HR consultancy · Leeds · retained by 60+ UK SMEs
The grievance is real. The exposure doesn’t have to be.
Tandem is retained HR for businesses of 10 to 200 people — the disciplinary done fairly, the TUPE done properly, the dismissal that doesn’t come back as a claim. Two Chartered CIPD principals on every client. No account managers.
- Retained
- 60+ SMEs
- Principals
- 2 · CIPD
- Founded
- 2019
Your risk.
Our cover.
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A grievance lands and nobody’s trained to hear it
A principal runs or supervises the hearing within five working days, minuted to an insurer-approved standard
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A dismissal you suspect is overdue — and risky
Capability or conduct process mapped before you act, with the paper trail a tribunal would ask for
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Contracts and handbook last touched years ago
Both rebuilt and then maintained against every legislation change, as standard, on every package
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A TUPE, restructure or redundancy round ahead
Consultation run properly, timelines kept, election of reps handled — the casework page shows the record
Why a pair
One leads. One reviews. Every time.
Ruth Calloway (Chartered FCIPD) and Marcus Adeyemi (Chartered MCIPD) are the whole firm — sixteen and eleven years in-house before this. Every dismissal letter, every investigation report, every settlement position is written by one and reviewed by the other before you see it. That second pair of eyes is the product.
Meet bothRetained packages
Priced monthly, published here.
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Essentials
£295 per month
The advice line, contracts and handbook maintained, annual review. The baseline every employer should have.
Tier detail -
Growth
£495 per month
Essentials plus hands-on casework — disciplinaries, grievances, absence — manager coaching, and a quarterly on-site day.
Tier detail -
Full Cover
£795 per month
Growth plus tribunal-insurance backing, unlimited casework, and the 24-hour urgent line for the genuinely bad week.
Tier detail
Annual agreements, leave at three months’ notice. Every client gets both principals — one leads your account, the other reviews every piece of formal casework before it goes out.
Casework, resolved
What “handled” looks like on paper.
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Care · 120 staff
TUPE of 38 staff from a failed provider — zero tribunal claims, CQC continuity maintained.
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Hospitality · 45 staff
Kitchen grievance cluster heard and resolved in 19 days, no claims, both chefs still employed.
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Construction · 28 staff
Long-term absence dismissal done fairly — settled internally, no ACAS escalation.