Course code: JSB-MVEC - call 0845 071 2801
Overview
Course duration: 1 day.
This course is run in partnership with JSB.
How do you avoid the legal pitfalls of changing employment contracts? This one-day training course provides you with a sound understanding of contract law and its application in the workplace. It emphasises how to handle contract variations in line with changing business needs. It explains the risks and the opportunities together with practical management considerations, set in their legal context.
- How and when can you change key terms and conditions of employment?
- What if your employees do not accept proposed changes?
- When can you vary the contract unilaterally?
- When is it safe to terminate the contract and offer re-engagement on changed terms?
- How and when can you harmonise contract terms across different teams, divisions or businesses?
Is it right for me?
Designed for HR and personnel professionals, employee relations managers, legal advisers and HR consultants.
What will I learn?
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Understand the importance of contract law in the employment relationship
- Know what to include in an employment contract - and how to vary this if necessary
- Advise on contract flexibility
- Check and update employment contracts
- Explore the practical and legal solutions to problems that may rise from varying employment contracts - in an interactive, case study format
What will it cover?
The employment process
- Individual contracts and collective agreements
- Continuity of key rights
- Termination of employment
Contracts of employment – the basics
- Meaning and formation of ‘contract’
- Fundamentals of employment contracts
- ‘Employees’ and ‘workers’
- Types of contract
Varying contracts – the legal context
- Making the contract
- Express and implied terms
- Written particulars
Changing contract terms
- Express and implied variation
- Agreed and unilateral variation
- Acceptance and non-acceptance
- Dismissal and re-employment
- Individual and collective consultation
Special cases
- Business reorganisation and redundancy
- TUPE and changing contract terms
- Flexible working requests
- Changes to working hours
Practical management issues
- Defending business needs
- Producing a ‘sellable’ product
- Consultation, agreement and persuasion
- Overcoming objections
- Maintaining employee communication
- Defending subsequent tribunal proceedings