25 March 2010
Industrial tribunals are frightening for the uninitiated and far more formal than they were intended to be when created. Participants who fail to prepare might as well prepare to fail, as the saying goes. This workshop is a realistic mock tribunal designed with in experienced employers and other witnesses in mind.
01 April 2010
Nobody should like doing it, but discipline is a part of working life. Managers who get the process wrong create problems and costs. This event shows you how to operate procedures appropriately and how to boost performance.
21 April 2010
Employment Law in the Education Sector - Getting the Best from your Staff
22 April 2010
Northern Ireland's leading newspaper has teamed up with Northern Ireland's leading HR and employment law training provider to produce what we think will be the premier HR Conference in Northern Ireland - this year and every year.
13 May 2010
Many organisations have employees in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. A common misconception is that employment law in both jurisdictions is broadly similar. In fact in many areas the law relevant to the workplace (including redundancy and lay-off entitlements) is very different.
13 May 2010
The public sector is a very different animal to the private sector. It is governed by different standards, different laws, and different rules and has a different culture. Public sector managers don’t need to know much about many employment laws but they need to know about the ones that impact directly in Northern Ireland. And they need to know about other laws that impact on how they do their work.
25 May 2010
The public sector gets bad press regarding performance issues such as absence, failure to meet targets, take responsibility, be dynamic etc. However, there are things that managers can do to improve performance and motivation.
27 May 2010
Poor investigation skills lead to poor decisions and outcomes. This is a highly interactive programme that includes trainer-led input, practical exercises, role plays, group discussions and case studies to equip you in delivering professionally competent workplace investigations.
08 June 2010
Some absence from work is inevitable and necessary. Too much or the wrong kind of absence is not. Employers need to control absence levels – but to do that they need to understand why it occurs and focus on the areas in which they can have a real impact. It is particularly important during these tough economic times, when staffing levels are low and stress levels are high, that employers get to grips with absence. And we now have a new phenomenon – the interaction of holidays and sickness absence and the possibility of employees re-designating one type of absence for another.
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