A practising Employment Law Solicitor with 30 years’ experience will take you through the pitfalls of employment law and HR guidance.
On this course you will learn about:
Basics of Employment Law
Recruitment
- Drafting a job description and a person specification.
- Preparing, structuring, and running effective interviews
- Assessing evidence and make decisions
Contracts of Employment
- What is a contract of employment
- Written statement of main terms and conditions of employment
- Rules on pay, hours of work and holidays
- Understanding Employer contributions (NI, Pension)
- How to make changes to terms and conditions
- Policy and Procedure writing
- Data protection/processing data
Equality, diversity and Inclusion
- The types of discrimination and protected characteristics
Managing absence
- Dealing fairly and effectively with unauthorised absence, short term illness and long-term sickness, through an absence policy
Ending the employment relationship
- When is a dismissal fair and when might it be unfair?
- Ending a contract and rules on notice and notice pay
The Essentials of Payroll Processing, including:
- Understanding how tax codes and NI table letters are allocated
- Calculate gross pay, gross taxable pay, and gross NI’able pay
- Calculate the resulting gross to net calculation
- Understand how data is reported through Real Time Information (RTI)
- An overview of the legislative framework relating to Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), The Apprenticeship Levy and Student Loans