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Business immigration
Immigration law is complex and constantly changing. It is often difficult and time-consuming for employers and HR professionals to keep up to date and to navigate detailed, overlapping rules and procedural requirements.
Our immigration solicitors advise employers across many sectors including FTSE 100 companies, multinational organisations, educational establishments, hospitality, retail, NHS bodies, entrepreneurs, and technology start-ups.
All our immigration experts are employment lawyers, and will advise between any immigration and employment law matter seamlessly.
Protecting your business
Breaching sponsor duties or immigration rules can lead to serious financial, operational, and reputational risks. Ultimately, sanctions can include revocation of your sponsor licence by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI), and civil and criminal penalties. Getting it right is vital and seeking expert help has never been more important.
Business immigration and mobility: Our expertise
Our leading business immigration solicitors will help your business prepare so you are confident and fully compliant with all matters relating to people management and immigration.
We deliver clear, practical advice tailored to your needs and objectives, and can advise on every aspect of business immigration, including:
- Right to work checks
- Applying for a sponsor licence
- Compliance and advice on sponsorship duties
- Sponsorship of skilled workers (formerly Tier 2 and Tier 5)
- Preventing illegal working and challenging civil penalties
- Intra-company visas
- Applying for visas
- Business visitors
- Global Talent, Innovator and Start-Up visas.
Immigration training
Being able to recruit from overseas is a business-critical issue for many employers who need to ensure their workforce has the necessary skills, experience and depth of resource and talent.
While the post-Brexit points-based immigration system (PBS) for skilled workers, which applies to EU citizens coming to the UK to work, is now well established, many businesses are still grappling with the challenges and changes.
To complement our clear, practical advice, we also provide training at every level to ensure your staff are confident, compliant, and fully understand the new immigration rules.
Personal immigration services
Our leading immigration solicitors support businesses and clients in relation to immigration requirements on an individual basis too.
If your business wishes to support an employee’s family member, dependent, or spouse with a visa, we can help.
Bolt-on this service
We are pleased to offer new or existing HR Rely users the opportunity to ‘bolt-on’ Business Immigration services to a core HR Rely advice and support package, at a highly competitive cost.
HR Rely clients can access these services at a significantly discounted hourly rate or, if preferred, purchase a block of 5, 10, or 15 hours of specialist investigation time at a cost-effective fixed price.
Alternatively, we are happy to provide a bespoke quote for any stand-alone Business Immigration application or related project you may have in mind.
To talk through your organisation’s the available options, please contact Ingrid McGhee (Ingrid McGhee@weightmans.com) or 0141 404 9300 or speak to your usual HR Rely advisor.
Investigations
Carrying out investigations can be very time consuming and a serious drain on management time or HR capacity.
While we can of course support your managers to carry out investigations themselves as part of our core HR Rely offering, this may not always be your preferred way forward.
There will be occasions where time-constraints, the sensitivity of the issues at stake, or your organisation’s internal dynamics will make it more transparent and cost-effective for Weightmans to take the lead and carry out an investigation on your behalf.
Our expertise
Weightmans has extensive experience of handling HR investigations for every type of organisation, from large manufacturing, retail and service industry businesses to the public sector, where we have specialist expertise in working with local authorities, and education and healthcare clients. We have an impressive track record of handling sensitive and complex HR investigations, including situations attracting high levels of media interest.
Our investigations service
Weightmans investigations are carried out by experienced legal and HR professionals, who will provide:
- Efficient and impartial fact-finding investigations in respect of any disciplinary issue, capability issue, grievance, or bullying/harassment complaint.
- Sensitive and discreet employee interviews causing minimal operational disruption
- Clear and comprehensive investigation reports
- Guidance and recommendations as to possible next steps
- Management learning points, where relevant, to prevent recurrence of any problems
Why engage an external investigator?
Engaging an external investigator presents numerous advantages over conducting the process in-house, especially where complex or multiple allegations are involved. Our external Investigations service will help you:
- Save valuable management time and cost
- Progress issues promptly and effectively (avoiding any problems caused by delay)
- Demonstrate commitment to fairness and transparency when employee relations issues arise.
- Ensure impartiality and where allegations are made against senior staff
- Maintain confidentiality and control the spread of information around your organisation
- Safeguard your organisation against future claims; our investigators are fully familiar with the standard of investigation an employment tribunal will expect.
Bolt-on this service
We are pleased to offer new or existing HR Rely users the opportunity to ‘bolt-on’ Investigation services to a core HR Rely advice and support package, at a highly competitive cost.
HR Rely clients can access these services at a significantly discounted hourly rate or, if preferred, purchase a block of 5, 10, or 15 hours of specialist investigation time at a cost-effective fixed price.
Alternatively, we are happy to provide a bespoke quote for any stand-alone investigation or related project you may have in mind.
To talk through your organisation’s the available options, please contact Andrew Forrest (andrew.forrest@weightmans.com) or 0121 200 8112 or speak to your usual HR Rely advisor.
