Essential Employment Law

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2-day interactive training and practice
London - 28-29 Sep 2010, 14-15 Dec 2010, 10-11 Jan 2011, 6-7 Jun 2011, 26-27 Sep 2011, 12-13 Dec 2011
London £845 + VAT

Essential Employment Law in brief:

This training course will provide you with a firm grounding in the key elements of employment law in just two days. Authoritative, interactive, crystal-clear training will help you check your organisation's policies against best practice and legal requirements and apply employment law essentials in your workplace. If you are new to the HR function, or require a refresher on the basics of employment law, then this course is for you.

This event is CPD accredited.

Designed for:

HR and personnel professionals, employee relations managers, line managers, HR consultants, anyone else needing to know the employment law essentials.

Training highlights:

  • Gain a thorough understanding of essential aspects of employment law
  • Get clear advice and guidance on how employment law is applied, through a case study led approach
  • Learn how to provide sound, authoritative advice to colleagues on latest employment law
  • Be able to check your workplace policies against employment law best practice

The Programme

Day One

09:30
CASE STUDY : Creating the employment relationship
  • The recruitment process: interviews, the offer letter, references and medicals
  • Contracts of employment: what are express and implied terms?
  • Restrictive covenants: when do you need them?
10:15
Employment status and contracts
  •  Defining employment status: 'worker' and 'employee'
  • Agency workers: considering the employment status of temporary workers following recent case law
  • Making and varying employment contracts
  • Part-time workers
  • Fixed term contracts and varying employment contracts
  • Working time opt out provisions, holiday entitlement and enforcement
11:15
CASE STUDY : Discrimination, diversity and equal opportunities
  • Direct and indirect discrimination
  • Examining the Equal Pay Act: material factor defence and recent case law
  • Sex, race and disability discrimination
  • Sexual orientation, religion and belief discrimination
  • The new age discrimination law explained
  • Victimisation and harassment: defences and protection
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Discrimination, diversity and equal opportunities - continued
14:30
CASE STUDY : Family-friendly rights
  • Maternity, paternity and adoption rights
  • Antenatal care and pregnancy dismissals and discrimination
  • Parental leave and time off for dependants
  • The right to request flexible working arrangements
  • The Work and Families Act
16:30
Close of day one

Day Two

09:30
The new TUPE regulations
  • Understanding TUPE: definitions, employer obligations and recent case law
  • What are the practical effects of the regulations?
  • Contracting out services
  • Transfers and unfair dismissal
11:15
CASE STUDY : Grievance and disciplinary procedures
  • What are the statutory dismissal and disciplinary procedures?
  • Looking at exceptions and standard procedure
  • How should modified disciplinary procedures be used?
  • Considering the importance of time limits
  • The revised ACAS Code of Practice
  • Handling grievances in practice
  • Handling disciplinary matters: process, procedure and hearings
  • Acting fairly and reasonably
12:30
Lunch
13:30
CASE STUDY : Dismissal
  • Considering methods of termination including constructive dismissal
  • What are acceptable reasons for fair dismissals?
  • The nature of conduct and capability
  • What are automatically unfair dismissals?
  • Handling redundancies and being 'reasonable'
14:30
CASE STUDY : Performance and absence
  • Dealing with poor performance and absenteeism
  • Managing stress related absence: avoiding common pitfalls
  • Misconduct outside the workplace
15:30
Employment Tribunals: preparation and procedure
  • Time limits and handling claim and response forms
  • Preparing and presenting cases: evidence collation and the preliminary hearing
  • Documentation and the tribunal 'bundle'
  • Getting to grips with tribunal procedure
  • Do's and don'ts when presenting a case: opening speeches, evidence in
  • chief and cross examination
  • Employment Tribunal remedies for unfair dismissal
  • Rules and costs of settlement
16:30
Close of day two

Client testimonials

Very good all round.Well paced and productive

—Barry Murphy, Commonwealth War Graves Commission

An excellent course throughout the two days. I certainly learnt a lot of valuable information

—Julie Ward, Stylo

Excellent presentation and delivery. Never a boring moment!

—Joyce Poulter, Sabre Holdings

Really useful feedback - I received very specific answers to my questions

—Rohan Meadowcroft, HR Advisor, Reed Specialist

Useful overview, fast paced but good took away info

—Sarah Upton, Head of UK Resourcing, National Grid

Venue details

Kingsway Hall Hotel
66 Great Queen Street
London
WC2B 5BX

Tel. 0207 309 9100
Email. reservations@kingswayhall.co.uk

Click here here to visit the website.

Elegant four-star deluxe hotel situated in the heart of London’s fashionable Covent Garden, only few minutes from Waterloo train station. Easy access to London’s most popular attractions, spending time in the city has never been easier.  Each of the 170 bedrooms is fully air-conditioned and has broadband access, fax and ISDN connections.  Spend time shopping in Britain’s most fashionable hot spots like Covent Garden or Oxford Street, invest in culture and visit attractions like the London Eye, the British Museum or Theatreland or dine out in some of the best restaurants that London has to offer. Or if you prefer to take things easy, why not make the most of the fitness centre and relax in the Jacuzzi and steam rooms?  Kingsway Hall is also excellently situated if you want to do business in comfort. Choose from one of nine conference and banqueting suites, each with state-of-art audio visual equipment. Whether you are here on business or pleasure, Kingsway Hall will help you to enjoy your stay in pure elegance.

Joining Instructions

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Please note: You need to book and pay in advance of attendance.

Trainers

Our People

Winston Brown

Winston Brown LLB is a member of JSB’s Employment Law Faculty specialising in employment law and is a practising Solicitor.  He is also a Prince II qualified Project Manager. 

Winston worked as a prosecutions lawyer for HM Customs and Excise before supervising the Employment Unit at Lewisham Law Centre for seven years. He is now a senior lawyer in local government with extensive advocacy and representation experience in employment tribunals, the Employment Appeal Tribunal and higher courts. Winston is Lead Professional for Solicitors in Local Government, in which capacity he leads on and responds to employment law issues, as they impact on local government.

Winston has designed and delivered CPD accredited training programmes in a variety of employment law areas in both public and private sectors.

 

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Testimonials

“Very good all round.Well paced and productive”

— Barry Murphy,
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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  • Significant cost savings
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