Welcome to our latest newsletter.
We provide professional HR support and payroll services to organisations across Oxfordshire and the surrounding counties. Our goal is to keep you up to date with the latest developments in HR and Payroll that affect your business. We will publish useful hints and tips, interesting business articles and feature the occasional competition with prizes.
Fiona Armitage
Partner
Critchleys HR and Payroll LLP |
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NEWS: Can You Afford An Employment Tribunal?
  Did you know that there were over 200,000 Employment Tribunal Claims last year in England and Wales?
A disability discrimination case brought last year resulted in the largest ever employment tribunal payout in Wales - at just under £400,000!
With the recent removal of the default retirement age, experts are predicting a significant rise in Age Discrimination claims.
Can your business afford the disruption, emotional upheaval, and substantial costs of fighting and potentially losing an employment tribunal?
In most cases, prevention is better than the cure. Critchleys HR and Payroll can help you prevent unnecessary claims, support you during any disciplinary processes, insure you against any adverse tribunal payouts, and offer you peace of mind across the whole employee minefield!
For more details about last year's UK Employment Tribunal Claims, click here, but more importantly, do call Fiona and her team on 01865 261188 and make sure you are covered. |
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CLIENT TESTIMONIAL
"The monthly retainer represents excellent value for money and I would heavily recommend this as a 'must have' to other employers."
Gareth Bertram
Director
Hacketts Summertown Coffee Bar
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HINTS & TIPS: Varying Employee Contracts
 In the current economic climate, some organisations' profit margins are shrinking and many small businesses may now be considering a change to one of their largest costs - wage bills.
Not a popular topic of conversation, but most forward-thinking employees should appreciate that a reduction in wages has to be a better option than widescale job losses.
Wages, salaries, and employee benefits are the most emotive issues for all employers and implementing any significant change to employee contracts has to be handled with care - both from the HR legal compliance standpoint but also to minimise any fall in staff morale.
Fortunately, we've prepared a short guide with suggestions about how to implement changes to employee contracts. If you are even considering this area, you really must read this before your next move!
Click here to read our instructional guide on varying employee contracts. |
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RETAINED CLIENTS AREA
Our HR Advice Line clients have online access to their own area of our website. This private resource contains employment and HR documents, employer guides, employment law updates, case studies and client special offers.
Click here for this month's flowchart on how to implement:
Varying Employee Contracts
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CASE STUDY: Outlook Management Solutions
 Outlook Management Solutions provide vending solutions throughout Oxfordshire and across the UK. They supply the leading vending machines and well-known snack and drink brands from Kenco to Nestle.
Your vending machine's stock replenishment and servicing requirements are automatically relayed to their management centre to ensure a fast response.
Outlook Management Solutions use the Critchleys HR Advice Line service.
"Critchleys HR and Payroll have helped us in a number of ways", said Walter Gill, Marketing Director for Outlook Management Services. "Their advice has included helping us to standardise our terms and conditions, answering day to day people queries involving holidays and absence etc, through to significant advice about TUPE and our reorganisation of the business."
"They are friendly, professional, and knowledgeable but, importantly, they really understand the potential impact on our business of any significant changes."
For more information about our Critchleys HR Advice Line, please click here. |
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COMPETITION: Meal For Two At The Eyston Arms
 This month, we are delighted to offer the prize of a meal for two at the wonderful Eyston Arms in Oxfordshire's East Hendred village.
You will be warmly greeted by Daisy Barton and her team whose food has been receiving rave reviews, so we know you'll have a delightful experience.
To enter the competition, simply answer our August question as follows:
"What was the name of the French chef who invented the Peach Melba?"
Email your answer and contact details to Fiona at: farmitage@critchleyshr.co.uk and we'll draw the winner from the correct entries on Monday 15th August. |
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ABOUT CRITCHLEYS HR AND PAYROLL
 We specialise in working with clients who do not have the time to keep up to date with employment law or process payroll.
Our aim is to remove much of the worry and risk that comes with employing staff, by offering professional HR support and payroll services.
For more information, see www.critchleyshr.co.uk or contact Fiona Armitage on 01865 261188.
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