Home of HR agree to provide you with HR consultancy services as specified in your proposal document. This agreement shall be construed in accordance with English Law and the English courts have exclusive jurisdiction. The services will be delivered according to the following terms and conditions:
The registered company address for Home of HR is 33 Heyshott Road, Southsea, Hampshire, PO4 8BZ
Alice Hosker is owner of Home of HR. Initial contact can be made to alice@homeofhr.co.uk I or on mobile 07870 982593.
Home of HR will provide a service to you as external consultants and nothing in this agreement shall be construed as an offer or acceptance of employment, or as making us or any of our consultants or associates an agent of your organisation. We will invoice you for our services and hold full responsibility for taxes, NI and any VAT due to be paid. During the course of our work with you, we may agree that one of the consultants within our organisation or one of our associates shall represent your organisation, and that will be agreed on a case-by-case basis.
Home of HR will maintain the confidentiality of your contact details and any information we gain about your company and/or individual employees in the course of our work. We will not share your details with any third parties without your prior consent unless legally required to do so. Data stored on our computers and on paper records is stored securely and we comply with relevant data protection requirements. We agree not to use any information for purposes other than those agreed for the services we will provide to you.
When we are providing individual advice or coaching sessions, the content of discussions during these times remain confidential between Home of HR and the parties involved. The organisation may receive a brief report of the outcomes only if this is agreed in advance with the participants.
Home of HR will provide a proposal or schedule of works prior to our working together. We will then agree the specific details of the service that will be provided. We agree to provide a service that meets the objectives and outcomes we agree, as far as this is within our control. We reserve the right to change some aspects of the service in order to best meet the needs of the individuals we are working with or to meet changing demands as the project progresses. Home of HR do not take responsibility for service objectives not being met, where this is within the personal control, or choice of the individuals in your organisation that we are working with, or where this is due to issues arising within your business, or other and unforeseen events.
Neither you nor Home of HR shall be liable for any failure or delay in performing their obligations under these Terms and Conditions where such failure or delay results from any cause that is beyond either your or their reasonable control. Such causes include, but are not limited to: power failure, Internet Service Provider failure, industrial action, civil unrest, fire, flood, storms, earthquakes, acts of terrorism, acts of war, governmental action.
During the period of time that Home of HR are contracted to provide you with a service, we and any of our associates will act in good faith and in a manner that is professional, courteous and in the best interests of the organisation and the individual employees. We will utilise our skills, experience, knowledge and expertise to achieve the maximum return on investment for the service you have contracted us to provide. In return, we expect to be treated in a similar manner.
Home of HR will provide you with fee information prior to the start of our working together. Once we have agreed a fee, this can only be varied by mutual agreement or by our prior notification to you of an annual fee increase in the case of on-going or retained services. If the scope of work changes such that extra fees are applicable, we will notify you in advance. Once a proposal has been accepted and a fee agreed, if you wish to vary or change any of the details you must notify Home of HR in writing as soon as possible. Home of HR shall endeavour to make any required changes and will invoice you for any additional costs incurred. Fees are quoted exclusive of VAT, travel and other reasonable expenses unless otherwise specified. Expenses will usually be agreed prior to the commencement of work and subject to the needs of the service provided.
Home of HR will invoice you either as follows or according to a schedule that we agree prior to the start of our working together.
(a) For Consultancy & HR Support – monthly invoices submitted with first invoice to be submitted at end of the first calendar month in which we start working together. For ad-hoc projects invoice submitted on completion of the work required or at staged payment intervals throughout the project as agreed. An initial deposit may be required in advance, and this will be outlined in the proposal or works schedule submitted prior to us commencing work with you.
(b) For Retained Outsourced HR Services – first month or part month’s fee to be paid in advance, then agreed monthly retainer amount to be paid by direct debit and received by Home of HR on the date of agreement of each subsequent month so that payment is in advance for that following month. Three months’ notice is required to cancel this retained agreement unless service agreement states otherwise.
Any work in addition to the scope of the retainer will be invoiced as (a) above. Travel expenses incurred in the conduct of retained HR services will be added to the subsequent month’s invoice or invoiced separately as agreed.
Payment is due as follows:
(a) For outsourced retained HR Services the first month or part month fee is due on presentation of invoice prior to the work commencing. Subsequently, payment is due on the date of service agreement each month.
(b) For Consultancy and adhoc HR Support the agreed deposit is required on presentation of invoice prior to the work commencing. Payment for work completed is due on presentation of the invoice.
(c) Payments can be made by standing order, direct debit or electronic fund transfer.
In accordance with The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998, Home of HR reserves the right to charge interest at 8% above the prevailing Bank of England rate. Additionally, for significantly delayed payments, we reserve the right to charge reasonable debt recovery costs, in accordance with the limits specified in this legislation. If for any reason you reach a situation where you will be unable to pay in accordance with these outlined Terms and Conditions, please advise us so that we may discuss alternative payment arrangements. We will only discuss alternative payment terms in exceptional and/or unforeseen circumstances.
