Overview
This practical, interactive workshop equips managers and supervisors with the essential HR and employment law knowledge they need to lead confidently and compliantly.
Designed to translate organisational policies into everyday practice, the programme focuses on real-world scenarios, clear decision-making frameworks, and the practical skills managers require to handle people issues professionally and lawfully.
Whether your organisation is aiming to strengthen consistency, reduce risk, or build managerial confidence, this workshop provides a grounded, accessible, and highly engaging learning experience.
Workshop Content
This bespoke workshop is available as a half-day, one-day or two day programme, tailored to your organisation’s HR policies, procedures, and priorities.
Depending on the chosen duration, the workshop will explore some or all of the following areas:
The Equality Act 2010
- The nine protected characteristics
- Recognising discrimination: direct, indirect, by perception, and by association
- Identifying discrimination arising from disability and the duty to make reasonable adjustments.
- Occupational requirements and positive action.
Key Employment Legislation
- Right to work requirements.
- Maternity, paternity, parental, neonatal and dependent leave.
- Flexible working requests.
- Managing stress at work.
Contracts and Employment Status
- Continuous, fixed-term, freelance, casual and flexible contracts
- Legal considerations and organisational responsibilities.
Performance Management
- Managing capability concerns
- Handling sickness absence fairly and consistently
- Addressing misconduct and gross misconduct
- Understanding dismissal processes and legal risks.
Harassment and Bullying at Work
- Defining and recognising harassment and bullying
- Requirements under the Equality Act 2010, Sexual Harassment Preventative Duty (October 2024) and Employment Rights Act (October 2026)
- Identifying overt and covert behaviours
- Effective and legally sound approaches to prevention and intervention
Grievances and Appeals
- How to handle grievances professionally and constructively
- Ensuring fairness, transparency and procedural compliance.
What Will Managers Learn?
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Understand their responsibilities within the organisation’s HR policies
- Apply HR procedures confidently and consistently
- Recognise early signs of issues and act before problems escalate
- Avoid common legal pitfalls when managing people
- Identify which matters they can handle independently and when to seek HR support.
Course Tutors
Josie Hastings, an employment relations expert.
