Employment Law

Employment legislation protects the interests of you and your staff. Are you up to date with it and do your working practices comply with new and existing legislation? This intensive informative course will give you a practical understanding of current legislation and help you ensure that your procedures comply with requirements. We will also prepare you to deal with:

• The required and recommended contents of their employees’ “Written Statement of Employment Terms”
• Part time/casual/probationary staff and fixed term contracts
• Working Time regulations
• Disciplinary issues without putting your business at risk
• Issues such as intermittent absence and long term sickness
• Disciplinary and other meetings with employees
• Requests for paternal leave, adoption leave or flexible working
• Your duties in terms of current employment legislation including the Working Time regulations, Parental Leave regulations, Maternity Rights and more
• Compliance with recent legislation outlawing discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, age and religion and belief
• The employment tribunal and how to avoid it - new developments involving ACAS
• What if’s … and other eventualities

About this workshop

• This workshop will involve you in a mixture of interactive exercises and discussion.

• Our trainers are experts in their topic and deliver courses in a practical, interactive style
• The maximum number of people on a training course is 12 so that the trainer can accommodate the learning needs of each delegate
• A two course buffet lunch and unlimited tea and coffee are included in the price

Timing
Courses start at 9.30 a.m. and end at 4.30 p.m. with half an hour for lunch.

Is this the right course for me?
Yes, if you are a manager with responsibility for employing staff

Level
Introductory

About the Facilitator

Your Trainer
Catherine is a qualified paralegal in employment law and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. She has almost twenty years of experience of working in a human resources environment and has hands on experience of dealing with a wide range of employment related issues. She is an expert facilitator and delivers her training courses in a practical, easy to understand style.

Support available
If your business is located in the West of Scotland you may be eligible for a grant of up to 50% of the cost of participating in these courses. There are a number of places available which are reserved for businesses with less than 250 employees and companies must meet certain eligibility criteria.

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Options

• We can customise this course for you if you have a particular challenge in your company.  One of our specialist advisers will be happy to work on a solution with you.  If you have a group of 12 people who need the same training customised learning is a cost effective way to develop them and costs can be as little as £100 per person. Click here for more information.
• We can also provide one to one coaching in this subject area. Click here for more information