PROGRAMME

Right person – right job

• job descriptions and person specifications, application forms
• advertising
• do’s and don’ts of the recruitment process

Before starting work

• offers: oral and written
• references and medicals
• avoiding illegal working
• criminal convictions
• work permits and visas

Establishing good working practices – to avoid discrimination:

• race, sex, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief and gender reassignment discrimination
• disability discrimination
• direct and indirect discrimination in the recruitment process
• reasonable adjustments
• equal pay issues
• data protection issues and recruitment

Main contractual issues

• ‘employees’ versus ‘workers’
• agency workers
• fixed-term and part-time contracts
• providing a written statement of terms and conditions
• implied and express terms in a contract
• relocation
• employing non-UK nationals and the law on immigration and employment