Holmes & Hills

Services for Employers Legal advice, compliance & training

Kelly Green

CSS Recruitment

& Training

David Dixey

Holmes & Hills

Solicitors

Services for employers Holmes & Hills Solicitors and CSS Recruitment & Training

(CSS) have partnered to offer employers a complete range

of expert services to meet all of your needs relating to

Employment Law. These services provide cost-effective

Legal Advice Legal advice and representation covering all matters relating to employees and workers

from Holmes & Hills Solicitors, including:

Diagnostic audit of existing employment contracts and policy documents

Drafting of new contracts and employment policy/procedure documents

Telephone advice line

Professional auditing and advisory services from CSS relating to compliance with:

Health and safety regulations

Fire safety regulations

Food safety regulations

A full portfolio of specialist training courses provided by CSS covering:

First-aid

Health & safety

Food safety

Manual handling

Fire safety & fire marshal

Driving

Construction site safety (CITB)

Management & leadership

solutions to Employment Law problems, but more

importantly help you to avoid potentially costly

Employment Law issues arising by providing services that

ensure legal protection and compliance.

Holmes & Hills

Service providers working in partnership

Holmes & Hills Solicitors is independently

recognised as one of the leading law firms in the

region by The Legal 500 and Chambers &

Partners—two independent directories of the

UK’s top law firms.

Holmes & Hills has five offices across Essex and

Suffolk and approximately 100 staff across eight

specialist legal teams. The firm acts for a large

number of local authorities across Essex and

Suffolk as well as medium-sized businesses.

Offices in Braintree, Sudbury, Halstead, Tiptree

and Coggeshall.

CSS Recruitment and Training is a family-driven

business founded on the core principle of

integrity. Once you get to know us, you’ll find out

how much we care about delivering a value

added service, and the long term solution. You’ll

find it refreshing that we listen carefully, take

time to understand and then make sure we

deliver precisely what you need. The ability to

take care of each and every aspect of your needs

in both recruitment and training means we can

offer you a commercially enhanced service. It’s

about meeting all your needs.

Offices in Braintree, London, Thetford, Kings Lynn

and Coventry.

Compliance

Training

Tel: 01376 320456

Email: legaladvice@holmes-hills.co.uk

Web: www.holmes-hills.co.uk

Tel: 01376 330700

Email: reception@csspeople.co.uk

Web: www.csspeople.co.uk

Training

First-Aid

Driving

Abrasive Wheels

Asbestos Awareness

Cable Management

Environmental Awareness

Harness Awareness

Legionella Awareness

Level 2 Health and Safety in the Workplace

Qualitative Face Fit Testing

Risk Assessment

Safe Handling of Cylinders

Working at Height

Digital Tachograph Training

Driver CPC Periodic Training

Health & Safety

Level 2 Emergency First Aid at Work

Level 3 First Aid at Work

Food Safety

Food Safety Awareness

Level 2 Food Safety (Catering)

Level 2 Food Safety (Retail)

Level 2 Food Safety (Manufacturing)

Manual Handling

Manual Handling (Objects)

Fire Safety

Fire Marshal/Fire Safety

Management & Leadership

Basic Management Skills

Conflict Management

Lone Working

Managing Difficult Behaviour

Positive Leadership Skills

CITB

CDM Regulations 2015

Health & Safety Awareness

SMSTS (Site Management Safety Training Scheme)

SSSTS (Site Supervisor Safety Training Scheme)

CSS provides a comprehensive portfolio of training courses

to meet all the training needs of employers, including

bespoke training courses tailored to meet the specific

needs of your business. Training courses provided by CSS

include those falling into the categories below.

Kelly Green

CSS Recruitment & Training

When faced with an employment

issue you are unsure how to deal

with, you can call Holmes & Hills’

Employment Law specialist. David

offers free initial guidance over the

phone where a 10 minute call is

enough to guide you.

If you regularly require succinct

specialist advice over the telephone

from an Employment Law expert, we

offer a pay-as-you-go advice line,

with direct access to our Employment

Law specialist at a significantly

reduced fee rate.

Holmes & Hills’ Employment Law

specialist, David Dixey, will undertake

a diagnostic review of your

employment contracts and policy

documents to assess the extent to

which they meet the needs of your

business and protect your position as

an employer against potential

Employment Tribunal Claims. Should

these documents only require minor

amendments in order to provide you

with the necessary protection, you

will be advised of these. The fixed

cost for this service is £199 +VAT.

Advice on & drafting of new contracts &

policies

Employment Law advice line

Review of existing contracts & policies

Employment Law advice & representation

Holmes & Hills Solicitors provides employers with a full

range of specialist legal services, assisting them in

protecting their position and avoiding potentially costly

legal disputes with employees or workers. Holmes & Hills

offers employers and HR managers three core services,

these are detailed below.

As well as providing advice and services to protect your legal

position and avoid costly disputes, Holmes & Hills is able to

advise and represent you where contentious matters do arise

between the business and workers or employees.

Holmes & Hills Solicitors’ full range of employment services

cover:

Employment tribunals

Discipline procedure

Dismissal

Settlement Agreements

Redundancy

Breach of contract and other disputes

Discrimination claims

TUPE - employment aspects of business acquisition and

disposal

Employment rights

Retirement

Contentious Employment Law advice (disputes)

Holmes & Hills

£199 +VAT

Where your business requires new

contracts or employment policy

documents to be produced, because

you do not currently have these or

because they do not provide

adequate protection to you the

employer, Holmes & Hills’

Employment Law specialist will advise

on and draft new employment

contracts and a new Employee

Handbook (setting out employment

practices and procedures). You will

receive a new bespoke employment

contract and employee handbook for

£499 +VAT.

£499 +VAT Free Initial Advice

Get advice today:

Call David Dixey on 01376 320456 and get the

legal advice you need to protect your interests.

David Dixey

Holmes & Hills Solicitors

Compliance CSS is a leading provider of services that assist employers in ensuring they remain compliant with a wide range of legislation. CSS offer audits and advice covering:

Services include undertaking a thorough audit of

compliance with the Health & Safety (First-Aid) Regulations

1981 with assistance with the assessment of needs, record

checking and examination of first-aid materials, equipment

and facilities.

Services include carrying out an audit of compliance with

the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 including

examination of the premises and relevant documents to

ascertain how the premises are being managed according

to fire safety. This includes examination of fire risk

assessments, action plans, emergency plans, protective

measures, fire drills and training and evidence of testing of

fire equipment.

Provision of annual and ad hoc Health & Safety Audits to

ensure compliance with legislative requirements including

review of Health & Safety systems, identification of staff

training needs, risk assessment of key workplace hazards,

effectiveness of existing management control measures

and recommendations for improvement.

Provision of a thorough Food Safety Audit to alert

businesses to what they need to do to comply with food

hygiene regulations and so avoid costly legal action being

taken against them. This will include inspection of a

business’s food premises and ascertaining if their HACCP

plan (Food Safety Management System) is working.

Available for catering, retail and manufacturing premises.

First-Aid

Fire Safety

Food Safety

Annual Health & Safety Audit