Advanced Employment Law

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2-day interactive training and practice
7-8 Feb 2011, 13-14 Sep 2011
London £865 + VAT

Advanced Employment Law in brief:

The only application-focused course of its kind for experienced HR practitioners who have a good understanding of employment law principles and want to build on their existing knowledge with a more detailed study of key aspects and recent developments in employment law.

This event is CPD accredited.

Designed for:

Designed for HR and personnel professionals with responsibility for employment law policy and/or its implementation. Practitioners who wish to extend the range and depth of their knowledge of practical employment law with direct workplace application.

Training highlights:

  • Develop, consolidate and deepen your existing knowledge of employment law with expert feedback and input from our specialist trainer
  • Work through specific case studies and discuss relevant employment law issues with JSB\'s trainer and professional colleagues
  • Analyse and evaluate recent developments in domestic and EU-wide employment law
  • Enhance your understanding of the more complex areas of advanced employment law through trainer input, discussion and debate

The Programme

Day One

09:00
Registration and coffee
09:30
Discrimination in the workplace
  • Direct and indirect discrimination
  • Sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief
  • Age discrimination impact
  • Pregnancy discrimination
  • Equal pay issues
  • Harassment and bullying – latest cases
10:45
Coffee
11:00
Transfer of undertakings
  • New regulations in operation
  • Recent case law and judicial guidance
  • Contracting out and outsourcing
  • Informing and consulting
  • Practical business transfer issues
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Developments in European law
  • EU 'Green Paper' - concept of flexicurity
  • Fixed-term contracts
  • EU anti-discrimination legislation
  • National level information and consultation of workers
  • EU Agency Workers Directive
  • Implementation timetables
  • Likely future developments
15:00
Coffee
15:15
Developments in European law continued
16:30
End of day one

Day Two

09:00
Registration and coffee
09:30
Trends in employment protection and dismissal
  • Protection of part-time, temporary, casual and agency workers
  • The concept of 'worker' and the extension of employment protection rights
  • Employment status – latest cases
  • Remedies and effect of increase in compensatory awards
  • Unfair dismissal, dispute resolution
  • Statutory grievance and disciplinary procedures
  • Tribunals – latest developments
10:45
Coffee
11:00
Human Rights
  • Convention and Act
  • Employment law and human rights
  • Workplace privacy
  • Expression, association and assembly
  • Discrimination
  • Remedies
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Employee references
  • Duty to give a reference
  • What the reference must say and not say
  • Avoiding or limiting liability
14:30
Privacy and data protection
  • Handling employee data
  • Rights of access to data
  • Code of practice
  • Practical steps for employers to take
  • Email/internet abuse
15:15
Coffee
15:30
Privacy and data protection continued
16:30
End of day two

Client testimonials

Very informative and interesting - I'm glad I attended!

—Chris Sozou, EDF Trading Ltd

Very participative and extremely valuable

—Diarmid McBride, GM-HR, EMEA, OKI Europe

Challenging (break outs), informative and actionable

—Ian Knights, Head of HR, Sanofi-Aventis

Venue details

JSB Training and Development
Dove House
Arcadia Avenue
N3 2JU

Tel. 020 8371 7000

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Trainers

Our People

John Sprack

John Sprack BA LLB Cert.Ed Dip FE Barrister is an experienced JSB trainer/consultant specialising in employment law. John spent seven years in teaching before moving into training at both NATFHE and the NUT.  He subsequently went on to practice as a barrister, specialising in criminal and employment law.  From 1989 to 2000 he taught employment law, advocacy, remedies, negotiation, drafting and case preparation at the Inns of Court Law School (ICSL), and became the Director of the Bar Vocational Course. 

As well as his training activities, John edits and writes for various publications, including the quarterly Lawletter published by JSB. He is the author of the Guide to the Age Discrimination Regulations (Tottel, 2006). His most recent book, published in late 2007, is Employment Law and Practice, published by Sweet and Maxwell. He is responsible for the Employment Law Section in the encyclopaedia Accountants’ Legal Service. He has also written extensively on Criminal Procedure, and is the author of A Practical Approach to Criminal Procedure (OUP 12th ed 2008).John works as a personal tutor on JSB’s Advanced Certificate in Employment Law (ACEL).

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Testimonials

“Very participative and extremely valuable ”

— Diarmid McBride, GM-HR, EMEA,
OKI Europe

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