Concrew Training are pleased to announce a new course specifically for staff – menopause awareness
This course is part of our 3 hour short taster course series. £595+vat for up to 14 participants.
Please enquire about delivery to larger groups. We can deliver this course, live, in a lecture style on your video conferencing platform
new course now available – Making collective consultation more productive – for employee reps, union reps and/or management
Note: Course content covers other forms of consultation too, which makes it the perfect way to to train without the fears associated with “collective consultation”
This free guide provides hints and tips on more effective recruitment and helps stimulate thoughts on development opportunities
read the guide here
Robust case notes and reports that focus on details and facts underpin robust service. They inform high quality solutions, planning and action. Secondly, when things go wrong; complaints, appeals, tribunals, litigation they provide a firm base for investigation and where necessary defence too.
Unfortunately too many records, case notes and reports are poorly written. Too often unsupported opinion dominates, whilst factual information and detail is lacking.
Writing robust records, case notes and reports is not easily but our one-day training course is a big help. Filled with hints, tips, case studies and good practice it helps people understand why defensible documentation is so important and shows them how to write in a way that is robust and more effective.
We have now updated our Equality Diversity and Inclusion training, EDI Training, to include latest legislation and changes to the “Nine Protected Characteristics”
Annual EDI Training is essential for all leaders, managers and HR teams.
Find out more HERE
It provides a raft of practical information,good practice and the do’s and don’ts in key areas, such as
In doing so it helps managers approach EDI in an effective way rather than adopt, often well intentioned but fundamentally flawed, ways of working
Not a day goes by without Sexual Harassment hitting the news.
We have updated our courses on “Sexual Harassment Awareness” and “Preventing Sexual Harassment at Work” to reflect the latest developments and legislation.
Robust policies and training, for staff and managers, alike are essential if harassment is to be stamped out and tribunal fines are to be avoided
There have been several EDI Tribunal cases reported recently, with fines in the region of £50k to £60K.
One has to ask, why in this day and age do EDI issues reach tribunal stage?
Digging deeper it appears that too many Employers may be paying only lip service to EDI and equality legislation.
It is very easy to write and publish policies and procedures BUT unfortunately that, in many businesses is where they end.
Filed away on a hard drive, left forgotten on a website. For many organisations many of their front of house policies are more about PR and appearing compliant than actually being compliant.
If a policy is to be effective is needs to be trained out to all appropriate staff. Staff need to understand what is and what is not acceptable and have the confidence to report breaches;
Managers and leaders need to understand how to respond when a breach is identified or reported.
Not acceptable here policies demand more, far more than just words on a piece of paper
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The Supreme Court has now ruled that historical holiday pay claims can be brought where there are gaps of three months or more between periods of underpayment.
This has significance for employees who have been underpaid in respect of holiday, historically. That before the Bear Scotland Vs Fulton ruling was finalised a couple of years ago.
Employers are now less able to use technical arguments to limit their liability for underpaid holiday pay claims.
Personnel Today carries a useful explanation of the issues and rulings.
Personnel Today carries a useful explanation of the issues and rulings.
https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/historical-holiday-underpayments-must-be-paid/
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The Law by smlp.co.uk used under CC BY 2.0
Concrew Training is pleased to release a range of Reference Guides for free download. No sign up, no payments just free PDF resources to download.
https://concrew-training.co.uk/free-guides
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All HR teams and Employers need to follow the outcome of the Leicester Employment Tribunal Appeal case between Maria Rooney (supported by the EHRC) and Leicester City Council.
In February 2022, the tribunal ruled that Ms Rooney was disabled by virtue of her symptoms of menopause combined with symptoms of stress and anxiety.
This ruling was appealed and a final ruling is expected within the next 14 days, this ruling will decide whether menopause symptoms can amount to a disability for the purposes of the Equality Act.
