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Ensuring compliance: HR systems - Spotlight on ‘Managing people’
Your social business will require people to deliver its mission and activities. Depending on the size and nature of your business, your services may be delivered by volunteers, employed staff or contractors and freelancers. Managing these people well will be a key role for the business and the Board members.
You will need to ensure that you:
- Meet all relevant legal and regulatory requirements
- Have appropriate policies and procedures in place to manage volunteers
- Have effective HR policies and procedures to employ and manage staff
- Are aware of your obligations to contractors and freelancers
- Meet all employer requirements
- Develop a positive culture for people in your social business.
In this section:
Detailed guidance on systems and procedures for business compliance
Ensuring compliance: Governance systems and records
Ensuring compliance: Financial systems and controls - set-up requirements
Ensuring compliance: Financial systems and controls - ongoing requirements
Ensuring compliance: HR systems and procedures
Ensuring compliance: HR systems - Spotlight on ‘Managing people’
- Managing people: Employing and managing staff
- Managing people: Managing volunteers
- Managing people: Using contractors and freelancers
Ensuring compliance: Managing assets and resources - Spotlight on ‘Assets’
- Managing assets: Health and safety
- Managing assets: Premises and equipment
- Managing assets: Information technology
- Managing assets: Data protection
- Managing assets: Intellectual property, licenses, registration
Want to discuss further? Contact sbwenquiries@wales.coop or your dedicated Business Advisor.