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Current trends, change in legislation and good practice all impact on your organisation. Our range of courses is designed to help you and your organisation work more efficiently

New courses
Following its success earlier this year, we have added more dates for our advanced TUPE update course. Other new courses include Tackling sickness absence and stress, Equal pay workshops, as well as a newly relaunched two-day course Welcome to the HR business good practice, Consultation: achieving business goals, and Discrimination law and practice.

Back by popular demand
Our first ever Evidence-based HR Summer School was very well received in July 2007 and will return next Summer. The labour relations seminar enters its fourth year and will focus on the Super Union, global super unions and equal pay. Our popular update course, Current developments in employment law, continues to sell out fast - places are limited so early booking is recommended. 

International
Eversheds is an international law frim, so we can draw on the expertise of our international lawyers for an introduction to international employment law courses for Spain, Italy, Germany, France and Belgium. We have added more dates to our Workforce restructuring in Europe course and continue to work with SHRM on the GPHR Certificate preparation course. 

Our full range of courses is below. If you have a specific training need that isn't addressed here, please call Nicola Pugh on 0845 497 1302 or e-mail training@eversheds.com


Event details & booking - All Subject Areas
Breakfast update: changes facing colleges and universities - implications for HR
The sector faces a number of challenges over the coming months. Changes to funding arrangements, greater collaboration between higher and further education institutions and the private sector raise a number of specific legal challenges to human resources professionals.
Complying with pension trustee requirements
The Pensions Act 2004 places significant responsibilities on pension scheme trustees.
Conducting accident investigations (for health and safety professionals)
This course will show how the HSE/Police will investigate a serious incident, and explain the different approaches taken with witnesses and suspects. It will highlight the key considerations for you if faced with an accident investigation.
Consultation: achieving business goals
This course helps HR professionals and managers to understand the duty to consult and then develop a practical approach to conduct one-to-one and collective consultation meetings which achieve desired outcomes.
Data protection: the common sense approach
This course provides an overview of the Data Protection Act and the employment Code of Practice as it relates to employment data.
Discipline, dismissal and appeal hearings - in practice
This course focuses on the hearing and the face-to-face interactions involved. Delegates should become more self-sufficient and less reliant on an HR 'script' as a prop. HR practitioners may also use the course to develop their ability to advise and coach managers.
Discipline, dismissals and grievances - the law
This course explains the legal context for discipline, dismissal and grievance issues and how to handle typical situations. We also identify the consequences if things go wrong.
Drafting and changing employment contracts
Since effective contractual change is never merely a legal issue, this course also focuses on the practical considerations and soft skills required.
Employment law breakfast briefing: is atypical becoming the norm?
A look at agency workers, flexible working and retirement, and the issues that lie ahead.
Equal pay conference
Equal pay is back on the corporate agenda. Last year, equal pay tribunal claims more than doubled. If employers are to reduce risk and enhance corporate reputation they must take an active stance on addressing inequality in pay.
Essential employment law for HR professionals (2 day)
This practical two-day course follows the employment lifecycle from entry to exit and focuses on the core areas of law and practice. Illustrations of employers good practice will be used to explain common employment law issues.
Essential employment law for line managers
Most organisations recruit or promote managers because of their success in a business function. People management skills tend to be taken for granted and HR responsibilities are seldom explained.
Handling difficult situations
This course prepares the delegate to effectively respond to, and deal with, potentially damaging, embarrassing and risky people issues that will land at their door sooner or later.
High stakes and big challenges: improving compliance in Europe
The one-day conference combines substantive workshops and interactive discussions to help in-house lawyers improve implementation of pan-European compliance.
HR Masterclass series: all you wanted to know but were too shy to ask
The Eversheds HR Masterclass series is designed to go beyond the typical lawyers’ seminar. Each session focuses exclusively on one issue, giving you a real feel for the topic and the confidence to tackle it when you get back to your workplace.
Introduction to Belgian Employment Law
This course, led by a senior Belgian employment lawyer, who has also worked as an HR professional and who is an experienced trainer, will give you an understanding of the implications of employing people in this key European jurisdiction.
Introduction to French employment law
This course is relevant to international HR managers and directors in the UK who have responsibility for employees in France. It will also be useful to managers and directors who anticipate entering the French market and who need to be aware of their responsibilities to their people.
Introduction to German employment law
This course will give you an understanding of the implications of employing people in this key European jurisdiction.
Introduction to Italian employment law
This course provides you with an overview of the implications of employing people in this key European jurisdiction and arm you with awareness of likely pitfalls so that you are not caught out!
Managing employee investigations
This course provides an understanding of the legal and best practice requirements necessary to conduct an investigation together with the skills and techniques required by the investigators.
Negotiation skills for effective collective bargaining
This course focuses on collective bargaining in the workplace, providing practical guidance and strategies that enable you to prepare and approach bargaining with confidence. The course content will be useful in other negotiation situations.
Performance-driven HR: Summer School (two days)
This summer school brings together current practical research evidence on the strategic contribution of HR. Combined with the perspective of HR consultants and an employment lawyer, these sessions will test, challenge and develop some of your people management practices. Just as importantly, it will give you new ideas and hard data which you can take away and apply to your organisation.
Planning espresso: short stimulating planning seminars for June 2008
Keeping up with planning law has never been easier. Eversheds has created a summer seminar that will give you quick but effective hits on the issues that matter. We'll boil down the information so you find out exactly what you need to know and what you need to do.
Poor performance: law and practice
This course looks at a fair and lawful process for poor performance to help people to improve.
Preparing for an employment tribunal
This course guides delegates through the employment tribunal procedure from the moment the claim is received all the way to the hearing.
Reorganisations and redundancies in Europe
This one-day course will provide you with the knowledge and skills that are needed to project manage multi jurisdictional workforce restructuring projects in Europe.
Restructuring, reorganisation and redundancy: market forces
This practical briefing is not only designed to help remind you of the law around redundancy, but will also offer good practice suggestions from HR consultants who are currently involved in large scale restructuring and redundancy programmes.
Tackling sickness absence and stress
This course looks at the legal issues surrounding sickness absence and stress and takes you through the practical measures to help you tackle them effectively and lawfully.
The Eversheds mock tribunal 2008
Sickness absence from work is at the forefront of all HR practitioners' minds. The next series of Mock Employment Tribunals follows a complaint of unfair dismissal highlighting the difficulties employers are likely to face. Are you prepared?
The new Corporate Manslaughter Offence
A full day course considering senior management responsibilities for health and safety; prosecutions of individuals and in what circumstances these are brought and good practice leadership suggestions from the Institute of Directors.
TUPE: principles and practice
This course will help you consider the consequences of TUPE in a range of scenarios including outsourcings and business sales and purchases. It considers the perspective of the outgoing employer in a TUPE transfer, the incoming employer, affected employees and the role of HR throughout.
TUPE update: trends and case law developments
This one-day update addresses the key issues raised by TUPE and will dispel some myths. Drawing on our vast experience of guiding clients through the complexities of TUPE, we will bring you up-to-date and enable you to tackle TUPE situations with greater confidence.
Update on age discrimination for HE and FE institutions
The introduction of age discrimination legislation in 2006 brought about significant changes in the way in which HE and FE institutions had to deal with all aspects of their relationships with staff, including prospective and former employees.
Wake up to the future: How corporate legal services must change
Find out how your legal function can excel in the 21st century.
What you need to know about the 2006 TUPE Regulations
The TUPE provisions changed in 2006. The revised provisions require HE and FE institutions looking at outsourcing, merger or the creation of spin out companies to up date previous good practice.
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