HR & EMPLOYMENT LAW
Harrington Raine provides employer-side HR and Employment Law support to UK businesses. We help you understand the legal and commercial position, recommend the quickest defensible route, and prepare the documentation needed to act.
Queries received before 3pm UK time on a working day receive a response that working day.
EMPLOYER SUPPORT
A manager wants to act. An employee raises a complaint. Absence becomes unsustainable. A restructure cannot wait. Harrington Raine helps employers understand what can be done, what the real risk is and how to move forward.
When standards slip, we help you decide what needs to happen next — including performance management, capability, misconduct, disciplinary action and sickness absence.
When an employee raises a concern, we help you investigate properly, assess the legal and people risk, and move the matter towards a clear outcome.
Where the business needs to change, we help structure the process around the commercial objective — including restructures, redundancies, changes to terms and TUPE where relevant.
We advise on difficult exits, senior employee issues, settlement discussions, discrimination risk and situations that may create Employment Tribunal exposure.
We help employers put the right foundations in place and deal with everyday HR requirements, including contracts of employment, employee handbooks, policies and procedures, family leave and flexible working.
Most workplace issues are not solved by knowing the procedure alone. Employers need to understand what the rules require, where the real risk sits and what they should actually do.
How the matter should be handled: the sequence, meetings, investigation, consultation, documentation and communication needed to keep the process structured.
What the position means in practice: where the legal exposure sits, how strong the employer’s position is, which risks genuinely matter and which options are realistically available.
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Harrington Raine brings the two together. We recommend a practical, defensible route that reflects the legal position and your commercial objective — then help you put it into action.
HOW THE ADVICE WORKS
When you ask Harrington Raine for advice, the aim is not simply to explain the law. We establish what you are trying to achieve, assess the real risk and give you a clear route forward.
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Tell us what has happened and what you need to achieve. We look at the wider business context, not just the immediate HR process.
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We consider the legal, procedural, commercial and people risks — including which risks genuinely matter and where the employer’s position is strong or exposed.
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Where a clear recommendation can be made, we make it. You should understand the options, know what Harrington Raine recommends and why.
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Where documentation falls within the service, we prepare the letters, scripts, correspondence, meeting materials and process documents needed to put the advice into practice.
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YOUR ADVISORY TEAM
Every retained client has a named Primary Advisor who gets to know the business, understands the wider context and owns the overall relationship.
That continuity does not mean every query has to wait for one person.
Complex, strategically important or higher-risk matters can benefit from detailed knowledge of your business and its history. Your Primary Advisor remains responsible for that continuity and can lead or support those matters where appropriate.
Straightforward matters can be handled by an appropriately experienced member of the wider Harrington Raine team. That means routine questions do not need to wait unnecessarily, while the overall relationship remains clearly owned.
Queries received before 3pm UK time on a working day receive a response that working day. Straightforward matters may receive substantive advice immediately. Where a matter requires further analysis, we will identify what is needed and confirm the next steps and expected timescale.
Some employers have an established HR function. In others, people decisions sit with the Managing Director, Finance, Operations or Office Manager.
Harrington Raine works with whoever is responsible for the decision — providing the HR process, Employment Law judgement and practical support needed to move it forward.
You do not need an internal HR team to manage employee matters properly. Our outsourced HR support helps the person responsible understand the position, decide what to do and handle the process with the right documentation behind them.
Harrington Raine can work alongside your internal HR function where additional Employment Law judgement or support on more difficult matters is needed — while keeping the commercial objective at the centre of the advice.
HIGHER-RISK MATTERS
Some employee issues can be handled quickly and routinely. Others develop into decisions with greater legal, financial or operational consequences.
Harrington Raine identifies when a matter needs a different level of attention, brings in the appropriate expertise and helps you understand how strong the employer’s position really is.
Dismissals, discrimination concerns, senior employee issues, restructures and other sensitive matters may require closer analysis, greater continuity and more experienced judgement.
If a workplace issue creates a genuine risk of an Employment Tribunal claim, the advice should take account of that from the outset — without allowing fear of a possible claim to dictate every decision.
Harrington Raine helps you assess the strength of the employer’s position, understand the available options and determine the appropriate response. Where representation is included within the relevant service, we can continue supporting the matter through the Employment Tribunal process.
A defensible position should be supported properly. Settlement can be the right commercial decision, but it should be a strategy — not a reflex. We assess the strength of the case and advise accordingly.
ONGOING SUPPORT
Harrington Raine provides ongoing employer support through two core HR & Employment Law packages. Both include the day-to-day advice, clear recommendations and practical drafting that sit at the heart of the service.
Ongoing HR & Employment Law advice for employers who want fast answers, a recommended route and the documentation needed to act.
Best suited to: businesses that want comprehensive day-to-day advisory support and prefer to deal with Employment Tribunal representation separately if a claim arises.
Everything included within Outcome Support, with Employment Tribunal representation included if a claim arises, subject to the applicable service terms.
Best suited to: businesses that want ongoing advice and drafting with the additional certainty of Tribunal representation built into the service.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Straight answers to some of the practical questions businesses ask about Harrington Raine’s HR & Employment Law service.
Harrington Raine provides employer-side HR and Employment Law support. We advise UK businesses and the people responsible for making employment decisions on their behalf.
Yes. Harrington Raine can work alongside an existing HR function where additional Employment Law judgement, capacity or support on more difficult matters is needed. We also support businesses where HR responsibility sits with the owner, Managing Director or another senior manager.
Where documentation falls within the service, yes. Harrington Raine can prepare the letters, scripts, correspondence, meeting materials, policies and process documents needed to put the advice into action.
Not necessarily. Your Primary Advisor owns the overall relationship and provides continuity where it adds value. Straightforward matters may be handled by another appropriately experienced member of the Harrington Raine team so support is not unnecessarily delayed.
Queries received before 3pm UK time on a working day receive a response that working day. Straightforward matters may receive substantive advice immediately. More complex matters may require further information or analysis, in which case we will identify what is needed and confirm the next steps and expected timescale.
Yes. Harrington Raine supports employers with complex and sensitive matters including difficult dismissals, discrimination concerns, restructures, senior employee issues and situations that may create Employment Tribunal risk. The level of support and any representation available will depend on the relevant service and applicable terms.
Outcome Support provides ongoing HR & Employment Law advice, recommendations and practical drafting. Total Employment Law Cover includes Outcome Support together with Employment Tribunal representation if a claim arises, subject to the applicable service terms.
A standard HR helpline may focus primarily on process or explaining what the rules say. Harrington Raine starts with what the employer is trying to achieve, assesses the legal and commercial position, recommends a defensible route and, where included, prepares the documentation needed to act.
Harrington Raine supports UK employers at different stages of growth, from businesses without an internal HR function to larger organisations with established HR teams. The right support depends on your business, the issues you are dealing with and the level of HR & Employment Law capability you need.
Yes. Support can range from everyday HR matters such as contracts, policies, absence, performance and employee relations through to more complex issues including dismissals, restructures, discrimination concerns and potential Employment Tribunal risk.
Tell us what you are dealing with. We’ll help you understand the position, what we recommend and what happens next.
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