Employment Law & Training Services

Who will present?

Roger Phillips is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and a former Personnel & Training Director of such Companies as B & Q plc, Toys R Us (UK) and C & J Clark Ltd. He has been a continuous Member of the Employment Tribunals in England and Wales since 1989. He formed the small Somerset-based strategic HR Consultancy, Action Resources Ltd., twelve years ago with his wife, Janet. Action Resources specialises in providing HR and training solutions for small companies and the not-for-profit sector. Roger Phillips is known for his highly pragmatic solutions to HR and people issues.

Thinking ahead – employing people for a successful business

An organisation is only as good as its people. Workshop input includes:

  • understanding an employer’s legal obligations to employees (including anti-Discrimination legislation)
  • developing a “fit-for-purpose” Contract of Employment (a Statement of Terms and Conditions of Employment and a set of Grievance/Disputes and Disciplinary/Appeals Procedures) that give you the flexibility and commitment that the organisation will need going forward
  • avoiding recruitment pitfalls and how to draft a Job Description, Person Spec. and an Application Form
  • performance managing your new staff through role definition (of objectives/expectations/outcomes/timeframes)
  • clarifying responsibilities and accountabilities, relationships and interactions;  avoiding “job overlap”; using Customer Care as the flip-side to positive employee relations
  • managing and monitoring individual contributions to success + absence & attendance records;  managing and controlling people costs
  • motivating and rewarding for success; creating and sustaining an efficient, professional and dedicated workforce
  • generating time to run the business strategically; minimising down time on staff fire-fighting


Improving Employee Performance in Difficult Times

An organisation is only as good as its people.

Workshop input includes:

  • retaining an up-to-date Statement of Terms and Conditions of Employment and set of Grievance & Disputes and Disciplinary Procedures: i.e. a fit-for-purpose contract of employment
  • performance managing your staff through definition of objectives/expectations/outcomes/timeframes: i.e. role definition
  • retaining those you want and losing those you don’t;   understanding your people
  • clarifying responsibilities and accountabilities, relationships and interactions;   avoiding “job overlap”
  • using Customer Care as the flip-side to positive employee relations
  • managing and monitoring individual contributions to success + absence & attendance records;   managing and controlling people costs
  • motivating and rewarding for success;  creating and sustaining an efficient, professional and dedicated workforce
  • generating time to run the business strategically; minimising down time on staff fire-fighting


Making Employment Law  work for YOU………..

Course Background

Action Resources Limited (ARL) takes a somewhat basic approach to employment law training.  Far from regarding the requirements of UK employment legislation as a potential drag on organisational performance, ARL encourages attendees to utilise the rules and regulations in a positive and proactive way – it is less important to understand the detail of the legislation (what we call the “legal” approach) than it is to know how it may be used to create and sustain competitive advantage (the “pragmatic” approach).  We place the emphasis on developing a contract of employment fit for purpose for YOUR unique business.

What will you learn?

This is a 3-hour Workshop (available “in house” if you wish) – limited to a maximum of ten attendees in order to personalise the content as much as possible – and includes:

  • where UK employment law has come from and where it is going;
  • what you absolutely have to know………..and what you don’t;
  • using contracts of employment, Grievance & Appeals and Disciplinary Procedures to management advantage;
  • understanding where you are vulnerable to discrimination claims;
  • case-study material to illustrate the points being made;
  • a Q & A session;
  • the development of an action-plan.

 

Who should attend?

Entrepreneurs, business proprietors and their management teams and anyone with responsibility for PEOPLE.