Advanced Employment Law
Course
In London
Description
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Type
Course
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Level
Advanced
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Location
London
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Duration
2 Days
The only application-focused course of its kind for experienced HR practitioners who have a good understanding of employment law principles and want to build on their existing knowledge with a more detailed study of key aspects and recent developments in employment law. Suitable for: Designed for HR and personnel professionals with responsibility for employment law policy and/or its implementation. Practitioners who wish to extend the range and depth of their knowledge of practical employment law with direct workplace application.
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Course programme
09:00 - Registration and coffee
09:30 - Discrimination in the workplace
· Direct and indirect discrimination
· Sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief
· Age discrimination impact
· Pregnancy discrimination
· Equal pay issues
· Harassment and bullying - latest cases
10:45 - Coffee
11:00 - Transfer of undertakings
· New regulations in operation
· Recent case law and judicial guidance
· Contracting out and outsourcing
· Informing and consulting
· Practical business transfer issues
12:30 - Lunch
13:30 - Developments in European law
· EU 'Green Paper' - concept of flexicurity
· Fixed-term contracts
· EU anti-discrimination legislation
· National level information and consultation of workers
· EU Agency Workers Directive
· Implementation timetables
· Likely future developments
15:00 - Coffee
15:15 - Developments in European law continued
16:30 - End of day one
Day Two
09:00 - Registration and coffee
09:30 - Trends in employment protection and dismissal
· Protection of part-time, temporary, casual and agency workers
· The concept of 'worker' and the extension of employment protection rights
· Employment status - latest cases
· Remedies and effect of increase in compensatory awards
· Unfair dismissal, dispute resolution
· Statutory grievance and disciplinary procedures
· Tribunals - latest developments
10:45 - Coffee
11:00 - Human Rights
· Convention and Act
· Employment law and human rights
· Workplace privacy
· Expression, association and assembly
· Discrimination
· Remedies
12:30 - Lunch
13:30 - Employee references
· Duty to give a reference
· What the reference must say and not say
· Avoiding or limiting liability
14:30 - Privacy and data protection
· Handling employee data
· Rights of access to data
· Code of practice
· Practical steps for employers to take
· Email/internet abuse
15:15 - Coffee
15:30 - Privacy and data protection continued
16:30 - End of day two
Advanced Employment Law