The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises. Charity registered in Scotland SC003558. Registered office Mansfield Traquair Centre, 15 Mansfield Place, Edinburgh EH3 6BB.
Key HR policies and procedures
As a minimum, all organisations should have disciplinary, grievance and health and safety policies. Beyond this there are no strict legal requirements to provide your staff with written workplace policies or procedures. It is generally regarded, however, as best practice for employers to have certain policies in place to provide clear guidance, consistency of practice, fairness and to reduce risk.
Some policies might be a short paragraph of information in a staff handbook or contract, others will be more detailed documents and may include a process with time scales. We've provided templates for the following areas, included below, which we highly recommend having policies for.