Legal Skills: Employment Law (Advanced)

Course Overview

This course builds on 'Essentials of Employment Law' and provides a more detailed understanding of current employment law, enabling you to protect yourself and your organisation from costly and damaging legal claims

Audience

HR/Personnel specialists and line managers who require detailed employment legislation knowledge

Skills Gained

Delegates will learn:

• The ability to attract the best people by creating equality at your place of work
• Reassurance that your business complies with legal obligations relating to privacy and data protection
• The skills to keep your company out of employment tribunals

Course Outline

• Employment status - who is protected by UK statute?
• The employment contract - statutory provisions, express and implied terms
• Restrictions imposed by the contract
• Changing the contract
• Data protection at work
• Ex-offenders
• Unlawful discrimination
• Race, sex, disability, part-time working - statutory protection and best practice, plus the European dimension
• Equal pay
• Health and Safety - the essentials
• Workers from overseas
• The Public Interest Disclosure Act
• The law and pay, including National Minimum Wage
• Maternity and pregnancy rights
• The working time regulations
• Parental Leave and Time Off for Dependants
• Handling grievances, discipline and appeals
• Dismissal and termination, including redundancy
• Trade union recognition
• Transfer of Undertakings (TUPE)
• Intercepting communications
• The Human Rights Act
• Stakeholder pensions
• Claims to enforce rights at work
• And coming to a tribunal near you...!

Legal Skills: Employment Law (Advanced) / AEL