The UK Employee Relations and Employment Law Services Market:

Consulting, Content & Advisory Services 2006/7

Most people assume that this is a market dominated by employment lawyers. It is not - especially for medium and smaller UK companies. This report analyses the market beyond traditional legal services and solicitors practices.

There is a wide range of choice, a dynamic set of suppliers, and specialists in all the favoured solution types, be it insurance, publications, consultancy or outsourcing.

Many major companies still prefer to use employment lawyers for formal dispute resolution issues, but they maintain internal teams of personnel and HR specialists: industrial relations and employee relations specialists.

Mid market companies increasingly use external non-legal practices specialist consultancies and outsource the whole issue.

SMEs use insurance backed outsourcers increasingly, and micro businesses prefer insurance and affinity group based advice and assistance services, but are also outsourcing increasingly.

What used to be a market served by publishers informing and educating in-house staff on how to cope, has now changed to an outsourcing/consultancy one.

There are high service providers for large and small companies, just as there are commoditised suppliers to large and small companies. The customer's choice has never been higher.

Publishers, insurers, institutes and consultancies all have a role to play in the future, but their relative strengths and services are changing dramatically.

Uniquely this Market Report analyses four key sectors:

Specialist Consultancies: Such as Park City , KLC, Pemberton, and lawyers offering commercial packages such as Eversheds, DWF...

Regulatory Consultancies: Such as Peninsula, Croner Consulting, RBS Mentor Services, Citation, MHL...

Publishers: Such as Croner, Gee, IDS, IRS/Tolley. and new entrants such as IQ, Beprofessional...

Insurance based suppliers : Such as Abbey Legal, Allianz Cornhill, Capita Eastgate, DAS, First Assist...

Ten Key Points Covered:

• How this market compares to other B2B compliance markets in growth and profitability rates.
• Strategic analysis according to Porter's 5 forces analysis model.
• A services matrix comparing each supplier's coverage and their specialisms in detail.
• Clear market mapping of long term trends and relative market shares.
• Competitive analysis at industry, sector and inter-company levels.
• Long term financial trends for each sector and all key suppliers within it.
• Benchmarking data for sales, growth, profit and profitability from 1995 to 2010.
• Operational benchmarks for sales per employee, average employee cost and payroll as a percentage of sales since 1995.
• Detailed market driver analysis including tribunal and court case trends.
• Detailed analysis of every M&A deal in this sector with benchmarks explained.

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