Acas Code of Practice

Overview

Course duration: 0.5 days.

Understand the Acas Code of Practice and how it impacts your organisation and policies.

The Acas Code of Practice came into force in April 2009, simplifying the law relating to discipline, grievances and dismissals, with a focus on early intervention and mediation.

Employers and employees benefit from greater flexibility to deal with workplace discipline and grievance issues in a way which suits them best. But what they don’t know is that the new Acas Code of Practice comes with its own set of challenges.

In light of the abolition of the highly criticised statutory procedures the Code replaced, JSB’s Acas Code of Practice workshop will consider the key elements of the revised Code on discipline and grievance procedures, assess the impact on HR, provide practical guidance for changing policies and procedures to ensure compliance and avoid uplifts of award by 25%.

This course is run in partnership with JSB.

Is it right for me?

Designed for Directors, Partners, Senior Executives, Employment Lawyers, In-House Legal Advisors, HR Professionals, and Employee Relations Advisors.

What will I learn?

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Use the new disciplinary and grievance procedures under the new Acas Code of Practice
• Understand how the new regime will impact on your organisation and HR – changing policies and procedures to ensure compliance
• Use practical guidance on how to carry out effective disciplinary and grievance investigations and hearings
• Understand the role of mediation to solve workplace disputes
• Grasp how will the Courts interpret the new Code and how will the uplift rules be applied in practice

What will it cover?

Interpreting the new Acas Code of Practice

• The new law – abolition of the new statutory dismissal and grievance procedures
• What replaces the statutory procedures?
• Disciplinary and dismissal procedures under the new rules
• Grievance procedures under the new rules
• The transitional period
• New Acas Code and guidance
• The importance of investigation and mediation

Assessing how the new regime will impact on HR

• Putting the new regime into practice – changing policies and procedures to ensure compliance
• Handing cases – suspension, investigation, the hearing, the decision and appeals

The employment tribunals approach

• Old versus new – what’s changed?
• Applying the uplift rules