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WENDY HUGGINS
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I need some assistance. Our companies head office is in India. We are an IT outsourcing company where we have IT employee out on contract in the UK for a time period plus we have 40 UK payrolled employees. Previously we used to have an HR Manager based out of the UK office however over the past year this has been transferred back to India to Head Office. Where I need guidance - what is legal position with regards haing no HR presence in the UK - we have about 235 employees at one time in UK or Europe. I have heard that a legal requirement that an HR Manager is present in the UK over 250 employee is this correct.
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Nigel DuPree
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Welcome Wendy,
With increased mobility and transferable skills along side e-commerce in the Global Village workers may become potentially ever more remote from head offices that now could be almost anywhere.
However, even if your HR was still on site you may not be able to have an instant appointment for a 'one to one' in person on-demand with your HR contact so if company IT based thay may be more accessable via intranet messanger anyway?
If you have a problem there is no doubt a good practice guide or policy and/or requirement to raise any issues with line management in the first instance before working your way up the hierarchy should you not be satisfied with local outcome.
As an alternative you may also have a workers safety representative and/or work collegues to talk to if feeling isolated who may be more than happy if also away from home to provide a little social support in terms of discussing things - perhaps you might suggest an employees virtual "Staff Club" and or forum much like this one for employees to keep in contact.
Or is there a specific problem or concern underlying your question?
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James Fairchild
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Just a thought, but many smaller companies outsource HR provision.
Perhaps it would work for you to do some kind of arrangement where your workers have a name/number for the UK HR Manager, and that person can deal with queries from employees, as well as advising the company over UK compliance etc.
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