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11 Mar 2010

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Topic page - recruitment

Step by step recruitment
How to write a job description
How to write a person specification
How to write a job advert
Step by step interviewing
Competency-based selection
Occupational testing
How to run a simple assessment day
Step by step making a job offer
Discrimination - recruitment considerations
Data Protection - recruitment and selection
Recruitment documents

Topic page - contracts and policies

Employment status
Contracts of employment
Changing contractual terms
Restrictive covenants
Fixed-term contracts
Managing the psychological contract
Why have policies and procedures
Offer letter and contracts

Offer of employment
Statement of terms and conditions of employment
Contract of employment - apprentice
Contract of employment - fixed-term
Contract of employment - home worker
Contract of employment - jobshare
Contract of employment - key or senior employee
Casual agreement
Director's service agreement
Non-executive director's service agreement
Associate agreement
Volunteer agreement

Handbook
1. Employee handbook
2. Drivers handbook
3. Maternity, adoption, paternity and parental leave guidelines
Essential policies and procedures
1. Absence
2. Bullying and harassment
3. Disciplinary procedure
4. Equal opportunity
5. Grievance procedure
6. Health and safety
7. Health and safety rules
8. IT and computer use
9. Maternity/adoption/paternity/parental leave
10. Whistleblowing
Optional HR policies and agreements
1. Business ethics
2. Business gifts and hospitality
3. Car and vehicle
4. Career break and sabbaticals
5. Data protection
6. Diversity
7. Dress code
8. Driving on business
9. Drugs, alcohol and substance abuse
10. Environmental
11. Expenses
12. Extended leave
13. Flexible working
14. Fraud prevention
15. Home working
16. Lone workers
17. Mobile phone
18. Personal relationships at work
19. Recruitment and selection
20. Redundancy
21. References
22. Relocation
23. Retirement
24. Reward
25. Search
26. Smoking
27. Stress
28. Training and development
29. Union partnership agreement
30. Work experience
31. Working and travelling abroad
32. Working with children and vulnerable adults
33. Working with volunteers
34. Work-related functions and events
Optional H & S policies and agreements
1. Accident report
2. Display screen equipment (DSE)
3. Driving on business
4. Drugs, alcohol and substance abuse
5. Fire safety
6. First aid at work
7. Home working
8. Mobile phone
9. Personal protective equipment (PPE)
10. Smoking
11. Stress
12. Use of chemicals at work
13. Violence at work

Topic page - new starters

Checking the right to work in the UK
Foreign nationals and work permits
Taking up references
Criminal records and CRB checks
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups
Transfer of Undertakings (TUPE)
Managing TUPE transfers - transfer in
Step by step induction
Managing the probationary period

