Legal support services included in your NHBF membership
NHBF membership includes free essential business support through WorkNest, including access to their 24/7 Employment Law and Health & Safety advice lines, where you can talk through any queries or concerns with their expert team.
How can WorkNest support your business?
Their advice covers a wide variety of subject matters, from performance management and unfair dismissal to the National Minimum Wage and maternity and paternity leave.
This includes support with essential documentation, including contracts, handbooks and policies.
They’re here to assist you with:
| Employment Law matters, including:
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Health & Safety compliance, including:
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No issue is too big or too small. In fact, by contacting them sooner, they’ll be in a stronger position to help.
The support doesn’t stop there – Members also have access to a huge range of helpful content via WorkNests resources page, a bank of useful documents through your NHBF portal, and regular webinars covering a spectrum of topical Employment Law, HR and Health & Safety topics.
Need that little extra support without being tied down?
Take a look at our NHBF+ offer: WorkNest One2One
Flexible support options:
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On-demand expert assistance - Access specialised help when your business needs it
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No long-term commitments - Get professional support without monthly contracts
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Project-based assistance - Address specific challenges without ongoing obligations
Available services include:
| ✓ Risk assessments |
| ✓ Custom policy development |
| ✓ Specialised HR document creation |
| ✓ Targeted compliance reviews |
| ✓ Specific employee relations guidance |
Extra Member benefits to protect and support your business
In addition to the free Employment Law and Health & Safety support Members also benefit from:
| ✓ Free commercial legal helpline – telephone support service on matter such as commercial contracts, consumer rights, civil procedures, data protection, 24/7, 365 days a year. |
| ✓ Up to £50,000* legal cover for employment tribunal and court costs (not available to solo Members). |
| ✓ Up to £50,000* legal cover for HMRC tax, VAT and PAYE investigations. |
| ✓ Restrictive covenant enforcement advice and support to protect your business when someone leaves (additional fees may apply). |
* You pay the first £2000 (excess).
The free Employment Law support does not apply to Solo Members.
Solo membership includes all of the above except the 24/7 HR legal helpline, employment contracts and insurance cover for HR disputes.
The Employment and Commercial legal helplines operate an ‘out-of-hours’ service for emergency support. During weekends and bank holidays a call back service will operate. Members can login in the Member portal for more information regarding the helplines operating hours and SLA’s.