Employment Law and Health & Safety provider

Croner offers market-leading outsourced employment Law, HR, and Health & Safety Support.  Established since 1941, assisting clients in saving time, reducing hassle, cutting costs, and ensuring safety and compliance.

Serving over 14,000 clients of varying sizes across the UK, they provide a free onsite or video business health check for any members. This check includes a critique of existing documentation—such as contracts of employment, employee handbooks, health & safety policies, safety handbooks, and other relevant policies—to ensure compliance with the latest legislation and inclusion of necessary waivers for business protection. During this meeting, they also offer free legal advice for any ongoing issues and guidance on upcoming HR legislation within the next 100 days under the new Labour government.

Croner offers the following benefits for full clients:

1. 24/7 HR and Employment Law support, available 365 days a year from a team of consultants. They assist with everything from recruitment to redundancy, providing case-managed support, including help with emails, letters, and scripts for meetings. Their services cover poor performance issues, long-term sickness management, and mental health support.
2. Bespoke contracts of employment and employee handbooks tailored to the business’s culture and ethos.
3. Legal protection and insurance against tribunals.
4. An Employee Assistance Programme that offers telephone and onsite counselling support for all employees.
5. Award-winning, cloud-based people management software, which includes a clocking-in app, expenses app, holiday, absence, overtime management, and rota system.
6. 24/7 support for accidents, near misses, and risk assessments.
7. Health & Safety audits, documentation, and software, including e-learning training, task and accident management, and risk assessments.

Employment Rights Bill Special

On 10 October 2024, the Government published its Employment Rights Bill, setting out its plans to deliver on the promises made in its pre-election Plan to Make Work Pay.

• In a major overhaul of workers’ rights, the Bill includes 28 proposed changes to employment law and will affect every employer, regardless of size or industry.

• The reforms will affect all aspects of the employment relationship from enhancing existing rights, pay, time off and contracts, to equality laws, family-friendly rights and trade union relations.

• Key proposals include introducing a brand-new right to bereavement leave from day one of employment, making flexible working the default where practical (unless the employer can show it is unreasonable), and making paternity leave and parental leave available from the start of employment.

• Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) will be paid from the first day of absence instead of the fourth day and the Lower Earnings Limit to become eligible for SSP will be removed.

• The proposals in the Bill will need to go through the usual parliamentary process before becoming law so employers should keep a close eye on developments.

• Our HR Documentation Team will provide all new and updated policies and contracts including a new Bereavement Policy, our Croner Face2Face Team can carry out training for your managers and our 24/7 HR Advisory Team are on hand to help you to navigate these changes.