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News Release from: IRIS Enterprise Software | Subject: HR and Legal Helpline
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 September 2005
IRIS throws HR support lifeline to UK
businesses
Leading accountancy and business software developer, IRIS, has launched an HR and Legal Helpline for UK businesses.
Leading accountancy and business software developer, IRIS, has launched an HR and Legal Helpline for UK businesses This is the first time that the company has stepped outside the software arena to offer specialist telephone support, in this case on employment law, to small to medium sized businesses
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 17 Jun 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The launch of the IRIS HR and Legal Helpline is a natural progression for the company following the launch of IRIS HR Manager last year", Martin Leuw, Group Chief Executive commented.
"We are totally committed to making it easier to run the small to medium sized business at a time when the expansion of employment law is presenting employers with appalling practical problems".
"The benefit of access to the equivalent of an in-house legal team at the end of a telephone will allow SMEs to better control their costs and will help them to avoid unnecessary legal expenses".
For the last 26 years, the IRIS name has been synonymous with the highest levels of customer telephone support in both the professional services sector and the small business arena.
For this venture, the company is partnering FirstAssist, the UK's premier provider of 24 hour legal advice and information services.
The confidential telephone legal service operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with a team of 40 qualified lawyers enabling businesses to:.
* check their legal position before committing to a course of action.
* handle disputes of relatively low monetary value without the need to employ the services of a solicitor.
* identify those matters in which it is appropriate to employ a solicitor.
The pricing model for the service is based upon company size, calculated by the number of employees, ranging in bands from 1-10, 10-20, 20-50, 50-100,100-200,200-300,300-400,400-500 and 500 plus.
The entry level for a company employing between 1 and 10 employees is priced competitively at GBP250 per annum.
An 'HR bundle' comprising access to the legal helpline and IRIS HR Manager, costs GBP450 for a company employing less than 10 staff.
Martin Leuw continued: "The aim of the pricing model is to make the IRIS HR and Legal Helpline a highly cost effective option for smaller companies".
"Too many services aimed at this market are prohibitively expensive and we believe that it is the smaller companies that need the most help.".
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