Frequently Asked Questions

All employers are legally required to provide a foundation for their employees, this includes an outline of their terms and conditions of employment which is usually supported by a suite of policies and procedures, referred to as the employee handbook.

Employees are very familiar of their rights today and as such have no fear of taking their employer or previous employer to an employment tribunal. Therefore the financial implications are significant, not to mention the costly tribunal awards should you be unsuccessful.

Yes. All employers have an obligation to issue a contract of employment within the first 8 weeks of any new employee joining. Failure to provide not only breaches employment law requirements, the business may also find themselves with unwanted compensation being awarded for failure to provide, should they be taken to an employment tribunal for other employment matters.

Yes. All workers must be issued with a form of contract, regardless of the hours they work. All are a valuable resource to any business and should expect written terms of their working conditions and be made aware of Company rules and expectations. Recommended contract agreements are as follows;

Part time, Casual
Temporary and Fixed Term
Apprentices
Volunteers or Voluntary Workers
Sub-contractors and Self-employed

There are many access points, whether this be ACAS or other providers such as Law Firms or HR Consultants. Triangle HR have a team of experienced and competent Consultants, all of whom focus on providing a commercial, cost effective and a practical approach to managing Human Resources activity in the workplace.

Triangle HR are highly regarded in their field of HR expertise and hugely proud of the portfolio of clients we support, which includes employers within the manufacturing, food and hospitality, healthcare, professional services and football to name a few. Our clients are also more than happy to share their experience and provide references where required. However, for ultimate peace of mind, all our advice is indemnified and recorded to ensure we continually achieve high level of client satisfaction.

Triangle HR provide employers with a range of flexible solutions from remote ad hoc support with a one off project to regular onsite Consultant presence, either in the capacity of HR Advisor or HR Administrator. Where we work with clients on a regular basis we offer cost effective retained packages, which enables employers to spread the costs.

Triangle HR work with clients in many ways. Usually starting off with a full audit of their existing HR documentation which is entirely free. Followed by the development of all appropriate contracts of employment and the employee handbook.

Thereafter we act as an outsourced HR business partner offering support in many ways, but typically supporting recruitment processes, managing sickness absence cases, through to facilitating a disciplinary or grievance hearing. The team also regularly support restructuring programmes, redundancy processes and other sensitive related terminations such as settlement agreements.