Employment law support for UK employers

Lawrite provide fixed-cost employment law support to employers in the UK.

All employers need to know how to deal with recruitment, promotion, dismissals, staff management, disciplinary action, and grievance complaints, in a way that is fair, does not discriminate, or infringe employment rights.

More than 200,000 claims against employers are made to Employment Tribunals every year.

Many claims end up at Tribunals because employers fail to have proper procedures in place, or fail to use procedures effectively to prevent workplace disputes or grievances escalating into genuine and potentially very costly cases.

Fixed-cost employment law services

Employers who subscribe to our employment law services have access to the right legal documents, including contracts of employment and staff handbooks with all the policies and procedures required for legal compliance.

Lawrite fixed-cost employment law services start at just £125 a year.

• The Lawrite Employment Law Software, provides a wide range of document templates including contracts, agreements, staff handbooks with policies and procedures, letters to employees, and health and safety statements. There is an employment law manual, health and safety law manual and guides to dealing with HR issues in the workplace. Annual subscriptions include updates.
• The Employment Law Service adds to the software unlimited use of our legal advice line, for telephone legal advice about employment law, health and safety law and commercial law.
• Employment Law Plus adds insurance-backed protection from the defence costs of Employment Tribunal claims, to the benefits of the Employment Law Service.
• For ultimate employment law and HR support, there is our Managed HR Service, where bespoke documents are drafted to an employer's individual requirements by an employment lawyer, with on-going enhanced legal and HR support and advice.

There is more information available here:

• An overview of Lawrite employment law services.
• How to buy a Lawrite subscription.

Employment contracts and staff handbooks

Lawrite can provide employers with up to date UK employment law documents, including employment contracts, service agreements, contractor agreements, and staff handbooks with all the required policies and procedures.

• More information about employment contracts.
• More information about staff handbooks.

Employment law advice and HR support

We provide a clear explanation to employment law compliance. Our customers use the comprehensive guides and manuals we supply for employment law help, HR advice about workplace issues, and health and safety law guidance.

Unlimited telephone legal advice

Lawrite's telephone legal advice is provided by a team of working lawyers, not a call centre, and is there to provide a quick response to questions about employment law, health and safety law and commercial law.

Employment Tribunal claims protection

For protection from the legal costs of defending Employment Tribunal claims Lawrite can provide legal expenses insurance, which will cover legal defence costs and awards up to £100,000 per claim, and legal representation can be arranged. The insurance also covers health and safety prosecutions, criminal prosecutions, tax enquiries and property disputes. It is available as part of the Employment Law Plus and Managed HR services.

Health and safety law help

Lawrite provide our customers with a detailed guide to health and safety law, and templates for documents and forms to use to produce a health and safety policy, statutory health and safety statement and risk assessments.