Once an agreement is made for Home of HR to provide any service other than the outsourced retained HR Support, the following conditions apply to cancellations made prior to the agreed start date or scheduled work dates or during the time in which an agreed work schedule is due to run:
(a) For cancellation up to and including 10 working days before the start date or any booked day/part day of work, the full fee will be charged
(b) For cancellation between 11 and 20 working days before the start date or any booked day/part day of work, 50% of the fee will be charged.
(c) For cancellations longer than 20 working days before the agreed start date or any booked day/part day of work, we reserve the right to charge £100 administration fee per day/part day plus the costs of any planning meetings and resources already purchased.
(d) For a request to reschedule dates there is no additional charge but we reserve the right to invoice on the date as if the service was provided when originally scheduled. If no mutually agreeable alternative dates can be found, we reserve the right to charge as if a cancellation has been made.
(e) In addition, for cancellations or rescheduled dates, we will invoice for all out of pocket expenses.
For outsourced retained HR Support Services the minimum termination period is detailed in the service agreement.
For consultancy services, whilst we will endeavour to meet any project deadlines that we agree, we reserve the right to decide when and where we will carry out the required work. Consultants or associates will generally work from their own addresses, with visits to your premises or other locations as agreed and required.
Home of HR reserve the right to withdraw from an assignment if significant conditions develop which impair the successful completion of the assignment or lead to a conflict of interest or other problems of an ethical nature. We will not be responsible for any costs incurred by you in this situation and we will invoice you for fees due and reasonable expenses up to and including the date of withdrawal.
In the event that Home of HR are unable to complete an HR or consultancy assignment, due to unforeseen circumstances such as illness, we can agree that we will either:
(a) Send a mutually agreeable substitute
(b) Rearrange to a mutually agreeable date
If you do not wish to agree to either of these options, we reserve the right to charge fees as if you had made a cancellation.
Unless expressly agreed in writing prior to the start of our working with you, all intellectual property remains the property of either Home of HR or the consultant(s) working with you. Unless we advise otherwise, your consultant asserts themself as the copyright owner for any materials and resources generated for use within your organisation; this includes content, structure, layout and design. If specifically agreed in writing, we may give you permission to continue using materials and resources after we finish working with you, however, this permission is not exclusive and we reserve the right to use the same or similar resources with other clients.
Home of HR has Professional Indemnity Insurance and will provide you with copies of current Certificates of Insurance on request. We will endeavour at all times to provide you with advice or information that is current, pertinent and correct according to law at the time at which it is provided. We shall not, however, be liable for any loss, damage, costs or expenses incurred by you as a result of the implementation of any report or recommendations arising out of the services provided by us to your organisation.
Furthermore, Home of HR will not be liable where you continue to use information beyond the time in which we work with you, that is no longer correct due to statutory or legislative changes.
You shall indemnify Home of HR against all damages, costs, claims and expenses suffered by them arising from loss or damage to any equipment (including that of third parties) caused by you or your employees.
Any termination of the Agreement is without prejudice to any other rights or remedies of either party arising under this agreement or at law and will not affect any accrued rights or liabilities of either party at the date of termination. All notices of termination must be in writing and sent to each party’s registered office.
A person who is not a party to this agreement has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to rely on or enforce any term of the Agreement, but this does not affect any right or remedy of a third party which exists or is available apart from that Act.
Home of HR shall not be liable for any indirect or consequential loss arising out of or in connection with this agreement or its subject matter even if we had notice of the possibility of such loss.
We shall not be liable for any loss of business, loss of profits, loss of anticipated savings, loss of reputation, loss of goodwill or business interruption or increase in bad debt arising out of or in connection with this agreement or its subject matter even if we had notice to the possibility of such loss.
Subject to clauses 24 and 25 above our entire liability in respect of all claims arising out of or in connection with this agreement and our services (whether arising in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise) in any period of 12 calendar months shall not exceed an amount equal to the sums received by or due to us from you during that period.
Nothing in the Agreement excludes either party’s liability for death or personal injury arising out of its or its employees’ negligence or for fraudulent misrepresentation.
We shall terminate this agreement with immediate effect, without prejudice to any other rights or remedies, by notice in the event that you:
(i) commit any material breach of this agreement and such breach (where capable of remedy) is not remedied to our reasonable satisfaction within 14 days of notice;
(ii) commit any material breach which is not capable of remedy;
(iii) are unable to pay your debts (within the meaning of section 123 of the Insolvency Act 1986) or become insolvent or are subject to an order or a resolution for your liquidation, administration, winding up or dissolution;
(iv) are subject to a notice of intention to appoint an administrator (as defined in paragraph 14 of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986) or has an administrative or other receiver, manager, trustee, liquidator, administrator or similar officer appointed over all or any substantial part of its assets or enters into or proposes any composition or arrangement with your creditors generally;
(v) cease or threaten to cease to carry on business.
These Terms and Conditions and associated proposal are binding for the full duration of every assignment that Home of HR undertakes for you unless we issue you with an amendment. These Terms and Conditions supersede any previous agreements and comprise the entire agreement between us.
Home of HR shall operate on the understanding that you are in agreement with these Terms and Conditions of Business, unless you notify us otherwise. These Terms and Conditions of Business shall take precedent over any terms you normally agree with other service providers.