Law in Practice

Employment Law in a Day

09:30
The employment relationship
  • Recruiting and managing staff
  • Employees, workers, self-employed, agency
  • Making and changing contracts
  • Terms and conditions
  • References
  • Trust and confidentiality
  • Full/part-timers
  • Pay, holidays, absence
10:30
Coffee
11:00
Dealing with discrimination
  • Sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age
  • Direct and indirect discrimination
  • Harassment and bullying
  • Family-friendly rights including parental leave
11:45
Parental rights, maternity and paternity
  • Maternity pay, leave and other rights
  • Returning to work and flexibility
  • Dismissal and redundancy
  • Familiy-friendly policies and practice
11:45
Parental rights, maternity and paternity
  • Maternity pay, leave and other rights
  • Returning to work and flexibility
  • Dismissal and redundancy
  • Familiy-friendly policies and practice
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Managing performance and absence
  • Handling poor performance
  • Dealing with difficult people
  • Managing sickness absence
14:45
Discipline, grievances and dismissal
  • Why have procedures?
  • Ensuring consistent and fair implementation
  • Wrongful, unfair and constructive dismissal
  • Reasons and reasonableness
  • Conduct and capability
  • Managing absence and performance
  • Notice, termination, avoiding claims
  • Right to be accompanied
  • Dealing with appeals
  • Avoiding employment tribunals
16:30
Close of training

 

 

Very clear and understandable, good use of case study.

— John Parr,
Sensus Marketing Systems