FREE HR and Employment Law Essentials for Owners/Managers of Small/Medium Businesses

Tuesday 30th January 2024

9:15am for 9:30am start until 12:15 pm

Denzell House, Bowdon, Altrincham

Overview:

This FREE in-person popular event will provide lots of opportunities to ask questions and will deliver broad, practical advice and tips for any business owner, manager or person responsible for HR/people management in a small or medium business (SME).

We will focus on ensuring that businesses understand the HR and Employment Law essentials on the employee journey from ‘hiring’ to ‘firing’/employee leaving and everything in between.

We will cover:

• New employment laws to be aware of and implement in 2024
• Understanding holiday pay changes for zero hours, casual workers and term time working – how holiday entitlement and pay should be calculated and latest Government changes
• ‘Self-employed, worker or employee?’ – Understand the importance of getting the employment status right of people you ‘take on’.
• Contracts of Employment – what to issue and when. Are your contracts up to date, including the latest clauses that have to be included for new employees? GDPR requirements and privacy notices?
• Discrimination risks – are you aware of where you may face risk at any stage when employing people, from recruitment through to dismissal and the 9 protected characteristics under The Equality Act 2010?
• Hybrid/Flexible Working – what does an employer have to consider? What are employees’ rights to request?
• Disciplinary and Grievance – understand the differences between capability and conduct, what could be a grievance and how to manage one. 
• Holidays – are you aware of statutory rights for holiday entitlement and how to calculate, especially for part-time, casual and zero-hours staff?
• Managing Well-being and Absence, including sickness and what rights employees have to statutory time off, e.g. maternity, paternity, emergency dependant leave.
• Fair Reasons for Dismissal – what are the 5 fair reasons for dismissal and understand what the costs could be of ‘getting it wrong’ if you receive an Employment Tribunal claim. 

How to book:

Book your FREE place HERE

Who We Are:

The HR Dept Trafford & Warrington is an award-winning HR consultancy business, providing outsourced HR to small and medium sized companies across a wide range of sectors.  The team provides pragmatic and commercial HR support, from contracts of employment, employee handbooks, policies, advice on disciplinary and grievance matters and all professional HR activities, through to a fully retained and insured outsourced HR service.

Presenter

Jill Bottomley – FCIPD, BSc (Hons) – Owner/Director of the HR Dept Trafford and Warrington
Jill is a highly experienced HR professional, with 35 years’ strategic and operational expertise. She holds a degree in Management and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

Based at Denzell House in Altrincham, Jill leads the award-winning HR Dept Trafford and Warrington team, delivering outsourced HR, training and consultancy services to SMEs.

Jill is regularly invited by the CIPD to attend national roundtables, representing the ‘HR voice of SMEs’, contributing to recommendations made to Government and national policy proposals. She also writes and reviews people management guides.

Jill sits as a voluntary Director on the Board of the Hamblin Education Trust (Altrincham Grammar School for Boys and North Cestrian School) and a Governor on the Board of the Trafford College Group.