Effective HR assistant

Programme1. How our legal system works

2. Recruitment and selection

• An awareness of the law on race and sex discrimination
  
• Direct discrimination
  
• Indirect discrimination
  
• Victimisation
  
• Harassment
  
• The recruitment process
  
• Job descriptions
  
• Personnel specifications
  
• Drafting advertisements
  
• Dealing with agencies
  
• Communicating with applicants
  
• Checking for criminal convictions
  
• The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act
  
• Age discrimination
  
• Direct
  
• Indirect
  
• Justification
  
• Handling applications from disabled people
  
• The definition of a 'disability'
  
• Making reasonable adjustments 3. Contractual relationships - different types of contracts
  
  
  
• Self-employed vs employee
  
• Advantages of employing the self-employed
  
• Disadvantages of employing the self-employed
  
• Tests applied by the courts to determine employment status
  
• Agency staff
  
• Temporary/fixed-term contracts
  
• Definition of 'fixed-term'
  
• The package offered to fixed-term/temporary workers 4. Making the offer of employment
  
  
  
• Oral or written?
  
• The status of verbal offers
  
• The offer letter
  
• Conditional offers
  
• References
  
• Medicals
  
• Right to work in this country 5. Written statement of terms and conditions of employment
  
  
  
• When should this be provided?
  
• What should be included?
  
• Remedy if no statement is provided6. Contract terms
  
  
  
• Express terms
  
• What are they?
  
• Where can they be found?
  
• Implied terms
  
• What are they?
  
• How do they arise? 7. Issues during employment
  
  
  
• Calculating continuity of employment and applying the results
  
• Managing pregnant employees and advising on their rights to leave and pay
  
• Rights to paternity leave
  
• Investigating problems
  
• ACAS Code of Practice
  
• Statutory Discipline and Dismissal procedures:
  
• What are they
  
• Why is it important to follow them?
  
• Penalties for failure to follow the procedures
  
• How to deal with:
  
• Gross misconduct
  
• Ordinary misconduct
  
• Short and long-term sickness
  
• How to conduct a disciplinary interview
  
• Writing warning letters
  
• The importance of appeals9. Making deductions from pay
  
  
  
• When can deductions be made legally?
  
• Unauthorised deductions from payQuotes from past delegates“ A useful, interesting course delivered at just the right pace and covering all the aspects of HR needed”
  
  Julie Gray, Head’s PA/Administration Manager, Archbishop Michael Ramsey Technology College
  
  “ Excellent introduction to a variety of topics”
  
  Lorraine Hawkes, HR Assistant, GlaxoSmithKline Parmaceuticals