From time to time, I review “Free Offers” on websites and comment here on their content and quality. The word “Free” can be a slippery one with all sorts of elephant traps and cul de sacs awaiting the unwary!

However, I have just seen a range of free offers from the Roots HR Community Interest Company. And their free resources are remarkably good, written in plain language, jargon free and with just the right economy of words!

Roots HR are a UK specialist consultancy for human resources working for  the social sector.

They are offering stacks of free UK  Employment Toolkits and Fact Sheets  for anyone either engaged in Human Resources or just interested  in  various workplace rights and responsibilities.

Their website says they  “enable organisations to continually improve performance and sustainability through better people management, whilst ensuring an understanding of and compliance with employment legislation”. A link to their website is at the end of this post.

All the free materials  are nicely set out with useful links and signposts. The Roots website also enables you to access their blogs ,employment law bulletins and a prerecorded library of webinars.

There is also an offer of a one-hour free HR  consultancy for social sector organisations. To qualify for this, the eligibility criteria says to qualify, organisations must: i) be established as a bona fide social sector organisation in the UK (e.g., a charity, community organisation, co-operative, social enterprise or an infrastructure organisation supporting the sector) AND ii) be currently delivering services or trading OR iii) be preparing to deliver services or trade.

Roots HR  Employment Toolkit titles include:

·         Recruitment

·         Selection

·         Pre-Employment Checks

·         Induction

·         Probation

·         Agile Appraisal

·         Wellbeing at Work

·         Pay and Benefits

·         Personnel Files

·         Managing Leavers

·         Managing Sickness Absence

·         Managing Underperformance

 

Roots HR Fact Sheets include:-

 

·         Agile Performance Management and Appraisal

·         Bullying and harassment

·         Checking the right to work in the UK

·         Data Protection and HR

·         Dispute Resolution

·         Employee Engagement

·         Employee Satisfaction Surveys

·         Handling requests for flexible working

·         How to Manage Employee Absence

·         Improving Employee Wellbeing

·         Investigations

·         Managing volunteers

·         Mediation

·         Minimum redundancy process

·         Personnel filing

·         Redundancy selection

·         Retention of personnel records

·         Right to be accompanied

·         Setting objectives

·         Shared parental leave

·         Staff survey guidelines

·         Starting to employ

·         Starting to grow

·         Statutory redundancy payments

·         Successful induction and probation

·         Terms and conditions of employment

·         What is TUPE

·         TUPE and staff representatives

 

A credit all the authors and publication organisers  involved in their production!

You complete the HR  Roots  form and are asked to note that their toolkits are sent individually via email e.g. if you request 2 toolkits, you will receive 2 emails, each containing a different toolkit. Please allow up to 24 hours for your toolkits to be sent. All the applications and forms you complete are covered by the Roots HR Data Protection and Privacy policies which in turn are signposted on their website. See below:-

 

https://www.rootshr.org.uk/free-resources