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Module A: From Hiring to Firing – A Manager’s Guide to Legal Issues in People Management
Objective:
To present managers with a hands-on overview of their legal rights and responsibilities in people management (including discussion of actual cases)
Course Duration:
Full day training (including workshop)
Suggested Limit on Attendees:
Minimum of 10
Maximum of 15
Course Outline:
1. Introduction and Objectives
2. The Recruitment Process: What are the Pitfalls?
(a) Advertisements, applications and interviews: do’s and don’ts
(b) Anti-discrimination issues in recruitment
(c) Pre-employment screening and background checks
(d) Disclosure obligations of job applicants and employees
(e) Best practice in induction
3. The “Contract” of Employment
(a) What makes up the employment contract?
(b) What rights does an employee/manager have under a contract?
(c) How can a term of the employment contract be changed?
4. Performance Management for Success / Ensuring Policy Compliance
(a) What does the law say?
(b) What makes performance management difficult?
(c) File notes, document trails
(d) Counselling, warnings etc
(e) Work related stress – employers’ duties and responsibilities
5. Separation Management
(a) Types of separation
(b) Redundancy – what does it mean?
(c) Managing long-term injured employees
(d) Misconduct – some examples
(e) Effecting a termination of employment
6. Post-Separation Issues
(a) Employees working for competitors
(b) The litigation process: what to expect
7. OPTIONAL WORKSHOP – Identifying and solving a performance problem
8. Conclusion and Review of Objectives
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