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CFR HR is a fully outsourced solution that provides businesses with expert HR consultancy and employment law support.

Does your business comply with all current employment legislation?

Do you need support with drafting employment contracts, employment policies and the training to put legislation into practice?

Do you want to avoid disputes and minimise the risk of Employment Tribunal claims?

Taking care of HR and employment law issues can be time consuming for any organisation, large or small.

Our HR consultancy solution and employment law service, CFR HR, keeps you legally compliant. CFR HR helps you to manage any employee issues within the boundaries of the law and minimise your risk of an Employment Tribunal claim.

Based in Belfast, our HR consultancy experts work for businesses across the UK and Ireland that don’t have the budget for an in-house HR department. We also act as an extension of the team to assist larger organisations’ HR functions when support is needed to deal with more complex employment law matters.

What does our HR consultancy solution cost?

By combining the quality of a traditional law firm with the cost certainty of fixed fees, CFR HR gives you exceptional HR consultancy support with better budget control

CFR HR provides a fully outsourced HR consultancy solution based on simple, fixed, annual fee.

Staff Numbers	Cost per year (£) (exc VAT)*
1-5	1250
6-10	1660
11-25	2250
26-49	3300
51 & Above	Quote available on request

*subject to change and annual review

What is included in an annual HR consultancy fee?

As a CFR HR client, we will ensure your HR and employment law essentials are in place. With an annual HR consultancy contract, you will receive:

Your own team of dedicated HR consultancy experts providing direct commercial legal advice on all your HR and employment law queries.
A HR Audit or Health check of existing arrangements, documentation and procedures to provide accurate advice and an action plan of potential improvements in the next 12 months.
Development of documentation: contract of employment template, a company handbook, custom policies and any other legal documents you need.
Development of processes: appraisal programmes and performance management.
Guidance to ensure you deal with disciplinary, grievance, absence management and TUPE processes effectively, in line with legislative and best practice requirements.
HR & Employment Law Helpline, a telephone advisory service with a guaranteed response from a member of our experienced HR consultancy team within 24 hours.
Quarterly newsletter updates covering employment law, data protection and other legal areas.
Bespoke HR and employment law training.
Workplace mediation.
Consultations: assisting with consultations regarding changing contract of employment and / or redeployment of employees to alternative roles, as well as TUPE relating to both business acquisitions and service provision changes.

Optional HR consultancy extras

Outside of our standard HR consultancy package, for an additional cost we also provide a wider range of employee consultancy services:

Tribunal Insurance: Employment Protection Scheme offers Tribunal insurance, giving you and your business reassurance that if you are taken to an Employment Tribunal, your legal costs are covered.
An e-learning solution to support your business with delivering mandatory or corporate training to your team. We have several fantastic eLearning courses available through an online Learning Management System.
Access to other expert legal advice on the full range of commercial law issues such as business immigration, corporate, planning, real estate and procurement. Please review our full legal service offering here.
Bespoke training (from recruitment to redundancy and everything In between)
Reward and succession planning
Design and implementation of new policies and procedures

“Michael and his team have been invaluable in the whole area of Human Resources. We have been expanding our franchise network, building our business and with that comes increased challenges in managing a growing workforce day-to-day. The team at Cleaver Fulton Rankin has helped us navigate every element of our HR requirements and to know that there is an expert at the end of the phone is very reassuring.”
Scott Higginson, Four Star Pizza
“Cleaver Fulton Rankin have been legal advisors to Cancer Focus NI since our founding in 1969 and throughout that period, we have benefitted from their advice and expertise in matters of charity and company law, reputational risk, property law, human resources and employment law. The team is extremely well informed and we have found them unfailingly responsive to enquiries. Above all, we have confidence that when we approach the team their advice will always be in the very best interests of our charity.”
Roisin Foster, Chief Executive of Cancer Focus Northern Ireland
As a CFR HR client, we have found the team to be extremely supportive and helpful. They are always quick to respond and are pragmatic when giving advice and guidance. We would be happy to recommend the CFR HR service.”
Debbie Eve, Director of People, Artemis Technologies

Want to find out more about our HR consultancy solution?

We offer a variety of services to suit your business HR and employment law needs.

Whether you are looking for on-going support via an annual contract, help with a one-off project or simply an expert external opinion, we offer a variety of services to suit your needs.

If you are interested in discussing our HR consultancy solution further, please contact us or complete the form. We would welcome discussing all options with you.