New starter documents

Topic page - during employment

Absence
1. Handling absence due to sickness or injury
2. Return to work interviews
3. Data Protection - health monitoring
4. Managing long-term absence due to ill-health
5. Handling absences other than sickness
6. Managing holidays
7. Working Time Regulations
8. Increase in statutory holidays
9. Absence documents
Consultation and communication
1. Communication
2. Consulting with your workers
3. Guide to employee consultation
4. Step by step employee surveys
5. Suggestion schemes
6. Introduction to internal communications
7. Communicating during mergers, acquisitions and times of change
8. Working with unions
9. Trade unions
10. Consultation documents
Discipline and misconduct
1. Step by step disciplinary investigation
2. Step by step discipline
3. Disciplinary action
4. Poor performance
5. Bullying and harassment at work
6. Dismissal
7. Misconduct outside work
8. Dealing with theft and fraud
9. Data Protection - employee monitoring
10. Discipline and misconduct documents
Discrimination and diversity
1. Discrimination - general overview
2. Discrimination - age
3. Discrimination - disability
4. Discrimination - race
5. Discrimination - religion or belief
6. Discrimination - sex
7. Discrimination - sexual orientation
8. Equality Bill
9. Bullying and harassment at work
10. Diversity
11. Women in the workplace
12. Flexible working
13. Flexible working schemes
14. Part-time workers
15. Equality, diversity and flexible working documents
Grievances
1. Handling grievances
2. Grievance documents
Management skills
1. Communication
2. Motivating your team
3. Retaining your team
4. Succession management
5. Managing change
6. Managing the psychological contract
7. Changing culture
8. Step by step delegation
9. Time management
10. Stress at work
11. Managing depression
12. Managing conflict
Managing your workers
1. Working with clients, contractors and other third parties
2. Working and travelling abroad
3. Secondments
4. Working with children and vulnerable adults
5. Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups
6. Personal relationships at work
7. Work-related functions
8. Business gifts and hospitality
9. Managing 'Redundancy survivor syndrome'
Managing your organisation
1. Dealing with theft and fraud
2. Whistleblowing
3. Working with clients, contractors and other third parties
4. Corporate social responsibility
5. Directors' responsibilities
6. Avoiding tribunals
7. Crisis and contingency planning
8. Extreme weather conditions
Maternity, adoption, paternity and parental
1. Maternity and adoption
2. Paternity leave
3. Parental leave
4. Time off for dependants
5. Maternity, adoption, paternity and parental documents
Working hours
1. Working Time Regulations
2. Young persons and children
3. Standby and call-out arrangements
4. Lay-off and short-time working
5. Flexible working
6. Flexible working schemes
7. Right to request time to train
8. Part-time workers
9. Job share arrangements
10. Home working
11. Career break schemes
12. Working time documents

Topic page - pay and benefits

National Minimum Wage (NMW)
Itemised pay statements
PAYE and Income Tax
Deductions from pay
Attachment of Earnings Orders
Elements of a reward package
Factors that influence pay levels
How to undertake a pay review
Job evaluation
Equal pay for equal work
Equal pay audits
Sick pay
Pension schemes - general overview
Pensions - stakeholder pensions
Pensions - Personal Accounts schemes
the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)
Pensions - occupational and personal pension schemes
Working Time Regulations
Increase in statutory holidays
Sales commission schemes
Standby and callout arrangements
Bonus schemes
Flexible (or cafeteria) benefit schemes
Childcare vouchers
Cycle to work scheme
Employee assistance programmes
Pay documents

Topic page - training and development

Step by step training and development
Step by step appraisal
360 degree appraisal
Step by step performance development
Management development
Coaching and mentoring
Talent management
E-learning
Investors in People (IIP)
Secondments
Apprentices
Right to request time to train
Succession management
Training and appraisal documents

Topic page - health and safety

Legal minimum requirements
Employment protection
Risk assessments
Safety representatives
Health and safety meetings
Accident reporting and records
Alcohol and drug abuse in the workplace
The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act
Disabled workers - health and safety considerations
Display screen equipment (VDUs)
Drivers
Fire
First aid
Working at height
Home workers
Hot temperatures
Lone workers
Manual handling
Mobile phones
Night workers
Noise
Personal protective equipment (PPE)
Pregnant workers and women of child bearing age
Smoking
Stress at work
Vibration
Workplace violence
Further advice
Health and safety documents

Topic page - ending employment

Managing leavers
Exit interviews
References
Notice periods
Dismissal
Step by step redundancy
Redundancy - legal overview
Redundancy pay - ready-reckoner
Managing 'Redundancy survivor syndrome'
Retirement - statutory procedure
Retirement
Transfer of Undertakings Regulations (TUPE)
Managing TUPE transfers - transfer out
Death in service
Employment tribunals
Tribunal claims
Compromise agreements
Arbitration
Leaver and dismissal documents

Topic page - non-employees

Employment status
Agency workers
Work experience and unpaid placements
Working with clients, contractors and other third parties
Working with children and vulnerable adults
Criminal records and CRB checks
Volunteers
Non-employee documents

Topic page - HR administration

Step by step personnel files and administration
Document retention - an introduction
Document retention
Data Protection Act (DPA)
Data protection - recruitment and selection
Data protection - employment records
Data protection - employee monitoring
Data protection - health monitoring
Administration documents

