HR for beginners (England and Wales)

Overview

This digital event will introduce you to the fundamentals of employing people. It maps the employment relationship from recruitment, issuing contracts, managing holidays, absence and disciplinary matters, through to ending the employment relationship.

You will also receive a helpful tool kit of sample policies and letters to use in your workplace.

The event will be delivered via Zoom, in two sessions, over two consecutive days. The duration of each session will be 3 hours.

Business need

You’ve been successful in running your business so far, but maybe now you need help hiring and managing people. Or perhaps your manager has given you the job of dealing with all things HR in your company, you are new to it and don’t know where to start.

To help, they have put together all the essentials of HR and employment relations into a convenient, digital training event.

Delivered via Zoom, the event focuses on the key elements a HR role and assumes no prior knowledge. There will be informal discussion opportunities and practical exercises throughout to encourage active delegate participation.

Day one will cover equality, recruitment and contracts of employment.

Day two will cover discipline matters, absence and ending an employment relationship.

You will also receive a digital toolkit of sample policies and letters to use in your workplace.

All delegates will receive an electronic certificate of attendance for their participation in the training.

Suitable For

Delegates from all sectors of industry including: managers, supervisors, team leaders, HR professionals, business owners, Trade Union representatives, employee representatives and individuals who wish to enhance their CPD.

Programme

Day one

Equal opportunities

• Types of discrimination and the areas which are covered by discrimination law

Recruitment 

• How to draft a job description and a person specification
• How to prepare, structure and run effective interviews
• How to assess evidence and make decisions

Contracts of employment

• How to put the main terms and conditions in writing
• Rules on pay, hours of work and holidays
• How to make changes to terms and conditionsDay two

Managing discipline

•  Dealing effectively with problems areas by following the ACAS code of practice on discipline and grievance
• Taking informal action, holding formal disciplinary meetings and dealing with employee grievances

Managing absence

• How to deal 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
• Different ways to end a contract and rules on notice and notice pay