Many not-for-profit groups evolve from being a "voluntary run only" organisation to one where they can begin to employ staff. For many of the Committee Members/ Trustees, this may be their first experience of being an "employer" and managing staff.

It is an unfortunate fact of life that from an employment point of view, size does not matter. If you are an employer of only one person you have to know as much as if you employ a thousand.

CA Plus can assist you through this process and provide a range of free-of-charge employment law and HR advice and support to any not-for-profit group based within the City of Nottingham or County of Nottinghamshire.

Please note, as we are funded to provide support to "employers" we are not able to give specific personal advice to "employees".

The general services available are:

• Ad-hoc advice (via telephone or email)
• Employment Contracts and HR Policy development
• One-to-one advice or training
• Staff/trustee group training
• Monthly Employment News Update (an email newsletter)
• Web Site information (24/7)

Further menu items provide information on a variety of employment related topics, hopefully written in an easy to understand format (rather than the legal gobbledegook we are usually confronted with).

If you would like to discuss your groups Employment/HR needs with our Employment Manager please contact us for more information.

Alternatively, why not start off with an Employment Healthcheck to ascertain if your employment contracts, policies and procedures are are up to date or fit for purpose. For more details see:

Employment Healthcheck Information (Word)
Employment Healthcheck Information (PDF)

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Acknowledgment: we would especially like to thank Jo McCarthy an Employment Solicitor based here in Nottingham, for kindly agreeing to read through all our employment advice pages and advice notes as an external quality control measure.