AN EMPLOYEE RELATIONS CLIMATE STUDY AND LEGAL COMPLIANCE AUDIT
Establish where your weak points are in terms of your employee relations. B&A consultants will review your current policies, procedures, practices and terms of employment and will interview a cross section of staff to establish performance barriers and areas requiring remediation. A report will be supplied which may be used as the basis for Strategy Development. |
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STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
This is done either through direct consultations in the case of very small companies or through a workshop to be attended by key decision makers in larger organisations. This process will enable key decision makers to:-
- Develop, review, revise or confirm the Company’s Business Focus (i.e. Vision, Mission and Values) and prepare a First Draft to be work-shopped with employees.
- Conduct an analysis of the current state of the business and identify strategic issues that need to be addressed. This may include performance management, transformation, staff retention and talent management, employment equity, restructuring, HR policies and procedures, legal compliance, skills development and strategy for dealing with trade unions, if appropriate.
- Develop an Action Plan which includes setting goals, appointing leaders for project teams to address each of the key issues identified, setting target dates for projects and agreeing on processes for monitoring progress towards those goals.
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HR POLICIES & PROCEDURES
B&A has a comprehensive set of HR policies and procedures, which may be customised inexpensively to your specific needs.
These include:-
- employment contracts, a recruitment and selection procedure with the necessary documentation also provided;
- performance management and performance review procedures with the necessary documentation;
- job structuring and job evaluation;
- remuneration;
- policies dealing with all aspects of discipline from counselling through to disciplinary hearings with the necessary documentation;
- grievance handling;
- trade union recognition;
- retrenchment procedures;
- strike contingency plans;
- policies on substance abuse, sexual harassment, HIV/AIDS, electronic communication, hours of work, overtime, leave and sick leave, employment equity, training and more.
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CONSULTATIONS, NEGOTIATIONS AND DISPUTE HANDLING
B&A consultants conduct or provide advice/support in consultations or negotiations on behalf of clients. These can range from retrenchments to union recognition, wage negotiations to the handling of strikes. |
DISCIPLINARY HEARINGS
B&A provides competent chairpersons for disciplinary enquiries and appeals.
Consultants can also assist clients with the preparation for difficult cases so as to ensure that they are properly handled from the start. |
ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE
Consultants provide telephonic advice as well as personal assistance with difficult issues such as restructuring and retrenchments, poor performance, incapacity, sexual harassment, stock losses, fraud or theft. |
EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
B&A consultants can assist you to prepare employment equity plans and reports and in establishing and training Employment Equity Committees. |
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
B&A provide Skills Development Facilitators who can assist with compiling skills audits, workplace skills plans and reports as well as in claiming SD levies. |
CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATIONS
Through B&A’s association with the Guardian Employers Organisation, B&A clients who join the GEO are represented in conciliation and arbitration proceedings and receive legal cover in the event of cases being referred to the Labour Court or higher courts. |
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RETAINERS
Retainer clients are entitled to a full service which includes:-
- customization of policies and procedures;
- development and implementation of an overall HR Strategy covering performance management, staff retention and talent management;
- restructuring, shrinkage and stock loss prevention;
- trade union relations;
- employment equity;
- skills development;
- free telephonic advice;
- regular on-site consultations;
- assistance with dealings with trade unions;
- impartial chairpersons for disciplinary and grievance hearings;
- and assistance with disputes and referrals to the CCMA or bargaining councils.
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