Complete Employment Law

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Maximum 12 participants 3-day interactive training and practice - with optional 4th day tribunal visit
11-13 (14) Oct 2010, 6-8 (9) Dec 2010, 15-16 (17) Feb 2011, 9-10 (11) May 2011, 8-9 (10) Aug 2011, 5-6 (7) Dec 2011
3 day course: £1,335 + VAT, 3 days + optional 4th Day Tribunal Visit: £1,570 + VAT

Complete Employment Law in brief:

This comprehensive, practical training covering all key aspects of employment law in just 3 days will provide you with authoritative, crystal-clear tuition and the opportunity to apply the law to your own policies and practices. Our participative training style and Q&A throughout ensure you will be able to apply your employment law learning directly to your workplace. Led by the UK’s top employment law specialists, you will learn how to assess your policies and procedures and advise colleagues on latest law and its implementation in line with best practice. The original "Complete Employment Law". A JSB "Bestseller" for well over 25 years.

This event is CPD accredited.

Designed for:

Personnel and HR professionals, employee relations managers, line managers, legal advisers, HR consultants

Training highlights:

  • Gain a thorough grounding in employment law
  • Assess and evaluate your policies and procedures
  • Apply employment law in your workplace through case study led training
  • Advise colleagues on latest employment law and its implementation in line with best practice

The Programme

Day One

09:30
Introduction to employment law
  • Examining the nature and focus of employment law
  • Considering the sources of employment law
  • EU law
  • Human rights
10:00
The employment relationship and employment contracts
  • The recruitment process: key dos and don'ts
  • What are the elements of a binding contractual relationship?
  • What are express and implied terms?
  • Changing contract terms
  • Continuity of employment and its importance
10:30
Employment status
  • The difference between 'employees' and 'workers'
  • Temporary workers
  • Part-time workers
  • Fixed-term workers
11:00
Coffee
11:15
Pay and working time
  • Working Time Regulations: key rights
  • Holidays and special leave
  • National Minimum Wage
  • Key issues when considering workers' pay
  • Statutory sick pay and deductions
12:00
Special contract clauses
  • Probationary periods: monitoring performance and terminating at short notice
  • Confidentiality, competition and restraints
  • Whistleblowing and its practical implications
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Grievances and discipline
  • Definitions and concepts
  • When does a 'grievance' arise?
  • Handling grievances: best practice guidance
  • Disciplinary matters: managing procedures and warnings
  • Examining the nature of formal disciplinary hearings
  • The question of 'reasonableness'
14:15
Coffee
14:30
Grievances and discipline (continued)
16:30
End of day one

Day Two

09:30
Dismissal
  • Termination including constructive dismissal
  • What are acceptable reasons for fair dismissal?
  • What are automatically unfair dismissals?
  • Misconduct outside the workplace
  • Email and internet abuse
  • Unfair dismissal - including Tribunal rules and remedies
  • Settlements and compromise agreements
10:15
Performance and absence
  • How should you deal with poor performance?
  • Managing short-term persistent and long-term continuous absence
11:00
Coffee
11:15
Redundancy
  • Defining redundancy and relating legal requirements
  • Individual and collective rights
  • How should you manage redundancies?
12:00
Employment Tribunals
  • Time limits and claim and response forms
  • Preparing for the tribunal: collecting relevant evidence
  • Documentation and the tribunal 'bundle'
  • Getting to grips with tribunal procedure
  • Dos and dont's when presenting a case
  • Employment Tribunal Regulations
Book now for the Tribunal Visit on day 4!
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Collective rights:Trade unions and industrial relations
  • Trade unions and how they work
  • Collective agreements and employee involvement
  • Recognition, rights and members
  • Disputes, strikes and members
  • The European Works Council
  • Information and consultation regulations
14:15
Tea
14:30
Transfer of undertakings
  • What is the transfer of an undertaking?
  • The new TUPE regulations
  • New obligations to provide employee liability information
  • Who transfers and what obligations transfer?
  • Changing terms and conditions and unfair dismissals
16:30
End of day two

Day Three

09:00
Registration and coffee
09:30
Health and safety at work
  • The employer's responsibilities and liabilities: common law, statute and tort
  • Protection from stress, harassment and bullying
  • Vicarious liability
  • Personal injuries and reasonable foreseeability
  • Handling stress claims
11:00
Coffee
11:15
Discrimination Law
  • Sex and race discrimination: direct and indirect
  • Equal Pay Act: examining the law and the material factor defense
  • Sexual orientation, religion and belief, disability and age discrimination: latest
  • Burden of proof
  • Getting to grips with harassment and discrimination
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Family-friendly rights and flexible working
  • Ordinary and additional maternity leave
  • Paternity leave and pay
  • Adoption rights
  • Parental leave and time off for dependents
  • Flexible working
  • Future changes
15:00
Coffee
15:15
Family-friendly rights and flexible working continued
16:30
End of day three

Day Four

Visit to an Employment Tribunal - experience an actual employment tribunal

One of our expert trainers will accompany participants to explain and discuss aspects of the actual case, highlighting procedures, tactics and relevant points of law.This is a valuable opportunity to put into context some of the law and practice learnt in the course.

You will have the chance to:

  • Gain a comprehensive overview of the tribunal process
  • Get to grips with the basics of preparing a tribunal case
  • See and hear how tribunal cases are presented in practice
  • Consolidate your learning from the first three days of the course

Client testimonials

Very good, intensive and informative

—David Nuttall, HR Director Autonomous Systems and Future Capability, BAE Systems

Excellent training, thank you! Very knowledgeable trainer, lots of good and useful experience

—Alex Markovich, HR Advisor, Shell

Great use of anecdotes and up-to-date case law - to make the learning meaningful and maintain interest.

—Jessica Duncan, Assistant Personnel Officer , East Sussex County Council

Excellent – would highly recommend to colleagues!

—Dee Simon, Personnel Officer, Mars Food UK

Excellent, funded myself, well worth the investment

—Mary Budge,

Excellent company, well presented, relevant course

—John Broadbent, General Manager Eastern Area, BAE Systems, KSA

Excellent deliverer

— Jenifer Salahuddin LLB (Hons), Faculty Manager of Full Time Curriculum, Bournemouth and Poole College

Very informative learning experience. Excellent

—Steve Hoskin, Recruitment Officer , Neopost

Excellent delivery and knowledge

—Ian Harrison, Learning and Development Manager, Cavaghan And Gray

Penny was amazing she answered all our questions, addressed all our issues, went beyond the call of duty.

—Renata Oakes, HR Manager , Barloworld Handling Ltd

Excellent course!

—Sarah Larkin, HR Business Partner, Barclays Bank

Venue details

Venue details will be confirmed shortly.

For further information on the training facilities we use, please call us on +44 (0)20 8371 7010

Trainers

Our People

Penny Macmillan

Penny Macmillan MA Chartered FCIPD is a Solicitor and has for many years specialised in employment law, with particular experience of: TUPE, unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing and drafting employment contracts, policies, procedures and handbooks. She is former Head of the Legal Department at The Race Equality Centre and now practises in her own firm.

Before qualifying as a lawyer, Penny held positions as a Group Personnel Manager for a health authority; Employee Relations Manager for a major retailer; and Personnel and Training Manager for a large catering services company. Penny is equally well qualified and experienced as a management trainer, HR specialist and lawyer. She delivers workshops and seminars on a wide range of employment law and best practice subjects and is a personal tutor on JSB’s Advanced Certificate in Employment Law (ACEL).

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Testimonials

“Very good, intensive and informative”

— David Nuttall, HR Director Autonomous Systems and Future Capability,
BAE Systems

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