of being taken to a tribunal?
• Do your recruitment processes ensure that you recruit in a non-discriminatory fashion?
• Do you have a staff handbook, company rules and/or code of conduct that sets clear standards of behaviour for all employees?
• Are you ready for the new Data Protection, Road Transport Directive and Transfer of Undertakings Regulations that impact in 2005?
• Does your business adopt clear probationary and performance review processes?
• Does your staff handbook include policies for data protection, harassment, equal opportunities, grievance and sickness?
• Do your employees’ hours of work take into account the Working Time Directive?
• Do your part-time, temporary and fixed-term employees all receive the same benefits, pro-rata, as full-time staff?

Sage HR advice comes in 3 formats - Sage HR advice, Sage HR advice Professional and Sage HR advice tailored solutions.

As selecting the right correct solution may prove a time consuming task please call 0845 641 0624 or contact us for advice and the latest offer price.

Document Templates: A complete suite of HR documentation with over 100 procedures, step-by-step guides, letters, policies, forms and contracts of employment. All these documents can be downloaded into Microsoft Word for you to print onto company-headed paper.

FAQs: An online bank of answers to businesses' frequently-asked human resource and employment law questions. The database is continually updated with the answers to questions asked of our HR professionals.

Alerts: Proactive e-mail alerts tell you what you need to know and do ahead of legally required change and give you the tools to remain compliant.

Monthly Newsletters: Keep up to date with the latest developments in human resource management, employment law and best practice, delivered by e mail.

Service Updates: The Sage HR Advice website is constantly evolving - each month you’ll be sent an update of the most recent and important additions to the service.

Professional Advice: Speak with a human resource and employment law expert to receive legally reliable advice about your employee issues. You can make contact by telephone, 9-5 weekdays, and receive instant, practical advice. Telephone calls are charged at local rate, and you are not restricted in the number of calls that you can make during your 12-month subscription. Alternatively, e-mail your query and receive a response within two working days.

Compliance Trail: If you need a history of advice on which you have acted, the Sage HR Advice Professional service can supply you with an appropriate report, documenting website usage, documents downloaded, e-mail traffic and telephone calls.

Quality Service: Qualified professionals field your queries, with an average of over 10 years’ hands-on human resource experience. All calls are recorded and, where appropriate, a follow-up e-mail clarifies the main points of the advice given. The advice is not legalistic, but practical and tailored to your specific situation. Incidences are case number driven, so that the history of an issue can easily be referred to.

Compliance Review: makes your core documents, contracts of employment and company handbook, compliant quickly.

Audit: review of all relevant documents, policies and procedures, with recommendations for change and improvements.

Document Maintenance: Following an Audit, Sage can maintain all your documents, policies and procedures. This is a proactive maintenance service that will help you remain compliant with all legislative changes. You will be advised of changes that are necessary, be provided with redrafted documents and be guided how to communicate changes to your business.

Review Meetings: You can arrange for a professional adviser to visit you to assist you and your team with all your employment matters. Visits may be arranged for a frequency of your choice. The adviser will be dedicated to your account and, where possible, take any calls you make to the advice line between visits.

Training: Our training can be delivered to your professionals, managers and / or staff. Depending on the audience, the training can be technical, practical or both. Each training course is tailored to meet the customer’s specific needs.

Intranet: To complement our Audit, Document Maintenance, Review Meetings and Training services, Sage can also build your own-branded secure website to host all your relevant documents, policies and procedures.

Prices vary depending on whether you have a valid SageCover or SageCover extra at the time of purchase. Please contact us or call 0845 641 0624 for pricing.

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