The following FREE Employment Law Health Check has been designed to help you identify which of your practices and procedures fall below legal requirements. The Health Check is suitable for all companies of all sizes.

Please answer the below questions and you will then receive a free report detailing amongst other things, where you may face an Employment Tribunal Claim or where you do not meet the required standards.

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Employees

1. How many employees do you have? 1-9 10-19 20-49 50+

2. Do you have any part-time, casual, short term, agency or fixed-term workers or consultants? Yes No

Contracts of employment

3. Do you have contracts of employment? Yes No

4. If so do they contain the following clauses: start date, name of parties, job title, place of work, hours of work, pay rates, bonus or commission details, deductions from wages, overtime arrangements, pay period, holiday entitlement, sick pay entitlement, pension provision, notice arrangements, disciplinary and grievance policies, collective agreements, data protection clauses, confidentiality, conflict of interest, restrictive covenants, intellectual property, garden leave? Yes No

5. Have your contracts been reviewed in the last 12 months? Yes No

6. Do you issue written statements of employment within two months of employment to your employees? Yes No

7. Do you have a staff handbook of policies and procedures? Yes No

Employee data and monitoring

8. Does your retention of employee personal information comply with the Data Protection Act? Yes No

9. On recruiting a new employee do you check and take a copy of necessary personal documents required to prevent illegal working e.g. passport? Yes No

HR

10. Do you have a HR Department? Yes No

11. Have your HR Department managers received appropriate training? Yes No

Pay and benefits

12. Do you pay at least the National Minimum Wage? Yes No

13. Do your employees work on average in excess of 48 hours a week? Yes No

14. Do your full time employees receive 24 days paid holiday a year? Yes No

Family Friendly

15. Do you have pregnancy, maternity, paternity, parental, adoption, dependent leave and flexible working policies? Yes No

Discrimination

16. Do you have policies on equal opportunities, bullying and harassment? Yes No

17. Do you treat everyone fairly and equally irrespective of their age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or race? Yes No

18. Do your male and female employees receive equal pay for broadly similar or equal work? Yes No

Sickness and incapacity

19. Do your policies for sickness and incapacity comply with the statutory requirements? Yes No

20. Do you have any members of staff on long term sick? Yes No

Discipline and grievances

21. Do you have disciplinary, dismissal and grievance procedures and policies? Yes No

22. Do you have any ongoing disciplinary or grievance investigations? Yes No

Redundancy and Restructure

23. Do you propose making anyone redundant? Yes No

24. Do you propose restructuring the business imminently? Yes No

Employment tribunals

25. Have you had any recent claims made against you in an employment tribunal? Yes No

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