Employment Law

Description: 

This highly practical course from Right Training has been specifically designed and written by an employment law expert who understands the issues faced by modern businesses of all types.
It starts as a practical update on the latest employment law, suitable for anyone in your organisation in a position involving supervision of staff, or decisions about staffing and personnel matters. This course is presented in a highly interactive style and the delegates are encouraged to bring their questions and personnel issues to the discussion. This enables them to maintain an effective well managed workforce.

Objectives: 

• an outline of each of the relevant law and staffing areas, including: what does ‘self-employed’ contractor really mean? What is the status of casual workers and those supplied by agencies?
• the matters which should be covered in an employment contract, and in what form can or should it be created
• particular statutory rights, such as the parental and dependant care leave, minimum wage conditions, holiday entitlement etc..
• the latest developments in sex and race discrimination law - how to avoid problems. It also deals with disability discrimination and ill-health dismissal issues
• unfair dismissal and redundancies - how to avoid the quagmire
• the day concludes with a full session on common practical problems and an emphasis on maintaining a contented and productive work force

Benefits: 

• empower your people with the knowledge and confidence to deal with difficult staffing matters • creates an atmosphere of concern and understanding
• reduce incidence of tribunals • avoid HR involvement by managing issues properly on the front line

Who Should Attend?: 

Managers who have a direct responsibility for managing staff. Partners also benefit from the ability to identify how many issues can be potentially dangerous - even in a professional practice, these issues happen.