FOR EMPLOYERS:

Russ Consultants is an agency for outsourcing the Human Resources Management of any business, however our focus is more on making it a very attractive choice for small to medium business.

It is not viable for business to have their own Human Resources team in house within most New Zealand business\'s, this is not to mention the extended offices, hard and software requirements, and then the issue of performance and efficiency.

Russ Consultants work with each business to either consult on a better way for their HR arm to work, work collectively performing some of the HR functions of the business, or become the HR management team of the entire business HR requirements.  What ever the choice, we ensure it adds the maximum value to your bottom line with an extreme lowering of stress and risk.

Employment Agreements (Contracts):  Employment Agreements (Contracts), not have they been legally required since 1991, they are a must in today\'s legalized employment world.

An employment agreement is the written agreement of the terms of employment as negotiated at the commencement or alteration of the employment relationship. It is meant to be the documented (formalized) terms of the agreement so that when there is a dispute, both parties can refer back to the employment agreement, and for these reasons they have been legally required to be formalized.

One can only guess how the courts look on an employer whom fails to formalize the employment agreement in the start when an employee commences employment, a 14 year old law that is more relevant today than it ever has been.

Research has proven many times over that employees with an employment agreement in a written form are more productive than in the absence of one.

Employment Agreements cannot be purchased off the shelf, if they are chances are they will still have a few loop holes in them for your particular business. Employment agreements need to be custom made for your specific requirements of your business.

Advantages in getting an Employment Agreement done through Russ Consultants:

A complete agreement, drawn up for the requirements of your business made to protect your legal best interests, but also to maximize its usage as a Management tool of your staff. 

Adds to your bottom line. We have found most employers who try to do an agreement themselves spend over 30 hours of time to produce an agreement that still has holes in it, what is 30 hours of production time worth to you?

Management Advice.   In drawing up the agreement we will offer advice on the best way to manager your staff with you current employment situation and laws.  Not only will you have an agreement, you will understand each clause within the agreement.

Caped cost.  Russ Consultants do agreements on a fixed contract term, no matter what we need to include or edit it will only cost you the fixed amount. Currently we offer all agreements at a caped amount of $75

Pay Roll: Time is money, and there is nothing like pay roll to prove this, every hour an employee applies has to be paid. Likewise every hour of physical work the owner performs is two hours less the employee will need to apply.

Russ Consultants payroll department on a weekly basis are devoted full time with the focus on Pay Roll and do it accurately within the framework of all the latest laws and the current employment agreement of each staff member you employ.

Advantages in getting Russ Consultants to do your Pay Roll:

Improved bottom line; more internal time focused on what creates value in your business rather than wasted on the bureaucratic requirements in doing paperwork.

No annual payout of upgrading payroll software for latest law changes. 

Accurately worked and managed calculation of pay with all latest regulations

Eliminate the risk of sticky fingers, our pay roll department will not have a direct link or relationship with the business employees reducing the risk of calibration of employees to fraud the business.

Recruitment & Selection: We hear it every day, \"I can’t find good staff\". Too often small business doesn’t manage its human element of its input cost well, this management issue is the retention of staff in the first place, and upon the requirement to replace, not managing the process with any managed approach.

Recruitment is a science that requires extensive training and experience in being effective.  Also there is economies of scale that a recruitment firm can offer that in today’s commercial environment it is not worth performing the recruitment in house for small business’s.

Advantages in getting Russ Consultants to do your Recruitment & Selection:

TIME- often you will find we will do the job in a shorter time period than doing it yourself allowing you’re personal to focus on what creates value to your business.

Economies of Scale- Media costs, but understandably the more volume of adverts a company places, the cheaper adverts get to place.  Our economies of scale allows us to place better adverts in a more diverse field of places for similar or less than in house approaches.

Vetting – Russ Consultants have a existing database link to better vet potential candidates, informing you as the employer of any issues with any candidate that you might not otherwise have found out.

Better Employee’s – after using a proven method of recruitment, you are more likely to attract a better employee who will add more to your bottom line in their production.

Human Resource Audit: If anything, we advise all employers who have an in-house HR arm to annually audit your HR arm.

A consultant will annually audit the systems and practices being used by your HR arm and produce a report on any areas that need attention and what we recommend should be done.

Most audits are performed for under $200 and are well worth the insurance of an external professional opinion of how your HR arm performs against other HR teams and legal constraints and requirements.

Employment Relations Consultants: Employees are increasingly taking their employers through the Courts for breach of contract among many other reasons.

Most legal practices recommend an Employment Relations Consultant/lawyer to clients who have such a situation.  We are specialized in Employment Relations Laws as well as the procedures of the Employment Relations Authority and Court.  For these facts we can deal with Employment Legal issues better.

We however only deal with Employment Law and should refer all other legal matters to your normal legal practice.

How Russ Consultants Assists as Employment Relations Consultants:

End Cost – Russ Consultants tend to be a lot cheaper than a normal solicitor/barrister with dealing with employment issues.

Time and Efficiency – Not only are our consultants faster due to experience, but the outcome is better due to doing everything in your best interests that is possible due to our experience in knowing how to handle such cases.

Other Functions, but not limited to:

Remuneration and Job Evaluation

Change Management Consulting

Performance Management & Systems

Human Resource Strategic and Scenerio Planning

Job Design, Job Descriptions, Position Analysis

Customer and Employee Surveys

Strategic, Tactical and Operational Servicing

Acting in any HR Roles

Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS)