This grievance toolkit guides you through the process of formally handling a staff grievance. It contains a how-to guide as well as a pack of template documents you are likely to need. Once you receive a grievance and have appointed someone to handle it, you will need appropriate documents to investigate the grievance and decide an outcome. This toolkit provides these template documents which can

Please note that this toolkit has recently been updated. It can be used for employees whose child is due after 6 April 2024, or whose expected date of adoption placement is on or after 6 April 2024. If your employee's child is due to be born or placed with them before this date, this toolkit will not apply. This paternity toolkit will take you through the key steps to take when a staff member

This TUPE transfer toolkit is everything you need if you are the incoming employer in a TUPE transfer (ie the new employer). It includes all the documents and guidance to take you step by step through a simple TUPE process, ensuring the smooth transfer of employees to your business. The how-to guide gives a handy timeline to follow and the documents in this toolkit include: a due diligence

This toolkit covers everything you need to recruit permanent or fixed-term employees. It takes you from devising the specification for your ideal candidate to making an offer and creating a bespoke employment contract. Documents included in this toolkit are: job description; person specification; staff recruitment privacy notice; letters required to obtain a medical report about a candidate; offer

This toolkit for setting up a company includes all the documentation and guidance you need to start a new company from scratch. It includes 14 documents designed to help you get started and take your first steps with your company, whilst making sure that you comply with the law from day one. The documents include: step-by-step guidance to help you fill in the form to create a new company; handy

This adoption and surrogacy toolkit guides you through the steps you need to take, from when a staff member announces that they are adopting or having a child via surrogacy, to when they return to work after adoption leave. It includes a how-to guide as well as a pack of 14 relevant documents, including template letters and notices to arrange your staff member's adoption leave, time off for

This shared parental leave toolkit guides you through the steps to take if a staff member wishes to take shared parental leave, whether due to their partner giving birth or them adopting a child or having a child via surrogacy. It includes a how-to guide as well as a pack of 15 template documents to cover every situation where an employee wishes to take shared parental leave. By using this shared

This toolkit to start an online business includes all the legal documentation and know-how you need to set up a website and change your business to online sales. It comprises 9 key documents, including: separate cookie and privacy policies, and terms of use for your website; a customisable set of terms and conditions to cover you for the supply or goods or services or both; template invoices (VAT

This toolkit contains all the legal documentation and know-how you need to enter a shareholders' agreement. The toolkit is suitable for existing shareholders entering a shareholders' agreement, or where a new investor is entering the company and a new shareholders' agreement is needed to regulate the relationship between shareholders. It comprises 9 key documents, as well as a how-to guide, all

This flexible working toolkit takes you step-by-step through the process you need to follow if you receive a formal flexible working request from an employee. It contains a handy how-to guide as well as all the documents that you are likely to need. The toolkit includes template documents to cover each stage of the decision-making process, including: a clear flexible working policy for you to

This redundancy toolkit guides you through the key steps you need to take to make an employee redundant, and provides a pack of the relevant template documents you are likely to need. You will find guidance and a pack of 9 supporting documents, including letters, notices and agendas, for each step of the redundancy process: Initial steps (considering alternatives and reasons for redundancies);

This debt collection toolkit contains the documents and guidance you need to strengthen your business's approach to debt collection. It is important to have a clear and consistent process to get payments in. This toolkit will help you to remind and encourage late payers to deal with your bill, and gradually increase the pressure on them if appropriate. The essential documents in this toolkit

This disciplinary toolkit will guide you through the process of handling a disciplinary matter. It includes a how-to guide and a pack of 16 relevant documents you are likely to need. You will find template letters, agendas and other documents which can be used at each key step of the disciplinary process: Investigating the disciplinary matter (including suspension of your staff member if necessary

This data protection policy toolkit provides 8 data protection policy templates you are likely to need to comply with your data protection obligations. It also contains a how-to guide, which tells you how to use each policy. Data protection policies included in this pack can be customised for your business and include: Privacy policy Cookie policy Data protection policy Staff privacy notice Data

This data subject request toolkit guides you through the process of dealing with data subject requests (individuals' requests for access to, changing or deletion of their personal data). This toolkit contains a how-to guide as well as a pack of 22 relevant documents to cover various types of requests. The template documents you will receive in this toolkit include: policies and forms for dealing

This small claims toolkit guides you through the right process to follow if you want to make a straightforward small claim against someone, and contains a pack of all of the template documents you are likely to need. Use the small claims process to get back money you are owed for amounts less than £10,000 (for example, if a supplier has not sent you the right goods or you have not received payment

This toolkit helps you to protect your intellectual property and confidential information, whether you are just starting a new business or you want to ensure you protect your existing business. The toolkit contains a pack of relevant documents, including an NDA template, cease and desist letter and step-by-step guides to registering trade marks and designs in the UK and EU. It also contains a how

This toolkit takes you through the process of entering a collaboration with another business, to work together on a commercial project. When you are collaborating with another business, proper legal contracts will ensure you are both clear about what has been agreed and to provide your business with key legal protections. This will help to make sure your project runs smoothly and may help to avoid

This toolkit contains guidance on the process to follow in order to transfer shares, and copies of all the documents your company will need to properly approve the transfer of shares. The toolkit includes the stock transfer form necessary to make a transfer of shares, company resolutions to approve the transfer, and supporting guidance and documents to give legal effect to a share transfer. The

This TUPE transfer toolkit is everything you need if you are the outgoing employer in a TUPE transfer (ie the old employer). It includes templates of the key legal documents and guidance on how to use them, taking you step-by-step through a straightforward TUPE process, ensuring the smooth transfer of employees from your business. The how-to guide gives a helpful timeline of steps to take and the