Personality clashes, racial tensions, and disagreements over working conditions can all lead to an unhappy workforce. An unhappy workforce is less productive and eats away management time and company resources. Too often the only solution employers think they have is between disciplining or dismissing the difficult individuals.
A valuable third option is to resolve disputes or differences without commencing formal procedures. This can provide real benefits from a costs perspective and can usually solve the matter far more quickly than a prolonged procedure and the resulting (normally inevitable) tribunal action.
Defending a tribunal action is costly, timely and can have a devastating impact upon the other employees involved.
Mediation can provide a structured, effective means of avoiding Employment Tribunals. Using Lloyds Law to guide negotiations can often help to defuse difficult situations and hopefully put both parties on a road where hey will be able to work positively and productively with each other in the future. Where this isn’t possible Lloyds Law can provide for a compromised exit that will protect your business from tribunal action and that will also achieve benefits that a tribunal cannot order. References can be quite important to an exiting employee, and confidentiality agreements and restrictive covenants may be relevant to protect your business.
Another great cost for employers is losing good staff. Many good staff leave because they consider that their grievance has not been satisfactorily resolved, because they do not want to be seen as a troublemaker by raising issues or because they believe their employer will not do anything to resolve their concern.
Bringing in Lloyds Law to act as an intelligent guide to the negotiation process can be an effective means of resolving dispute and may help you retain your member of staff.
Lloyds Law can provide mediation that is cost effective, discreet and provides certainty to the parties. We have lawyers and HR specialists who are trained in mediation techniques and who will work with you and your staff to resolve working matters.
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