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Webinar - Conducting Employment Investigations
This webinar will show how to plan and successfully execute an investigation, the legal framework and best practice for carrying out an investigation and will also give information on dealing with difficult issues.
Revised Code of Practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures - Public Consultation Exercise
Thursday 6th February 2014
Advertising the job
An employer has an obligation to ensure that recruitment advertising is carried out in a non-discriminatory manner.
Disciplinary procedures
Disciplinary procedures are used for dealing with problems with employees' conduct or their performance, which could lead to warnings or dismissal.
Disciplinary or grievance hearings
Workers have the right to take paid time off during working hours to accompany fellow workers employed by the same employer to certain disciplinary and grievance hearings.
Webinar - Managing Sickness Absence
This webinar provides an overview on how to manage sickness absence in the workplace. It covers the types and causes of sickness, ways of measuring sickness absence, including policy and procedure considerations. It will provide you with best practice skills and techniques to effectively and efficiently manage sickness absence in the workplace.
Discrimination
Employers have a legal duty to ensure that they do not treat an individual less favourably on any grounds related to their age, gender, marital status, disability, race/nationality, sexual orientation, religious belief or political opinion.
Industrial tribunals
To make a claim to an industrial tribunal for unfair dismissal, in most circumstances employees will need to have worked continuously for the organisation for one year. There are other types of claim, for example regarding unpaid wages, holiday entitlements or discrimination, which do not require one year's continuous service.
Steps to resolve
When there is an issue in the workplace, employers and employees have a number of options and steps they can take to resolve it, ranging from informal conversations to formal processes and procedures.