Employment/worker/freelancer laws and regulations: 

Assess compliance with UK employment laws, including equal opportunities, holiday pay, time off from work, whistleblowing

Documentation and recordkeeping: 

It is crucial to maintain complete, accurate, and current HR records, including employment contracts, service agreements, right to work verifications, pre-engagement screenings like DBS, safer recruitment practices, personnel files, training documentation, and driving for work records. 

These should encompass pertinent clauses such as confidentiality, restrictive covenants, and other related provisions.

Policies and procedures: 

Review HR policies, procedures, and handbooks to ensure they comply with legal mandates, ACAS Codes of Practice, and any specific industry or sector requirements. 

Make certain that these policies are readily accessible and communicated effectively to all workers, freelancers, employees, and volunteers.

Data privacy and security: 

Review data protection practices to guarantee adherence to pertinent legislation, like GDPR, and to ensure the protection of personal and sensitive information of employees, workers, freelancers, and volunteers, including data retention schedules.

Diversity and inclusion: 

Assess your diversity and inclusion initiatives, encompassing equitable compensation and anti-discrimination policies.

Training and education: 

Evaluate the efficacy of compliance training programs for employees, workers, freelancers, and volunteers, encompassing anti-discrimination, harassment prevention, and workplace health and safety.

Classifications: 

Review and ensure proper classification of people as employees, workers, self-employed contractors, or consultants and distinguishing between employees and independent contractors, volunteer management and associated policies/practices, directors, non-executive directors.

Safety and health: 

Ensure compliance with Health & Safety at Work regulations, adhere to workplace safety policies, and provide safety training for employees, workers, freelancers, and volunteers where applicable.

Worker/employee/freelancer/board pay: 

Assess your compliance with minimum wage and other HMRC legislation, pensions auto enrolment duties etc.

Review of freelancer agreements/contracts for services/executive & non-executive director remuneration

Performance management:

Performance management practices & feedback

Pay, benefits & reward: 

Review of pay structure & employee/worker/freelancer/executive & non-executive director benefits and reward practices

Learning & development: 

Review leadership & management capability, practices in place for board development/statutory training, workforce development.

Wellbeing: 

Managing employee/worker/freelancer/volunteer absence and sickness, employee health & wellbeing

Engagement: 

Assess practices for employee/worker/freelancer/volunteer engagement

Recruitment & selection: 

Review of role descriptions, recruitment practices etc. for employees/workers/freelancers/executive & non-executive directors.

Onboarding:

Including new starters process, new starter training plans, probationary period process and reviews (includes employees/workers/freelancers/board members)