Employment Law in Practice

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Employment Law for Line Managers

Your line managers do not want to be employment lawyers – nor should they be.  But managing teams without reference to the legal environment of the workplace, is likely to lead to trouble.  Your line managers need the legal knowledge to enable them to manage confidently and effectively.  This programme offers an excellent introduction to the current essentials of employment law for line managers.  It will enable them to get to grips with the fundamentals of practical employment law quickly, covering six key areas of workplace law and best practice.

Benefits

  • Gain a sound understanding of essential elements of law relevant to day-to-day management responsibilities
  • Clarify individual, corporate and professional responsibility
  • Avoid unnecessary risk and exposure and learn how to protect your business
  • Know how to implement organisational policies in a legally regulated environment
  • Be able to make most effective use of corporate HR consultancy services

What the training covers

Recruitment, selection and appointment

  • Interviews
  • Making and changing contracts
  • Contracts – express and implied terms
  • What defines an “employee”?
  • What are the consequences of employment status?
  • References
  • Trust and confidentiality
  • Full/part-time workers
  • Pay, holidays, time, absence

Dealing with discrimination, harassment and bullying

  • Sex and race discrimination
  • Direct and indirect discrimination
  • Harassment and bullying
  • Victimisation
  • Disability discrimination
  • What is a disability?
  • Making reasonable adjustments
  • Age discrimination
  • Sexual orientation, religion or belief

Maternity, paternity and parental rights and flexibility

  • Work and Families Act
  • Maternity leave and pay extension
  • Returning to work – what is the same job?
  • Keeping in touch days (KITs)
  • Flexible working rights enhancement
  • New paternity leave scheme
  • Parental rights
  • Dismissal and redundancy
  • Family-friendly policies and practice

Effective absence management

  • Employer’s obligations
  • Short- and long-term absence
  • Failure to return and ‘frustration’
  • Stress-related absence

Performance and capability issues – how to handle

  • Poor performance
  • Conduct and capability
  • Dishonesty outside the workplace
  • Misuse of email and internet
  • Absence management
  • ‘Capability’ aspects
  • Absence and fair dismissals
  • Performance and absence management issues relating to shift workers and late working
  • Understanding ‘reasonableness’

Grievance, discipline and dismissal

  • ‘Wrongful’, ‘unfair’ and ‘constructive’ dismissal
  • Employee’s statutory rights
  • Qualifying period and excluded employees
  • Written reasons for dismissal
  • Redundancy
  • Understanding how to act fairly and reasonably
  • Employment tribunals – how to avoid claims

Programme sessions: These are suggested topics only. The precise programme content will vary, depending upon your priorities, the needs of the participants and developments and changes in the law between now and the date the training takes place.

 

 

This is a sample programme. It can be tailored in content, duration and format to suit your organisation.

Call us now on +44 (0)20 8371 7012
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Both the course material and Sanjiv Ahluwalia have been very well received. I am particularly pleased that we had Sanjiv as he seemed to be able to relate with our people here.

— Andy Hayes, Training Manager, GEARBULK