Training
While access to prompt, accurate and practical legal advice is the heart of our HR Rely offering, we are also passionately committed to support our clients to educate and upskill their workforces to prevent problems arising.
Whether you have identified a workplace problem, and are keen to prevent recurrence, or are looking to fill any knowledge gaps and enhance your employees’ professional development, our experienced HR Rely team can provide engaging, comprehensive training to meet your business needs.
Training can be delivered ‘in-person’ or remotely, to a select group of staff, or to your whole management population. From getting new starters up to speed on the legal basics, through to detailed technical briefings for HR professionals, our HR Rely team can put together a cost-effective, time-effective programme of training to fit the bill.
Our training sessions
Our team of experienced presenters can train your people on any aspect of employment law or HR practice. Our most popular sessions include:
- Employment law legislation and case-law updates
- Recruitment and selection
- Disciplinary and grievance issues
- Managing ‘problem’ employees (including unauthorised absence and criminal conduct outside work)
- Managing long and short-term sickness absence
- Equality at work and avoiding discrimination
- Flexible and family-friendly working
- TUPE, business transfers and outsourcing
- Managing redundancy and work-place restructure
- Managing workplace change (including changing terms and conditions)
- Industrial relations issues and collective consultation
- Working time, breaks and holidays.
New manager training
Whether you are looking to bring a new cohort of line managers quickly up to speed or want to have easy-to-access resources on standby to upskill new managers on an ongoing basis, Weightmans New Manager Training webinar programme offers a time-effective and cost-effective solution. Our suite of six core, pre-recorded webinars cover all the essential skills a new people-manager needs, including managing performance and sickness absence, and handling disciplinary and grievance investigations. Your managers can train at their own pace, at a time that suits them with minimal disruption to your operation.
An accessible approach
Our priority is always to ensure that our training leaves employees feeling confident and empowered. We will take time to discuss your training needs in advance, to make sure that briefings are pitched at exactly the right level and tackle any specific existing concerns. Our experienced trainers encourage participants to interact and share experiences, and always create space for delegates to ask questions, big or small.
Our relaxed and jargon-free delivery creates the best possible environment for learning and development, adding real value to your organisation and supporting your staff in their day-to-day roles.
Bolt-on this service
We are pleased to offer new or existing HR Rely users the opportunity to ‘bolt-on’ employment and HR training services to a core HR Rely advice and support package, at a highly competitive cost.
HR Rely clients can access these services at a significantly discounted hourly rate or, if preferred, purchase a block of 5, 10, or 15 hours of training time at a cost-effective fixed price.
Alternatively, we are happy to provide a bespoke quote for any stand-alone training session, course of training, or related project you may have in mind.
To talk through your organisation’s the available options, please contact Andrew Forrest (andrew.forrest@weightmans.com) or 0121 200 8112 or speak to your usual HR Rely advisor.
Anti-bribery and corruption services
The business world has never been more highly regulated and commercially challenging. Ensuring that companies and those who run them are compliant can be complex. Weightmans business and financial crime team is dedicated to providing the best advice on all aspects of corporate crime, such as bribery and corruption.
Training
Weightmans can offer bespoke face to face and online training packages to your staff, covering the scope of anti-bribery and corruption legislation, the consequences of being suspected of committing an offence of bribery and the correct policies and procedures to put in place to reduce risk to your organisation. The team has provided anti bribery training to organisations across many different sectors including leading UK universities and multi-national restaurant chains.
Audit and review
Weightmans team can advise on the application of UK anti bribery legislation to commercial transactions, particularly those involving organisations and corporate entities located in overseas jurisdictions deemed to be high risk.
Bespoke risk assessment services
Weightmans can help risk assess any situation, process, or activity, reviewing standard documents. The team can identify any internal issues and highlight any potential criminal or regulatory exposure to your organisation. Our focus is on helping clients design and maintain safe systems of work to avoid litigation or external investigations.
Crisis management
In the event of a serious unexpected event or incident, such as a ‘dawn raid’ or investigation by the Serious Fraud Office or FCA, Weightmans can provide emergency support and the very best advice and representation throughout the investigation stage when it is needed most. We can help you to minimise reputational damage and take steps to prevent recurrence.
Weightmans has experience of dealing with all types of criminal and regulatory investigations and court proceedings for every type of organisation. Our team has successfully handled many investigations and prosecutions involving multiple complex issues and national media interest.
Bolt-on this service
We are pleased to offer new or existing HR Rely users the opportunity to ‘bolt-on’ Anti-Bribery and Corruption services to a core HR Rely advice and support package, at a highly competitive cost.
HR Rely clients can access these services at a significantly discounted hourly rate or, if preferred, purchase a block of 5, 10, or 15 hours of specialist advice at a cost-effective fixed price.
Alternatively, we are happy to provide a bespoke quote for any stand-alone Anti-Bribery and Corruption project or course of training you may have in mind.
To talk through your organisation’s the available options, please contact Michael Balmer (michael.balmer@weightmans.com or 0161 233 1285 or speak to your usual HR Rely advisor.