Topic page - letters and forms

HR letters and agreements
1. Absence warning
2. Absence - unauthorised
3. Adoption letters and checklist
4. Appeal letters
5. Authorisation to make deduction from pay
6. Authorisation to undertake additional, outside work
7. Career break letters
8. Change to contractual terms and conditions
9. Compromise agreement
10. Confidential disclosure agreement
11. Discipline - confirm warning
12. Discipline - confirm suspension
13. Discipline - invite to disciplinary hearing
14. Dismissal (expiry of fixed-term contract)
15. Dismissal (ill-health)
16. Dismissal (misconduct or poor performance)
17. Dismissal (some other substantial reason)
18. Dismissal (unauthorised absence)
19. Employee survey - invite to participate
20. First day reporting instructions
21. Flexible working requests
22. Grievance letters
23. Harassment - acknowledge allegation
24. Jury service - confirm details
25. Lay-off
26. Maternity letters and checklist
27. Medical reports
28. Non-disclosure agreement
29. Offer of employment
30. Pay review - confirm
31. Performance management
32. Probationary letters
33. Recruitment letters
34. Redundancy letters and form
35. Reference requests
36. Relocation repayment agreement
37. Resignation - confirm acceptance
38. Retirement letters
39. Sales commission scheme
40. Secondment - letters and agreements
41. Sick pay - expiry of payment
42. Time to train requests - letters and form
43. Tribunal - request to strike out
44. Tuition repayment agreement
45. TUPE letters and form
46. Volunteer agreement
47. Whistleblowing - acknowledge receipt of concern
48. Working Time Regulations - opt-out agreement
HR forms
1. Absence record
2. Adoption checklist
3. Application form
4. Appraisal form
5. Appraisal review preparation form
6. Authority to recruit form
7. Bank details form
8. Data access request form
9. Death-in-service checklist
10. Employee survey
11. Equipment issued record
12. Exit interview form
13. Expenses claim form
14. Flexible working requests
15. Holiday request forms
16. Home working induction checklist
17. Induction checklist
18. Induction plan
19. Interview assessment form
20. Interview expenses form
21. Job description
22. Leaver's checklist
23. Leaver's form
24. Maternity checklist
25. Maternity, adoption, paternity and parental leave guidelines
26. Parental leave record
27. Person specification
28. Personal details form
29. Personnel file checklist
30. Redundancy forms
31. Retirement request form
32. Self-certification of absence form
33. Short-list form
34. Time to train request form
35. Training evaluation form
36. Training plan
37. Training record
38. TUPE tender form
39. Working time record
HR handouts for managers
1. DOs and DON'Ts - appraisal
2. DOs and DON'Ts - discipline
3. DOs and DON'Ts - dismissal
4. DOs and DON'Ts - grievances
5. DOs and DON'Ts - probationary periods
6. DOs and DON'Ts - recruitment
7. DOs and DON'Ts - redundancy
8. DOs and DON'Ts - retirement
9. Essential employment law for managers
H & S forms
1. Accident claim - management checklist
2. Accident report form
3. Accident witness statement
4. Chemical storeroom checklist
5. COSHH assessment
6. Disability assessment questionnaire
7. DSE eye test form
8. DSE self-assessment questionnaire
9. Driver safety checklist
10. Electrical visual inspection checklist
11. Emergency procedure checklist
12. Equipment issued
13. Fire evacuation report
14. Fire safety checklist
15. Fire warden checklist
16. First aid room checklist
17. First aid kit contents
18. Home working assessment
19. Housekeeping checklist
20. Laptops - guidance for users
21. Mobile access towers (MAT) checklist
22. Mobile staff safety checklist
23. Office refurbishment safety checklist
24. Out of hours procedure
25. Pregnancy health and safety checklist
26. Procedure for ladders
27. Training record
28. Work experience checklist
29. Working at height permit to work
30. Working time record
31. Working Time Regulations - opt-out agreement

Topic page - Statistics and legislation

New business overview
Employment rights
Automatic unfair dismissal
Overview of recent and proposed employment legislation
Key employment statistics
Redundancy pay - ready-reckoner

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