Making and Varying Employment Contracts

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Description

  • Type

    Short course

  • Duration

    1 Day

Contracts of employment remain at the heart of the employer/employee relationship. Getting the contract right at the start is essential. But business needs change, so contracts may need to be varied. How do you avoid the legal pitfalls? This course provides you with a sound understanding of contract law and its application in the workplace, with special emphasis on handling contract variations in line with changing business needs. Suitable for: Designed forDesigned for HR and personnel professionals, employee relations managers, legal advisers and HR consultants.

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"Exceptionally informative and valuable" HR Manager - South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service

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Subjects

  • Employment Law
  • Contracts

Teachers and trainers (1)

Chris Hull

Chris Hull

Head of the School of Management and Social Sciences at St Mary’s Univ

Course programme

09:00 - Registration and coffee
09:30 - Welcome, introduction and outline of objectives

09:45 - The employment process
· Individual contracts and collective agreements
· Continuity of key rights
· Termination of employment

10:30 - Contracts of employment - the basics
· Meaning and formation of 'contract'
· Fundamentals of employment contracts
· 'Employees' and 'workers'
· Types of contract

11:15 - Coffee
11:30 - Varying contracts - the legal context
· Making the contract
· Express and implied terms
· Written particulars

12:30 - Lunch
13:30 - Changing contract terms
· Express and implied variation
· Agreed and unilateral variation
· Acceptance and non-acceptance
· Dismissal and re-employment
· Individual and collective consultation

14:30 - Special cases
· Business reorganisation and redundancy
· TUPE and changing contract terms
· Flexible working requests
· Changes to working hours

15:15 - Coffee
15:30 - Practical management issues
· Defending business needs
· Producing a 'sellable' production
· Consultation, agreement and persuasion
· Overcoming objections
· Maintaining employee communication
· Defending subsequent tribunal proceedings

16:30 - Close of training

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