EMPLOYMENT LAW
Employment Law Update

Course Programme

• Welcome and introduction
• • Setting objectives for the day
  Agency Work
  
  • The Directive on Agency Work
  • Proposals for implementation
  • Timetable and key implications
  Holiday and Sickness absence
  
  • The implications of the ECJ decisions in Stringer and Pereda
  • When does holiday entitlement get carried over to the next year?
  Unfair dismissal
  
  • The status and implications of the Acas Code
  • Using informal procedures
  • Employees refusing to cooperate
  • Constructive dismissal and grievances
  • Redundancy selection and consultation
  • The right to be represented
  Flexible working
  
  • The coalition government's proposals for extending the right
  • What does the right really amount to?
  • The discrimination law backing up the right to request flexible working
  Transfer of Undertakings
  
  • Recent cases on service provision change
  • Consultation rights in connection with a transfer
  • The effect on collective bargaining and recognition
  The Equality Act
  
  • Key reforms to discrimination law
  • Problems to watch out for
  • The timetable for implementation
  Discrimination Case law round-up
  
  • Latest case law on key areas of discrimination including direct and indirect discrimination, harassment, victimization and equal pay
  Disability Discrimination
  
  • Defining disability
  • Discrimination 'arising from' a disability under the Equality Act - and why it matters
  • The duty to make reasonable adjustments
  • Asking questions about health
  Religion and Belief discrimination
  
  • Separating belief from practice
  • Indirect discrimination and religious observance
  • Is there a conflict between religion and sexual orientation?
  Fit notes
  
  • Experience so far - was the fuss worth it?
  Close of Course