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This presentation is designed to provide advice and guidance on the basic and most critical aspects of employment practice in a simple, straightforward and understandable manner. In the first part of the seminar you will be provided with a clear overview of your duties and responsibilities as an employer as well as your rights.

The most common enquiry made by employers when seeking employment law advice is how to handle absence on ill health grounds; this issue is dealt with in the second half of the presentation.

 

Employment Legislation

• Overview of current legislation
• Recruiting, employing and dismissing staff
• Health & Safety aspects of employment
• Full-time, part-time, contract staff – are there different obligations?

Managing Sickness Absence in the Workplace

• Knowing how to deal with employee absence on ill health grounds
• Managing employee absence effectively
• Learning how potentially to minimise employee absence on ill health grounds
• Identifying the key legal principles relating to the management of ill health absence

Explaining the basics of disability discrimination

 

Speaker:  Russell Brown. Partner at Glaisyers Solicitors. Russellis Head of the Employment Team at Glaisyers Solicitors acting exclusively in the field of employment law. He advises clients on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious employment issues. Russell regularly contributes to HR publications, is responsible for the provision of employment training to clients and speaks to various groups and organisations including the BBC and SKY television. In 2006 Russell became the first solicitor to be accredited by RIBA to deliver Employment Law seminars.