Dealing with Sensitive Issues in HR

Course Content

As anyone in HR will tell you, there are many situations that arise within the workplace that may be perfectly straightforward for an experienced Employment Lawyer to provide advice on. However, when it comes to actual physically having to confront or deal with the issue concerned it can prove very difficult indeed. This course has been designed after demands from our clients who wanted to know how to effectively deal with more sensitive issues within the workplace such as Criminal convictions in and out of work, poor employee hygiene, alcohol and drug abuse, personality clashes to name but a few.

Key Topics

• Employee rights and equality
• Religion and the right to holidays
• Sexual orientation
• Age discrimination
• Monitoring and surveillance / email, cameras, vehicle trackers etc
• When must you give references
• Bullying and Harassment / dealing with complaints
• Ill health & Disability / long term sickness
• Data protection issues
• Human Rights
• Handling Bad news / dismissal, redundancy etc
• Plus much more

Related Courses

• age discrimination
• bullying in the workplace
• handling disciplinary & grievance meetings
• workplace stress