We have thirty people, no HR function, and a performance problem nobody wants to be the one to handle.
Employment risk in a growing business is almost always a process problem, not a legal one. We run the process — contracts, policies, the difficult conversations and the exits — so it is done properly and once.
Dinmore Bell provides an outsourced employment function for businesses without in-house HR: contracts and handbooks, the day-to-day questions a manager cannot answer, disciplinary and grievance processes run properly, restructures and exits. Employment tribunal advocacy is conducted by instructed specialists whom Dinmore Bell prepares, coordinates and controls.
How we own it
The paperwork that prevents the problem
Contracts, handbook, policies, right-to-work, restrictive covenants that would actually hold. Written for how you operate, not copied from a template.
Live matters
Grievances, disciplinaries, performance management, sickness, TUPE on an acquisition. We own the sequence and draft every letter.
Exits
Settlement agreements, negotiated departures, senior separations. Handled quietly, with the commercial objective set first.
Where specialists come in
Employment tribunal advocacy is conducted by instructed specialists. We prepare, coordinate and control the instruction; we do not appear.
Related results
All results →Sectors we run this for
Related insights
All insights →The letter before action, and what it actually buys you
Most disputes are settled by the quality of the first letter, not by the threat at the end of it.
What a fully loaded General Counsel actually costs
The comparison is not our fee against an hourly rate. It is our fee against the hire you would otherwise make.
- What does an outsourced employment function cover?
- Contracts and handbooks, the day-to-day questions a manager cannot answer, disciplinary and grievance processes run properly, restructures and exits, and the settlement conversations that end them. It is the function a growing business needs before it can justify an HR director.
- Do you represent us at an employment tribunal?
- Tribunal advocacy is conducted by instructed specialists. We prepare the case, coordinate and control the instruction, and hold the budget — but we do not appear.
- How quickly can you deal with an urgent issue?
- Urgent employment questions are answered the same working day. The value of a retained function is that the person answering already knows your contracts, your handbook and the history, so nothing starts with an explanation.