Workforce, HR and Employment

This section contains an overview of each of a wide array of topics such as details on recruitment, rights, benefits and other employment issues.

Within each section there is more specific information in each area: including sample templates and forms, useful documents to download and information on where to go next.

Information available includes:

• Human Resources and Employment Practice advice
• Sample HR policies and job descriptions: Request for free via HRBANK
• Workforce Development team at NCVO
• Working for a charity 
• Looking for work in the voluntary sector?
• HR and Employment Practice Publications

Topics

Contracts, Terms and Conditions of Employment
Information on annualised hours, fixed-term and short-term contracts, casual employment and sample contracts for services or consultancy.

Discipline and Grievance
This section includes information on disciplinary procedures and investigations, as well as information on statutory procedures, grievances and much more.

Diversity and Equal Opportunities
Including information on equal opportunities law, disability discrimination and sexual harrassment, as well as an overview of what diversity is and how to manage it effectively.

Employee Rights and Benefits
Including Flexible working arrangements, job-sharing, parental leave and employment tribunals.

Health and Safety
Includes an overview of health and safety laws, practices and systems, as well as a guide to directors' responsibilities for health and safety.

Legal and Regulatory issues
This section includes an overview of the Employment Rights Act 1996, Equal Pay Regulations and many more.

Managing Volunteers
Information on the legal status of volunteers, finding and recruiting volunteers and providing training training volunteers, and more.

Recruitment
Includes legal legislation on recruitment law, guidelines on recruitment and an example policy statement on recruitment.

Remuneration
Information on creating a salary policy, minimum wages for employees, pay statements and National Indsurance, and more.

Termination of Contract
Information on redundancy, wrongful dismissal, resignation and rights upon dismissal.

HR Bank

The HRBANK is a collection of sample human resources policies and job descriptions donated by voluntary and community organisations, which are available for organisations to amend and tailor to their own needs.

Request HRBANK policies and job descriptions here.

What you need to know

The Workforce Development team at NCVO (formerly the UK Workforce Hub) helps third sector organisations make the best of their paid staff, volunteers and trustees through workforce development. The website contains information, resources and signposting alongside case studies, free publications and HR advice and support.

There is also up-to-date information, codes of practice and independent advice available from the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) website.

The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) website has a useful section on employment matters.

Working For A Charity

Looking for work in the voluntary sector?

Find more information on:

• Finding paid work and jobs, and how to transfer the skills you have to a job in the voluntary sector 
• Finding the right volunteering opportunity 
• Becoming involved in Volunteer Counselling 

People and Skills: Workforce development in the third sector is a one-stop shop for information and resources on developing your organisation's most important asset: its staff and volunteers.

The Good Guide to Employment (fifth edition) Managing and developing people in voluntary and community organisations.

For more detailed information on all employment and workforce issues discover our related HR and Employment publications.

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