Given the need to comply with more and more legal
requirements, the amount of administration work associated with employing
just two or three people has become increasingly burdensome.
Financing problems with smaller companies means that employing in-house
HR people can be out of the question and the only solution is to
outsource this function to specialist hr service companies.
As businesses grow, the number of people employed in them also increases
and so does the quantity of people related procedures and policies that
the business needs to put in place.
Outsourcing HR support services allows small business owners to
concentrate their efforts on running the business and making additional
sales and profits. Larger businesses need to consider the cost
effectiveness of employing just a few people in an HR department when
they can outsource this function to a specialist HR facility.
Such a facility can draw on a much larger number of ‘specialist’ skills
from within it’s own business such as tribunal specialists, recruitment
specialists, administration specialists and policy implementation and
training specialists.
Outsourced HR help can be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week
which can be very convenient when an urgent issue need resolving. What’s
more you know that the advice and input you get is up to date with 100%
compliance to the most recent legislation.
Problems related to discrimination claims, absenteeism, grievances,
tribunal assistance and other employment law issues can be easily and
quickly dealt with using outsourced hr support services.
Perhaps the best and most common solution particularly for larger
business is to outsource specific parts of their hr function whilst
maintaining an in-house hr department. For instance, internal hr
departments could handle aspects that require specific knowledge of the
business such as recruitment, training and the handling of day to day
issues. But such hr staff could work alongside outsourced hr services
which could be responsible for setting up policies, providing legal
advice on such things as health and safety and employment law and even
providing legal representation at tribunal hearings where specialist
knowledge is essential.
Having the correct documentation has become an important issue. Up to
date contracts of employment which comply with current legislation,
health and safety handbooks, sickness and absence policy documents,
performance management and redundancy documents.
The beauty of outsourcing hr support services is that the business can
choose the functions they wish to outsource, this may be just one or a
few or everything. This allows the customer complete flexibility to set
and work within a budget.