I've only actually once given them a proper HR problem to handle, which they promptly bottled and left me to handle. So I'm generalising as usual.
(, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 15:18, archived)
There's loads of free HR advice out there, ACAS are really good.
(, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 15:21, archived)
Otherwise, I might as well not bother. Except I have to follow all their rules for recruiting. See "I'm not allowed to interview someone that I alone am employing with my own funds because I haven't been on the HR 'interviewing people' course.
(, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 15:37, archived)