Overview
Course duration: 3 days.
This course is run in partnership with JSB
Comprehensive masterclass covering all aspects of employment law legislation in detail.
Interactive training and practice – with optional 4th day tribunal visit.
This comprehensive, practical training covers all key aspects of employment law in 3 interactive days. Complete employment law will provide you with authoritative, crystal-clear tuition and the opportunity to apply the law to your own policies and practices.
Led by the UK’s top employment law specialists, you will learn how to assess your policies and procedures and advise colleagues on latest law and its implementation in line with best practice.
This course is run in partnership with JSB.
Is it right for me?
Designed for personnel and HR professionals, employee relations managers, line managers, legal advisers, HR consultants.
What will I learn?
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Gain a thorough grounding in employment law
- Assess and evaluate your policies and procedures
- Apply employment law in your workplace through case study led training
- Advise colleagues on latest employment law and its implementation in line with best practice
What will it cover?
Introduction to employment law
- Examining the nature and focus of employment law
- Considering the sources of employment law
- EU law
- Human rights
The employment relationship and employment contracts
- The recruitment process: key do’s and don’ts
- What are the elements of a binding contractual relationship?
- What are express and implied terms?
- Changing contract terms
- Continuity of employment and its importance
Employment status
- The difference between ‘employees’ and ‘workers’
- Temporary workers
- Part-time workers
- Fixed-term workers
Pay and working time
- Working Time Regulations: key rights
- Holidays and special leave
- National Minimum Wage
- Key issues when considering workers` pay
- Statutory sick pay and deductions
Special contract clauses
- Probationary periods: monitoring performance and terminating at short notice
- Confidentiality, competition and restraints
- Whistleblowing and its practical implications
Grievances and Discipline
- Definitions and concepts
- When does a `grievance` arise?
- Handling grievances: best practice guidance
- Disciplinary matters: managing procedures and warnings
- Examining the nature of formal disciplinary hearings
- The question of `reasonableness`
Dismissal
- Termination including constructive dismissal
- What are acceptable reasons for fair dismissal?
- What are automatically unfair dismissals?
- Misconduct outside the workplace
- Email and internet abuse
- Unfair dismissal - including Tribunal rules and remedies
- Settlements and compromise agreements
Performance and Absence
- How should you deal with poor performance?
- Managing short-term persistent and long-term continuous absence
Redundancy
- Defining redundancy and relating legal requirements
- Individual and collective rights
- How should you manage redundancies?
Employment Tribunals
- Time limits and claim and response forms
- Preparing for the tribunal: collecting relevant evidence
- Documentation and the tribunal `bundle`
- Getting to grips with tribunal procedure
- Dos and dont`s when presenting a case
- Employment Tribunal Regulations
Collective rights: Trade Unions and Industrial Relations
- Trade unions and how they work
- Collective agreements and employee involvement
- Recognition, rights and members
- The European Works Council
- Information and consultation regulations
Transfer of Undertakings
- What is the transfer of an undertaking?
- The new TUPE regulations
- New obligations to provide employee liability information
- Who transfers and what obligations transfer?
- Changing terms and conditions and unfair dismissals
Health and Safety at Work
- The employer`s responsibilities and liabilities: common law, statute and tort
- Protection from stress, harassment and bullying
- Vicarious liability
- Personal injuries and reasonable foreseeability
- Handling stress claims
Discrimination Law
- Sex and race discrimination: direct and indirect
- Equal Pay Act: examining the law and the material factor defense
- Sexual orientation, religion and belief, disability and age discrimination: latest
- Burden of proof
- Getting to grips with harassment and discrimination
Family-friendly Rights and Flexible Working
- Ordinary and additional maternity leave
- Paternity leave and pay
- Adoption rights
- Parental leave and time off for dependents
- Flexible working
- Future changes
Visit to an Employment Tribunal – Experience an Actual Employment Tribunal (Optional Day 4)
One of our expert trainers will accompany participants to explain and discuss aspects of the actual case, highlighting procedures, tactics and relevant points of law.This is a valuable opportunity to put into context some of the law and practice learnt in the course.
You will have the chance to:
- Gain a comprehensive overview of the tribunal process
- Get to grips with the basics of preparing a tribunal case
- See and hear how tribunal cases are presented in practice
- Consolidate your learning from the first three days of the course