How Should I Develop an HR Policy for Our School with Diverse Staff?

I want to create an HR policy for our school. Currently, the accountant is handling all HR matters. Our school employs over 120 individuals, including part-time, hourly rate teachers, contract-based, temporary, and permanent staff.

Developing an HR Policy

What kind of HR policy should I develop? The school is part of an educational trust. Should the HR department be established for the school or the trust? Please, can anyone assist me?

Regards,
Santhosh

By and large, the HR policies would be the same as for any educational institution—except that you will need to tweak the policies a bit to suit your institution.

HR Department Implementation: School or Trust?

Coming to your query ["where should the HR department be implemented—for school or for Trust?"]—obviously for the school, since this is where the employees work. The Trust can start another institution—where again the HR policies related to that institution would need to be tailor-made and implemented.

This is akin to something like Tata Sons Ltd being the Holding Company of all the Tata Group Companies—yet each of the Group Companies has its own set of HR Policy Frameworks.

Hope you get the point.

All the best.

Regards,
TS

I second Taj Sateesh. The trust can have a number of institutions, hospitals, daycares, etc. Since you have been appointed by the school, your responsibility lies in implementing HR policies for the school only, unless you have been asked to implement HR policies for the entire group.