Employment Law in Practice

Welcome, introduction and outline of objectives

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

Lunch

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’ production

• Consultation, agreement and persuasion

• Overcoming objections

• Maintaining employee communication

• Defending subsequent tribunal proceedings

Close of training