Employment Law for Business

Employment law is a critical part of every business and a topic that is constantly changing in statute with some having greater impact than others. Given the ever increasing complexity of employment legislation, it is essential that businesses are not only aware of the law but take active steps to apply it to avoid making expensive and potentially damaging mistakes.  This course offers a thorough overview of topical employment law issues as they affect the workplace and provides delegates with the confidence to take the law and use it to operate in-line with best practice.

Key Objectives

After attending this course delegates will understand:

• Complying with new employment law legislation
• Using Contracts of Employment effectively & protecting the business frompotential claims
• The critical issues facing employers
• Planning ahead for future legislation change
• Protecting the business from potential claims

Course Outline

• Understanding your responsibilities for HR
• Recognise why your people matter - working with Human Resources
• Focus on; Recruitment - selecting the right people
• Working with sensitive issues; managing the processes of redundancy, Sickness, Termination of employment and other sensitive issues
• Employment Law updates; discussing the implications of any changes in the law and case law
• Focus on; Putting equality in the workplace into practice

Key Benefits

• Confidence in understanding employment law legislation; apply back to the workplace
• Compliance with rapidly changing employment law legislation
• Comprehensive, up to date policies ensuring companies stay within the law and EU
• Avoid the distraction of handling unnecessary appeals and worse; employment tribunals where due process has not been adhered to
• Fairly treated employees, happy in their work