NI Essentials of Employment Law - Special Offer
The Essentials of Northern Irish Employment Law online course is specifically designed to give attendees a thorough grounding in the main components of Northern Irish employment law. With so many changes taking place in today’s workplaces, including hybrid and remote working, an understanding of core employment laws is now more important than ever before.
This is an interactive 2 x half day online event, delivered by a team of highly experienced employment law experts. The sessions will be supported by a comprehensive pack of notes on Northern Irish employment law as well as a number of practical exercises throughout the sessions to help enforce learning. The online sessions will also be complemented with access to a number of additional e-learning programmes aimed to help supplement attendees’ understanding of Employment Laws in Northern Ireland.
What are the learning outcomes?
By the end of this course attendees will:
- Have a basic understanding of the key points and principles of employment law in NI and will ‘know what they don’t know’.
- Understand the importance of seeking HR guidance at the appropriate time.
- Understand the concept of natural justice in disciplinary and grievance procedures.
- Understand the importance of following organisational policies and procedures.
- Be able to understand and handle common workplace scenarios, having learnt through worked examples.
What will be covered?
- Basics of an employment contracts (including the implications of implied terms)
- Working Time and Leave
- Disciplinary procedures and performance management
- Fair and unfair dismissals (including Employment Tribunal basics)
- Grievances
- Protected disclosures (whistleblowing)
- Equality & Dignity at work
Who is this course for?
Managers, Supervisors, Team Leaders, HR Professionals, Business Owners, Trade Union Representatives and Employee Representatives.
Additional Learning Aids
In addition to attending the live sessions with our experts, attendees will have exclusive access to the following e-learning programmes to complete in their own time:
- Whistleblowing Awareness in the Workplace
- GDPR/Data Protection in the Workplace
- Diversity & Inclusion in the Workplace
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AREL attendees special price: £345
Programme
DAY 1: Christine Swail
9:30am |
Welcome & Introduction Today’s sessions will be lead by Christine Swail |
9.35am |
Contracts of Employment |
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Sources of contract terms:
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10.05am |
Q&A |
10.15am |
Working Time |
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Working Time Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016
Including 5 mins Q&A |
10.45am |
Comfort Break |
11.00am |
Disciplinary & Performance Management |
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Disciplinary theory and practice
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11.30am |
Case Study: Understanding how the LRA Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures apply in practice.This case study looks at all aspects of the disciplinary process to include:
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12noon |
Screen Break |
12.10am |
Feedback Time |
12.20am |
Workplace Grievances |
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Grievance theory and practice
Record keeping. |
12.50pm |
Q&A |
1pm |
CLOSE |
DAY 2: Jason Elliott BL
9.30am |
Welcome back & IntroductionEva Toal, Legal Island Today’s sessions will be lead by Jason Elliott BL |
9.35am |
Protected Disclosures (whistleblowing) |
When a grievance is not ‘just’ a grievance
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10.05am |
Scenarios: grievance or whistleblowing? |
10.30am |
COMFORT BREAK |
10.45am |
Equality Law & Dignity at Work |
Dignity, Fairness, Respect and EqualityThe ‘protected characteristics’:
Types of discrimination:
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11.15am |
Case Study: sexual harassment in the workplace – ‘banter’ or harassment? |
11.45am |
Feedback Time |
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Fair and Unfair Dismissals |
12noon |
Fair v unfair
Issuing a claim – length of service, tribunal time limits, early conciliation, and burden of proof. |
12.45pm |
Case study: Is this dismissal fair or unfair? Why? What are the potential costs? |
1pm |
Feedback time |
1.15pm |
CLOSE |
Testimonials
Presenters
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Jason Elliott Lecturer in Law and Barrister
Ulster University
Jason Elliott was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 2013 and is the Associate Head of School of Law at Ulster University. As a practising barrister, he has developed a largely civil practice representing individuals, companies and public bodies in litigation. This covers a wide range of areas including personal injuries, wills and employment law. In terms of employment law, he has represented both applicants and respondents in the Industrial Tribunal. At Ulster University, Jason lectures extensively on the civil areas of practise such as Equity and Trusts and delivers employment law lectures for both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
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Christine Swail
Christine is Director and Co-Founder of People Management Solutions, an award-winning HR Consultancy with offices in Belfast and Dungannon. Christine works with small to medium sized organisations putting best practice HR in place as well as working with larger multi-nationals on specific HR projects and complex workplace disputes. Christine has worked in HR throughout Ireland for over 25 years with some of the leading and most innovative companies. Key areas of expertise include workplace investigations, mediation, employee relations and HR related training. Christine was recently awarded the CIPD NI HR Consultant of the Year award.