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sage hr advice  Sage HR Advice is a legally reliable human resource advice service. It translates the law into plain English, as well as advising you how to manage your employees.
Sage HR Advice informs you of forthcoming changes to the law and gives you all the tools you need to remain compliant. The service goes much further than legal advice - it seeks to offer pragmatic, commercial guidance on how to manage your employees.
Sage HR Advice contains the following features:
- Website: A comprehensive, easy-to-use website full of guidance and advice, divided into three sections and over 40 topics. It translates the law into plain English and is continually updated with the latest developments in human resource management and employment law.
- Document Templates: This complete suite of HR documentation comprises over 100 procedures, step-by-step guides, letters, policies, forms and contracts of employment. These documents download instantly in Microsoft Word format for you to print onto company-headed paper.
- FAQs: An online bank of answers to businesses' frequently-asked human resource and employment law questions. We update this database continually 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 straight to your inbox.
Sage HR Professional contains all the features of Sage HR, plus:
- 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 we can easily refer to the history of an issue.
 More and more employees are finding opportunities to take their employers to Industrial Tribunals. It is in your interests, as an employer, to ensure that your employees are treated fairly and in accordance with the latest rules and regulations.
Are you compliant? Please consider the following ten simple questions:
- Are you satisfied that your contracts of employment are up to date and fulfil all legislative requirements?
- Have you updated your policies for the new statutory procedures for dismissal, discipline and grievance that came into effect on 1 October 2004?
- Are you confident that your processes for dismissing staff are fair, consistent and reduce your risk of being taken to an Employment 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, health and safety and sickness?
- Do your employees’ hours of work take into account the Working Time Directive, and their contract the flexible working legislation?
- Do your part-time, temporary and fixed-term employees all receive the same benefits, pro-rata, to full-time staff?
 If you answer ‘No’, or are uncertain of the answer, to any of the above questions, you are exposed to the potentially costly risk of an employee taking you to an Employment Tribunal.
Sage HR Advice helps to protect your business and keep you compliant with employment legislation. It also helps promote HR best practice.
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endeavour to provide a continuity of professional advisor to build a trusting relationship and save you from unnecessarily repeating information to different people.
We can help you make the best choice of product to benefit your business.
Contact us for further information.
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