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EMPLOYMENT LAW, HR AND HEALTH & SAFETY TRAINING

Knowledge is power: power to deal with the issues confronting you on a day to day basis. Law At Work's highly effective training programmes have been designed to empower you.

TRAINING PROGRAMME 2010 – 2011

Our 2010 – 2011 programme comprises four kinds of event, including two evening Mock Employment Tribunals, scheduled for November 2010 and May 2011, monthly morning Focus seminars which will look at a variety of areas which our clients have told us they want to know more about, three 90-Minute Briefings providing a sharp (and entertaining) overview of key areas where the law is changing, and our regular employment law and health & safety Update Seminars.

We will be updating the content of this page throughout the year as the final details of sessions become available, so you may want to revisit this page from time to time to make sure you don’t miss something important.

We will also be sending out a monthly email with details of sessions dut to take place in the following six weeks. If you haven’t already subscribed to LAWmail, you might want to do so now to make sure you get early notification of forthcoming events. Subscribe here.

THE IN FOCUS SERIES

THE 90 MINUTE  BRIEFING SERIES

EMPLOYMENT LAW UPDATES

HEALTH & SAFETY UPDATES

MOCK TRIBUNALS

FOCUS ON PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

In the current climate all organisations are striving to achieve peak performance. That requires every member of staff to play at the top of their game. There are many methods that organisations can adopt and refine to ensure that they hit the right spot, every time.

This two and a half hour session will cover recruitment, induction, performance measurement and appraisal, identifying and tackling sub-standard performance at an early stage, informal performance management techniques, when and how to commence formal processes, how to hold difficult conversations with employees, and how to manage dismissal if all else fails.

The session will be ideal for general and line managers looking to add to and refresh their knowledge. It will also benefit HR managers seeking to develop the skills and knowledge in this area. The details are as follows:

Refreshments will be available from 9.00 am on both days, and there will be a 30 break in the middle of the session. Places cost £50 inclusive of VAT.

To book a place please email seminar@lawatwork.co.uk making clear which session you would like to attend. Please include the names of all delegates, a telephone number, and a postal address for invoicing.

FOCUS ON HANDLING GRIEVANCES; AVOIDING CONSTRUCTIVE DISMISSAL

Sometimes the first warning you get of a problem at work is an employment tribunal application form, telling you a member of your staff has left and is complaining of constructive dismissal. Whether the allegations concern bullying, overwork, a change to working conditions, or management (mis)behaviour, the issue could nearly always have been nipped in the bud at an early stage if the employee had raised a grievance.

We often think of grievances – and the people who raise them – as a nuisance. They certainly take up management time. But the whole point of grievance procedures is to deal with problems at an early stage. Sometimes grievance have no basis to them whatsoever. Sometimes they reveal that something has gone badly wrong, and give management an opportunity to put matters right, quickly and firmly.

This two and a half hour session will deal with spotting potential grievances at an early stage, investigating them fully, dealing with them fairly, and how they interact with disciplinary procedures. It will also look at recent trends in constructive dismissal, and, drawing on the case law, will set out how to prevent a grievance turning into a tribunal claim, and what you have to prove if you end up facing a constructive dismissal claim.

The session will be ideal for general and line managers looking to add to and refresh their knowledge. It will also benefit HR managers seeking to develop the skills and knowledge in this area. The details are as follows:

Refreshments will be available from 9.00 am on both days, and there will be a 30 break in the middle of the session. Places cost £50 inclusive of VAT.

To book a place please email seminar@lawatwork.co.uk making clear which session you would like to attend. Please include the names of all delegates, a telephone number, and a postal address for invoicing.

90 MINUTE BRIEFING ON THE EQUALITY ACT 2010

The Equality Act was slipped onto the Statute Book shortly before the general election. It wasn’t clear for several weeks following the election whether the coalition government would implement its provisions, and some of those scheduled for next year remain in doubt.

The main provisions dealing with individual rights, however, are expected to come into effect in early October. The Act brings together all the laws which currently deal with all aspects of discrimination, including gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage, pregnancy and maternity, and gender reassignment.

But as well as bringing existing law together, a variety of new rights are being introduced, extending protection from harassment, making discrimination by association unlawful, and changing the law relating to victimisation, among others.

This 90-Minute Briefing has been designed to give all managers a solid overview of what they need to know to ensure they stay on the right side of the law.

A light breakfast or lunch will be available 30 minutes before the advertiesed starting time noted above. Places cost £25 inclusive of VAT.

To book a place please email seminar@lawatwork.co.uk making clear which session you would like to attend. Please include the names of all delegates, a telephone number, and a postal address for invoicing.