When businesses have to down-size or restructure, there
are important legal duties for employers relating to changes
in their workforce or conditions. At a time of
financial pressure, many companies, and SMEs in particular,
can find it difficult to meet their statutory employment
requirement. We are often asked for assistance and
Mary Leishman describes how we use and adapt a leading UK
legal advisory subscription service to create a cost
effective HR function for businesses.
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article
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Making the Most of Word and Excel
Our regular "tricks and tips" features offers practical
advice on using Word more efficiently to create great
documents and creating, formatting and navigating Excel
spreadsheet workbooks.
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Recent Successes
Since our last edition of the e-zine, we've been busy
working with some new clients and returning to work with
some old clients. Working on behalf of
Highlands and Islands Enterprise, we undertook an
IT governance review at Maclean Electrical, one of the UK's
largest distributors of electrical components to the energy
and public highways sectors. Subsequently, we've been
commissioned to provide much more support to the company.
Elmwood College in Fife invited our head of
Public Sector Consulting to assist them in their strategic
planning round. We have undertaken IT reviews at
CJ Lang in Dundee and assisted the auditors
of DC Thomson & Co Limited in a
post-implementation review of the company's new ERP system.
We were delighted when Creative Scotland asked us back to
help them in the next stages of planning for the merger of
Scottish Arts Council and Scottish
Screen. We've also had some success in
getting on to public sector procurement framework contracts
over the last few months.
Our Associates
Since our last edition, we are delighted to have
Stephen McCafferty join us from Standard Life where
he was HR Director for a number of years.
We are always interested in developing our pool of
consultants and, if you think you might be interested in
joining us, please give Ralph Leishman a call on 0131 668
2112 or drop him an email at
Ralph.Leishman@4-consulting.com.
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