Employment Rights and Equality Bill Review: Navigating the Future of Workplace Legislation
This course provides a detailed review of upcoming legislation and practical guidance on the impact these will have on employers.
Tailored to your organisational needs, it ensures that businesses are prepared to meet new legal obligations and manage risks associated with compliance failures.
Whether your focus is on employment rights, preventing workplace harassment, or understanding how legal rulings affect your business, this course is designed to support organisations through the next wave of legal changes.
Course Aims
This course aims to:
- provide a comprehensive overview of the Employment Rights Bill and the Equality (Race and Disability) Bill.
- explore practical implications of upcoming legislation for employers, focusing on day-one unfair dismissal rights, flexible working, zero-hour contracts, and pay reporting.
- equip employers with knowledge about new preventative duties around sexual harassment and associated legal risks and penalties.
- review key case law developments that impact worker rights, discrimination, and whistleblowing.
Course Programme
1. The Latest on the "New Deal" for Employment Rights
- Employment Rights Bill: Understanding new rights around unfair dismissal, zero-hour contracts, and flexible working.
- Equality (Race and Disability) Bill: Mandatory ethnicity and disability pay reporting and ensuring equal pay rights.
- Timelines: When the changes are expected to come into effect and how to prepare.
- Practical Implications: What these changes mean for your workforce and organisational processes.
2. Sexual Harassment: Employer Duties
- The New Preventative Duty: How to comply with the upcoming legal requirement to prevent workplace harassment.
- Employer Responses: Current best practices and gaps to be addressed.
- Risks and Penalties: Consequences for non-compliance and strategies for mitigating risk.
3. Case Law Developments
- Recent and Upcoming Case Law: The impact of decisions around "fire and rehire," worker status, discrimination, and whistleblowing.
- Key Takeaways: Practical examples of how these rulings affect everyday employer-employee relations.
Proposed Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the key measures in the Employment Rights Bill and Equality (Race and Disability) Bill.
- Identify how these legislative changes will impact their organisation’s policies, particularly around pay equality, employee dismissal, and flexible working.
- Assess the new preventative duty for sexual harassment and the potential risks and penalties associated with non-compliance.
- Analyse recent case law developments, including ‘fire and rehire,’ worker status, and whistleblowing, and apply this knowledge to mitigate organisational risk.
Cost
In House Course
Half Day: £595
Full Day: £895
Courses run via
Zoom
Recommended maximum 10 delegates per session - up to 15 if required
Face to Face courses:
Maximum 20 delegates per session
Travel costs are in addition for face to face courses.
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