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MEMBER AND INDUSTRY SUPPORT
CONSULTANCY
Expert Consultancy for Labour Providers
Support your compliance and due diligence journey with direct assistance from our expert consultants.
Each ALP approved consultant has years of senior level experience as either a labour provider or a labour user and is fully conversant and up to date with relevant legislative and ethical standards.
From simple document reviews and confidential consultative audits, through to strategy and policy development, our consultants help you to get it right and keep it right. All consultancy work is completely confidential. If you have a specific project in mind, please see our list of fixed price consultancy tasks below, or if you prefer flexibility, book a set period of exclusive time with one of our consultants. Consultancy fees are priced for remote support. If you prefer us to visit, travel costs will apply.
Example Tasks Deliverables
Document Review
Fast and thorough reviews of your existing operational documents such as policies, procedures, worker contracts, KIDs, handbooks, assignment details or Modern Slavery Statements. We will check that they are compliant with legislation and suggest both necessary and recommended improvements.
Terms of Business/ Contract Review
Service Level Agreements
A comprehensive review of your contracts against the ALP templates, to ensure they meet legislative standards, cover all eventualities and properly protect your business. Applicable to either standard Terms of Business or bespoke contract agreements.
Define and record the specific services and service levels agreed with your client with a bespoke Service Level Agreement. Modelled on the ALP Template, the document includes KPIs, review and escalation processes and supports effective management of your client relationships.
Health and Safety Checklist
Ensure appropriate risk management, co-operation and assignment and agreement of responsibilities to better protect the health and safety of agency workers and comply with legislation and GLAA licensing. Our consultant will work with your client to complete the ALP Client Health and Safety Checklist and will highlight any areas of concern.
Holiday Pay Non/incorrect payment of holiday pay is regularly identified during GLAA inspections. Our consultant will check through your processes and help you to ensure that holiday is accrued, calculated, and paid correctly and that your workers are able to take all the holiday they are entitled to.
Contact us for a quote. Call 01276 509306 or email info@labourproviders.org.uk for more information.
From £250 + IPT per yearSave time, money and worry with specialist legal expenses insurance for food growers, producers, labour Other insurance services available: Albion Legal can also help you protect your business with the following:
providers and GLAA licence holders. Employers liability Cover against your liability for injury or disease to employees arising out of their employment. Average level of unfair dismissal compensation in 2019/20 was £10,182 – not including legal fees! Public and products liability Insurance where a third party suffers injury or damage through your Average level of age discrimination compensation was nearly £39,000 fault or a worker’s actions. Management time spent on Tribunal claims averages 8 days per case.
Professional indemnity Cover for clients’ losses due to mistakes, negligence or dishonest acts by you or your workers.
Protect your business against unforeseen costs with a monthly or single annual fee covering legal costs, settlement costs and compensation awards for: • Health and safety claims • Discrimination claims • Employment disputes
Directors and officers liability insurance Insurance against negligence, default, breach of duty, breach of trust and criminal proceedings. HMRC tax issues and VAT policy • Employment Tribunals Defence costs against NMW, VAT, PAYE and National Insurance claims. • Loss of GLAA licence and GLAA Appeals • Breach of restrictive covenants, and more!
All legal work will be handled by JMW Solicitors LLP, ALP legal partners and experts in labour provider issues.
ALP legal partners, JMW Solicitors LLP, will undertake your settlement negotiations and
Tribunal representation where a claim arises. Albion Legal’s Employment Disputes Insurance cover is a cost efficient Paul Chamberlain, Simon Bloch and their employment risk management package with team of expert lawyers are well known to ALP a budgeted annual cost. It helps to underpin members who benefit from their clear, concise compliance obligations and provides access and relevant expertise in the legal issues to expert advice.affecting labour providers.
JMW is a full-service law firm providing legal services and advice. JMW will handle all claims on your behalf and its specialist departments are partner-led with the aim of working for clients with clarity and determination.
The ALP is the specialist trade association for labour providers that supply the workforce for the consumer goods supply chain. This includes the food processing, horticultural and wider manufacturing, industrial, warehousing and distribution sectors.
The ALP promotes responsible recruitment and works to ensure that the provision and management of agency and seasonal labour in these sectors is recognised as a model of good practice. ALP members range from small local labour providers to the largest multi-sector suppliers. All companies in the UK labour supply chain are welcomed as Associate Members.
Paul Chamberlain Simon Bloch
Peace of mind with a single competitive monthly/annual fee. Policies specifically designed for ALP members and GLAA sector businesses. A range of expert legal services widely available to all labour providers.
To find out more and discuss your specific business insurance requirements, contact Albion legal now on 0113 247 1717 or by email at enquiries@albionlegal.co.uk
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