by Inhouse Reporter
23. August 2012 11:36
One of the benefits of being a NALS licenced firm is access to a free health and safety/employment law helpline, run for our licenced firms by Peninsula.
Peninsula also run regular events on important issues, which are free for NALS members to attend.
We asked Nick Babington of Peninsula to give us an insight into the company and the services they offer:
Peninsula is the UK’s largest employment law & health and safety consultancy, providing advice to more than 26,000 employers.
Our service is personally tailored from initial consultations to the assessment, implementation and monitoring of procedures by our experienced specialist consultants aiming to protect your business and livelihood. Peninsula wants to support your business growth by allowing you to focus on your business priorities, whilst they take the worry out of employment law, tax, health and safety issues and legislation. Peninsula represents businesses of all sizes, from small family-run companies to large blue chip corporations and is ready to help with issues faced by senior management including grievance procedures, redundancy and any other legal obligations challenging business owners.
Photo: Nick Babington
With ever changing and usually difficult to understand legislation, health and safety can prove a real issue for companies to deal with. Here at Peninsula, we can help elevate this stress by making sure your business is up to date with legislation and giving you advice on how to deal with this typically troublesome area. Our experts will be available to make sure your business are the right side of the law with respect to Health and Safety legislation, meaning you can focus on your core competencies.
Employment law has never been more important for businesses, especially since the Equality Act came into play on 1st October 2010.
This legislation represents the biggest change to employment law in decades and means it is more important than ever for employers to understand the legislation put before them. This change in legislation has ultimately meant businesses need to change their approach where they will need to update and implement new policies to keep on the right side of the law to protect not only their employees, but themselves from any claim that may be bought against them. Implementing new policies to keep in line with the new Equality Act, and other legislation for that matter, can prove a challenge that businesses could do without and that is where Peninsula can help.
We have both a Legal Advice Line Service and Health and Safety Advice Line Service available to help you with any type of employment law or health and safety query, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. They are waiting to help you through the maze of legislation, giving advice on redundancy and disciplinary procedures, to name just two. They are even on hand to give employers guidance on formal letter creation and proof legal documentation for clients.
Peninsula has also introduced a brand new service recently available to clients, the Employee Assistance Programme. This service is to aid employees in getting over any stress they may be suffering from in the workplace which is affecting their quality of output. The EAP offers quick and confidential advice to help solve the problems that employees may be facing in the workplace. Help is available via a telephone service, face to face counselling and an online health portal, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This is a sure way to reduce absence within your business.
Visit the Peninsula website >>> here.
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