Employee Relations Services

Services We Offer

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If you wish to effectively manage the “new” employment relationship, our services will help you:

  • Address people issues fairly
  • Comply with legislation and best in sector practice
  • Avoid human and financial impact of poorly managed processes
  • Resolve complex multi-layered issues and save time
  • Achieve impartiality
  • Advance EEDIB
  • Identify future process improvements
  • Achieve greater flexibility
  • Build multigenerational and diverse workplaces
  • Sustain stronger focus on intangible people success factors.

You can instruct PMPF to carry out investigations in any of the following areas:  

  • Harassment and or discrimination
  • Bullying
  • Perceived unfair management decisions (grievances)
  • Difficult working relationships (work related conflict)
  • Disclosures made in public interest (whistleblowing)
  • Performance related concerns
  • Complex or multi-layered matters (which may include the above).

To help address performance concerns, we will:

  • Provide on-going advice and guidance
  • Work through a structured process
  • Help achieve realistic conclusion of the matter.

We offer:

  • Facilitated conversations
  • Mediation
  • Coaching
  • Bespoke interventions based on restorative justice principles.

Based on our Understanding People Procedures (UPP) model,  PMPF will:

  • Deliver bespoke half or full day courses
  • Cover a range of employee relations aspects
  • Carry out pre and post learning evaluation.

Where a process that has been concluded internally comes under challenge, PMPF can undertake a review subject to a brief. Typically, this could be:

  • An independent review of an internal investigation
  • The outcome of a formal hearing
  • The outcome of a formal consultation
  • Selection for redundancy
  • Moderation of performance development appraisal
  • A recruitment appointment.

We can help you test:

  • The effectiveness of the whole or part of your ER service
  • Decision making frameworks
  • Team capability
  • People relations success factors
  • Equality / Equity impact.

When  facing a complex or multi-layered issue, we can:

  • Carry out an independent examination
  • Recommend options for resolve
  • Assist with decision making on the most appropriate and safest steps
  • Support next steps towards resolution.

Equality, equity, diversity, inclusion  (EEDI), belonging and wellbeing are essential to managing the employment relationship. As a standalone intervention, PMPF can review or carry out a new impact assessment on:

  • Organisational procedures
  • People policies
  • People strategy
  • People practices.

You can instruct us to:

  • Act as HR advisor to a hearing panel
  • Chair a hearing panel
  • Support case management presentation.