Employer Protect – Welcome

Bespoke Employment Advice from Carter Moore

At Carter Moore, we don’t give standard advice. We know that, when dealing with staff, there’s no such thing as a standard disciplinary process or a standard redundancy process or a standard anything else.

We give bespoke advice- advice that’s tailored to your business and the particular circumstances you’re facing. That’s what’s different about Employer Protect.

Here at Carter Moore’s Employment Department, we’re both qualified solicitors. Consultancies like Croner,Peninsula, and others, use people who are not legally qualified to give advice in call centre conditions. What they give are instant answers. Our experience shows that instant answers can cause expensive problems.

Just because two situations look superficially similar, that doesn’t mean you should do exactly the same thing. It all depends on what’s reasonable in all the circumstances. That’s why we take time to find out all the relevant information. Our experience tells us what’s relevant.

Because we’ve done hundreds of Tribunal cases, the Solicitors at Carter Moore know what tribunals think is “reasonable” and what they think is unreasonable. We use that knowledge to guide you so that, if possible, you avoid Tribunal and, if not, you win.

If you take out the insurance that goes with Employer Protect and fulfil the conditions of the insurance, all the cost of our work defending you in Tribunal is covered.

The first thing we do, when you sign up to Employer Protect, is come out to your premises, so that we can find out about your business. That means you have both a name and a face you know. It also means we know what’s important to you and what’s different about your business sector.

When a Solicitor visits, he or she checks that your paperwork complies with the law and that it’s appropriate for your business. There’s no point having complicated procedures that no-one understands. We have extensive experience of drafting contractual documentation that works.

Part of the reason we do it like this is that S.1 of the Employment Rights Act says you must give every employee a statement of terms and conditions within 2 months. There’s now a penalty of between 2 and 4 weeks money for failing to do so. The sting is that an employee only gets that money if they sue for something else. So, if you haven’t got the right documents in place, you might face a claim that wouldn’t have happened otherwise.

If you’re an Employer Protect customer, the Solicitors at Carter Moore take the hassle out of employing people, so that you can get on with running your business.