Employee Relations & HR Operations · UK

Employee relations and HR operations, handled properly.

Access HR supports agencies and scaling businesses with complex employee relations cases, contracts, HR policies and HR systems: the foundations underneath your HR strategy, handled expertly from the start.

Definition

What is employee relations?

Employee relations covers how a business manages its relationship with its people, including grievances, disciplinaries, absence, performance issues and disputes. HR operations are the contracts, policies, processes and systems underneath.

When to get support
01
A complex grievance or disciplinary has landed on your desk.
02
Contracts and your employee handbook are out of date.
03
Long-term absence isn't being managed.
04
Nobody has planned for the 2026–27 UK employment law changes.
What we deliver

The HR foundations, done right.

01

ER case support

Expert advice and case management on grievances, disciplinaries and disputes.

02

Contracts and policies

Employment contracts, HR policies and employee handbooks kept current.

03

HR systems

HR software, people data and processes that scale.

04

Legal access

Access to employment lawyers included as standard.

FAQs

Employee relations, answered.

Do you handle disciplinaries and grievances?

Yes. We advise on and manage employee relations cases end to end, or support your managers and HR team to run them properly.

Do you write HR policies and employee handbooks?

Yes. We write and update contracts, HR policies and handbooks that fit how your business actually works.

Is employment law advice included?

Access to our employment lawyers is included as standard in our retained services. Settlement agreements are charged separately.

Next step

Get the foundations right, then build on them.

Delivered through fractional HR or as support for in-house HR teams.