APSCo Helpdesks

Our help desk service is one of APSCo’s most popular benefits and is the only service dedicated to the specific legal, compliance and accountancy needs of the professional recruitment sector. Staffed by recruitment experts, the help desks provide practical advice and information across a wide range of topics - available from 9 am to 5.30 pm, Monday to Friday. APSCo Members will receive up to 20 minutes of free specialist advice. Access these services using your company’s email address and by providing your contact telephone details and basic information on your query. 

 

 

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Legal Help Desk

To access the legal help desk, email the APSCo legal team with your query through your company’s email address and your contact telephone details. The turnaround target is 8  hours.

 

Please note that the help desk cannot cover complex, on-going issues, tax issues, review of contracts, correspondence, or written advice.  If your issue does not fall within the scope of the legal help desk, you may want to enter into a commercial agreement with your own solicitors or with one of our specialist Trusted Partners. You can also access our FAQs here.

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Immigration

APSCo has partnered with leading UK legal firm  JMW Solicitors LLP to provide free immigration technical advice and support for members. APSCo members can contact the Immigration Help desk with any questions in relation to UK Immigration Law and how to recruit employees who are either EU nationals or non-EEA nationals. The turnaround target is 48 hours.

 

If the enquiry is complex and takes longer than 20 minutes to resolve, a fee may be charged for any additional work. If this is the case, JMW Solicitors LLP will provide an estimate of their fee before it is charged and there is no obligation to use their services. 

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Accountancy

APSCo has partnered with UK accountancy firm Azuki Accounts to provide free technical advice and support for members concerning accounting, tax, and corporate finance. The turnaround target is 48 hours.

 

If the enquiry is complex and takes longer than 20 minutes to resolve, a fee may be charged for the additional work. If this is the case, a senior accountant from Azuki Accounts will provide an estimate of their fee before it is charged and there will be no obligation to use their services. The Accountancy Help desk is reliant on members to provide full details of the proposed transaction or circumstances and is not responsible for any information or guidance  given as part of the free Help desk service. 

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International Helpdesks

APSCo has partnered with international expert supplier of contractor management solutions 6CATS International to provide free international advice and support for members. Please specify the country when using this help desk. The turnaround target is 24 hours


The International Compliance Help desk is designed to give general compliance advice on running contractors in jurisdictions other than the UK and the USA and for general basic employment advice.  It is not for the purpose of providing legal advice and you should refer any query requiring legal advice back to the legal help desk who can provide the member with details of our legal Trusted Partners. 

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USA
APSCo has partnered with leading supplier of contractor payroll and management solutions PGC (Precision Global Consulting) to provide members with global legislative compliance advice on the US and Canadian market.  The turnaround target is 24 hours.

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Disclaimer

APSCo Help desks can only form opinions and provide generic guidance based on the information provided by the user of the Help desk.  Information provided by the help desks should not be treated as professional legal, accountancy or compliance advice. The help desks are not regulated by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority, the ICEAW or any other regulatory body and no professional/client relationship exists between the help desk advisor, their organisation and the user.  Any guidance given is non-binding. 

 

If partial or incomplete information is provided to the help desks, the guidance given is likely to differ to that which would be given if based on the full facts. To the fullest extent permissible by law, APSCo, its help desk partners and its advisors (the helpdesk providers) hereby exclude all liability in so far as permissible in law, for any claim, loss, demands or damages of any kind whatsoever arising out of or in connection with the use of the help desk and/or any information, opinion or guidance given and the help desk user will hold the help desk providers harmless in respect of such claims.

 

Our help desk staff and Partners treat all help desk users with courtesy and respect. Similarly, we expect our help desk staff and Partners to be treated in the same way. We have a duty to protect the welfare and safety of our helpdesk colleagues. Aggressive, abusive or threatening language and / or behaviours towards our help desk staff or Partners will not be tolerated under any circumstances.