Certificate in Employment Law

Enhance your employment law knowledge and capabilities with our professional development programme that provides both technical and pragmatic advice and skills for the workplace.

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Our Certificate in Employment law has been developed in conjunction with the Centre for Professional Legal Studies at Cardiff University.

Our programme will equip you with the expertise and capability to successfully manage all elements of the employment cycle from recruitment, absence, discipline, performance to dealing with employee grievances and dismissals. It will give you a comprehensive understanding of the law relating to whistleblowing, equality diversity and inclusion and discrimination and the legal aspects of successfully managing business change such as business transfers, restructuring/contract changes and collective redundancies.

If you manage people or need to deal with HR or employment law issues and want to be sure you’re making the right call, this programme is for you.

Certificate in Employment Law Programme

How is the programme delivered?

The programme is delivered by employment lawyers who have significant experience of advising employers on all aspects of employment law and representing them in Employment Tribunals. It is split into three in person classroom sessions of 2 days each (6 days in total) which take place over five – six months. We run up to two intakes of the programme each year – in London and Cardiff. The in-person classroom sessions cover the following topics:

Essential employment law (Days 1 & 2)
This includes contracts of employment (terms, pay, working time regulations, fixed term / part-time/irregular workers, notice and holiday pay), recruitment and employment status (employees, workers, agency workers) and family friendly rights (maternity, paternity, shared parental leave, flexible working).
Managing discipline and grievances (Days 3 & 4)
This includes managing discipline, grievances, absence, performance and dismissals and dealing effectively with Employment Tribunal claims.
Business change and discrimination (Days 5 & 6)
This includes business change (TUPE, collective redundancies, changing terms of employment) and discrimination/whistleblowing (Protected Characteristics, Equality Act 2010, Disability and reasonable adjustments, Equality Diversity and Inclusion, raising concerns and whistleblowing).

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