Designed for HR professionals, employers and in-house legal teams, The Employment Law Certificate will provide a comprehensive overview of key concepts, policies and practice to help you to navigate the ever-changing and complex employment law landscape.
The fully online course gives you a toolkit of information to explore common areas which arise in the workplace – including restructuring and redundancy, grievance and disciplinary issues, employment tribunal claims and sickness absence – and will make sure you are fully compliant with Employment Law.
It will also look at issues of growing significance, such as mental health and wellbeing, remote and flexible working, and discrimination and equality.
The course will look at recent employment law developments and their impact on the workplace, as well as consider future arrangements with the EU and Brexit.
Providing expert guidance and best practice advice, the course has been designed to help you to better understand and manage the employment issues you face, make sure you are remaining compliant, and preventing disputes, conflict and tribunal claims.
**Please note: access to the course will not be granted until payment has been made.**
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Course content and how the online course works
Why this course?
- Helping you to manage restructuring – including planning, consultation, employee rights, having difficult conversations, and avoiding tribunal claims
- Best practice procedures for handling workplace disputes and conflict
- Your legal obligations around supporting mental health and wellbeing – and why you should go beyond compliance
- Guidance for establishing the employment relationship – including types of workers, contracts and terms and conditions of employment
- A roundup of recent employment law changes and future legal arrangements
- Understanding the impact of Brexit on employment law and how it might affect your organisation
How does it work?
The Employment Law Certificate is fully online and designed for flexible, independent learning – you will have a year’s access to the course so you can learn at your own pace, and at times which suit you.
Delivered via our specialist online learning platform UNIQSKILLS, the course consists of training videos, written and downloadable materials, and a test at the end of each module to check your
Agenda
- Module 1
Establishing the employment relationship
- Recruitment – your legal obligations
- Employment status
- Contracts of employment
- Equal pay and gender pay gap reporting
- Maternity, paternity and adoption rights
- Module 2
Dealing with difficulties in the workplace – grievance and disciplinary
- Grievance – key principles and formal procedures
- Effectively managing disciplinary issues
- Guidance on bullying and harassment
- Preventing and addressing discrimination
- Whistleblowing in the workplace
- Module 3
Restructuring and managing termination of employment
- Redundancies – key stages and processes
- Changing terms and conditions of employment
- Handling TUPE transfers
- Unfair Dismissal
- Avoiding employment tribunal claims
- Module 4
Health, wellbeing, and managing sickness absence
- Where does the law stand on mental health?
- What more can you do to support employee wellbeing?
- Disability discrimination under the Equality Act
- Managing short and long-term sickness absence
- Module 5
New and future working practices and legal arrangements
- An overview: recent employment law developments
- Enabling remote, flexible and agile working
- Digitisation and the workforce
- EU Changes and Brexit
Testimonials
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“I would recommend this Employment Law certificate to any business looking to upskill their current in-house HR team. It is a cost-effective way to keep up-to-date with ever changing employment law, in a format which is easy to access and fit in around other work/life commitments. The trainers are also excellent - professional, knowledgeable and down-to-earth.”
Speakers
Hannah Morrison
Hannah is an employment lawyer who specialises in advising clients in the recruitment sector.
She handles a range of issues such as workplace matters (eg grievances and disciplinary procedures as well as discrimination matters) along with employment tribunal claims.
She acts for a wide range of employers across a variety of sectors including hospitality, recruitment and logistics.
She also drafts employment contracts and other policy documentation.
In addition, Hannah specialises in advising clients on data protection issues in the employment context.
Hannah has a solid background in contentious and non-contentious work and has drafted terms of business and other contractual documentation for recruitment clients and defended employers in complex tribunal cases.
Hannah joined us in 2014 and is based in our Manchester office.
Lee Jefcott
Lee is an experienced employment lawyer who handles complex employment and HR-related issues for businesses and senior executives.
He advises on highly sensitive matters such as board level terminations and business protection, including enforcing restrictive covenants, TUPE and business reorganisations.
He also handles internal investigations including discrimination and whistleblowing cases and helps businesses implement HR policies and processes.
Lee has a strong track record in both contentious and non-contentious work and has represented prominent employers at employment tribunals across the UK. In addition he advises businesses on industrial relations and dealing with trade unions.
He also guest blogs for industry publication Personnel Today and has developed innovative training for businesses on people related matters. He is a freelance lecturer for BPP Professional Development.
He is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and Eurolegal.
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