Christmas Parties: Mitigating and handling incidents, altercations and harassment
In this article, Employment Associate Chris Dobbs outlines how employers can mitigate, prevent and handle incidents, altercations and harassment at christmas parties.
Advice for business
At Frettens, our bright Employment Team offer specialist, tailored training courses.
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Managers should have some skill and responsibility for management of staff who work under them. Regularly, people are promoted for being good at their job but without having the new skillset required to run a team or manage their new junior staff.
The courses we offer are designed to help managers, new and experienced, develop the skills which many organisations are increasingly seeing as part of management’s role: disciplinary matters, performance reviews, handling workplace investigations. We also offer broader courses covering key HR topics and the opportunity to experience some of the work which goes in to a Tribunal hearing.
Our courses address various issues that employers may face on a day-to-day basis. They are designed to:
You'll find more detail below about the individual full day and part day courses that we offer:
Part Day Courses
Introduction to Disciplinary Issues
This half-day session explores the key points, methods and good practice for managing disciplinary issues in the workplace. During this course, attendees will gain experience through an interactive case study of:
Introduction to Managing Poor Performance at Work
This half-day session looks at ways of handling poor performance in the workplace. The focus for this training is on remedying the problem and working to avoid workplace inefficiency, resentment, grievances and possible legal claims. Attendees will explore:
Introduction to Workplace Investigations
This session explores in its first part the general principles of any kind of workplace investigation and the second half on practical application of those skills. Through an interactive case-study, attendees will learn about:
Introduction to Equality and Discrimination
For anyone who needs a solid overview of discrimination law and the provisions of the Equality Act whether they’re new to HR and management or due a refresher. This session uses practical case studies and real cases to explore:
Introduction to Handling Sickness Absences
This part day course is designed to introduce attendees to the effective management of absences due to sickness whether intermittent, long-term or disability related. Through the use of case studies, attendees will learn about:
Handling a Redundancy Process
This half-day course is designed to provide an overview of the legal requirements and practical steps for handling a workplace redundancy situation. Attendees will explore the legal principles and apply them to an on-going case study to learn about:
Workplace Grievances
This half-day course explores the options and management of workplace disputes including those between employees and where employees have complaints about the business or management. Attendees will use case studies to explore:
Full Day Courses
Essential Employment Law - Introductory Level
This introductory course is intended to help give managers new to HR and people management an overview of the legal knowledge and skills they need to run a team. It explores the six main topics they are likely to be asked to handle through an exploration of the law and practical case studies to implement the learning.
Each topic runs for around 45 minutes to an hour keeping the session focussed on the most common issues in manageable chunks. The topics and content can be tailored to suit the business by referring to their own policies.
During the day, attendees will learn about:
Employment Law for Managers - Intermediate Level
This step-up course is designed to address some of the more contentious issues which may be encountered in a workplace where a greater deal of management experience and knowledge may be required. This course builds on either existing knowledge or our introductory course to boost confidence in handling more complex issues.
It also touches on the role and procedure of Tribunal to help prepare participants for their potential need to appear as a witness for the business.
Employment Law for Managers - Advanced Level
This course buildings on pre-existing knowledge of employment law and HR issues either from delegates own experience or previous courses and therefore best suited to directors, senior leaders and in-house HR staff.
The course explores some of the more unusual situations, challenging staff issues and legally complicated matters which will hopefully only be encountered more rarely.
Workplace Discrimination
Focussing on the fundamentals of issues which may arise under the Equality Act including an in-depth exploration of the protected characteristics, situations where claims may arise, employer liability and management tips and tricks.
Through discussion and practical case studies, attendees will learn about:
Tribunal Experience - Full Day
This interactive session will give participants the opportunity to experience some of the Tribunal processes and procedures through a case study around an unfair dismissal.
While not intended to perfectly replicate the Tribunal setting, this session gives participants or other members of the company have the opportunity to play the role of the claimant and the employer’s witnesses as well as experience both sides of cross-examination before giving their view on the potential outcomes.
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One Hour Online Courses
We also offer one hour online courses, which are designed to provide either an overview of a particular aspect of daily HR issues or as a refresher for those who have undertaken more substantial training or have more practical experience to refresh or update.
Courses are delivered using an online platform live and are primarily presentation style but with opportunities to ask questions and address specific issues in the workplace.
You can sign up to our email list here, to be notified of upcoming courses.