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KEY DOCUMENTS
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Contracts of employment
Employee handbook
Key employment statistics
Recent/proposed employment legislation (GB)
POLICIES AND HANDBOOKS
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Absence reporting and sick pay
Additional work
Bullying and harassment
Business ethics
Business gifts and hospitality
Career break and sabbaticals
Car and vehicle
Data protection
Disciplinary procedure
Diversity
Dress code
Drivers' handbook
Driving on business
Drugs, alcohol and substance abuse
Environmental
Equal opportunity
Expenses claim
Extended leave
Flexible working
Fraud prevention
Grievance procedure
Health and safety
Health and safety rules
Home working
IT and computer use
Lone workers
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental
and dependant leave
Mobile phone
Personal relationships at work
Recruitment and selection
Redundancy
References
Relocation
Retirement
Reward
Search
Smoking
Stress
Training and development
Union partnership agreement
Whistleblowing
Work experience
Working and travelling abroad
Working with children
and vulnerable adults
Working with volunteers
Work-related functions and events
FORMS
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Absence record
Adoption letters and checklist
Application
Appraisal
Appraisal review preparation
Authority to recruit
Authorisation to make deduction(s) from pay
Bank details
Data access request
Death-in-service checklist
Equipment issued
Exit interview
Expenses
Flexible working request
Holiday requests
Home working induction checklist
Induction checklist
Induction plan
Interview assessment
Interview expenses claim
Job description
Leaver checklist
Leaver's report form
Maternity checklist
Maternity, adoption, paternity, parental
and dependant leave guidelines
Parental leave record
Person specification
Personal details form
Personnel file checklist
Pre-employment health questionnaire
Recruitment - short-list form
Redundancy letters and forms
Retirement letters and forms
Self-certification of absence
Time to train request letters and form
Training evaluation form
Training and development plan
Training record
Turnover analysis
Working Time record
RECRUITMENT LETTERS
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Acknowledge speculative application
Holding letter
Invite to interview
Invite to 2nd interview
Offer of employment
Reference request: employer
Reference request: education
Reference request: personal
Unsuccessful applicant: not shortlisted
Unsuccessful applicant: after interview
LETTERS
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Also see RECRUITMENT above
Absence - confirm warning
Absence - unauthorised
Adoption letters
Appeal letters
Authorisation of additional, outside work
Career breaks
Change to contractual terms and conditions
Compromise agreement
Confidential disclosure agreement
Disciplinary warnings
Discipline - confirm suspension
Discipline - invite to disciplinary hearing
Dismissal (misconduct or poor performance)
Dismissal (ill-health)
Dismissal (expiry of fixed-term contract)
Dismissal (some other substantial reason)
Employee satisfaction survey
Flexible working requests
Grievance letters
Harassment or bullying - acknowledge allegation
Jury service - confirm details
Lay-off letter
Maternity letters
Medical reports
New starter - first day reporting instructions
Non-disclosure agreement
Pay review - confirm details
Performance management
Paternity letters and form
Probationary letters
Redundancy letters and forms
Reference requests
Relocation repayment agreement
Resignation - confirm acceptance
Retirement letters and forms
Sales commission scheme
Secondment - letters and agreement
Sick pay - expiry of payment
Time to train request letters and form
Training repayment agreement
Tribunal claim - request to strike out
TUPE letters
Volunteer agreement
Whistleblowing - acknowledge receipt of concern
Working Time Regulations - opt-out agreements
HEALTH AND SAFETY
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Accident reporting and records
Alcohol and drug abuse in the workplace
Asbestos
Blood-borne viruses
Corporate Manslaughter Act
COSHH Regulations
Disabled workers
Display screen equipment (VDUs)
Driving on business
Electricity at work
Employee responsibilities
Fire
First aid
Further advice
Home workers
Legal minimum requirements
Legionella
Manual handling
Lone workers
Mobile phones
Night workers
Noise
Occupational health services (OHS)
Personal protective equipment (PPE)
Portable electrical appliances
Pregnant workers and
women of child-bearing age
Risk assessment
Road Transport (Working Time) Regulations
Safety representatives
Slips, trips and falls
Smoking
Vibration
Working at height
Working in hot temperatures
Workplace violence
LEGAL OVERVIEWS
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Discrimination:
- general
- age
- disability
- race
- religion or belief
- sex
- sexual orientation
- Equality Act
Arbitration
Agency workers
Attachment of Earnings Orders (AEOs)
Automatic unfair dismissal
Bribery Act 2010
Bullying and harassment at work
Changing contractual terms
Compromise agreements
Consulting with your workers
Criminal records and CRB disclosures
Data Protection Act (DPA)
Directors' responsibilities
Disciplinary action
Dismissal
Document retention
Employment rights
Employment status
Employment tribunals
Equal pay
Fixed-term contracts
Flexible working - right to request
Foreign nationals and work permits
Handling absence due to sickness or injury
Handling grievances
Handling absences other than sickness
Key employment statistics
Lay-off and short-time working
Managing poor performance
Maternity and adoption
National Minimum Wage (NMW)
Notice periods
Parental leave
Part-time workers
Paternity leave
Pension schemes - general overview
Pensions - occupational schemes
and personal pension schemes
Pensions - Personal Accounts Scheme
Pensions - stakeholder pensions
Redundancy
Redundancy pay ready-reckoner
Restrictive covenants
Retirement - the statutory procedure
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (VBS)
Sick pay (including SSP)
Statements of Fitness for Work
Time off for dependants
Time to train - right to request
Trade unions
Transfer of Undertakings Regulations (TUPE)
Useful calculators for statutory rates
Whistleblowing
Working Time Regulations (WTR)
Young persons and children
STEP BY STEP GUIDES
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Appraisal
Communication
Delegation
Disciplinary investigations
Disciplinary meetings
Employee surveys
Induction
Interviewing
Making a job offer
Managing TUPE transfers - transfer out
Managing TUPE transfers - transfer in
Motivating your team
Performance management
Personnel files and administration
Recruitment
Redundancy
Restructuring
Retention
Time management
Training and development
GUIDES
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360-degree appraisal
Assessment days
Apprentices
Avoiding tribunals
Benchmarking
Bonus/incentive schemes
Business gifts and hospitality
Career break schemes
Changing culture
Childcare vouchers
Clients, contractors and other third parties
Coaching and mentoring
Communicating effectively during mergers,
acquisitions and change
Competency-based selection
Crisis and contingency planning
Cycle to work scheme
Dealing with language barriers
Death-in-service
Deductions from pay
Diversity in the workplace
Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs)
E-learning
Elements of a reward package
Employee consultation
Equal pay audits
Flexible working
Flexible or cafeteria benefit schemes
Home working
Identifying and developing leadership skills
Internal communications
Investors in People (IIP)
Itemised pay statements
Job adverts
Job descriptions
Job evaluation
Job share arrangements
Management development
Managing change
Managing conflict
Managing depression
Managing during major sporting events
Managing holidays
Managing in a continued recession
Managing leavers
Managing long-term absence
Managing 'redundancy survivor syndrome'
Misconduct outside work
National Insurance Contributions (NICs)
Occupational testing
Pay levels
Pay review
PAYE and Income Tax
Personal relationships at work
Person specifications
Pre-employment checks
Preventing and managing industrial action
Probationary periods
Psychological contract
Retirement
Sales commission schemes
Secondments
Salary sacrifice
Social networking
Standby and call-out arrangements
Stress at work
Succession management
Suggestion schemes
Talent management
Taking up references
Theft and fraud
Tribunal claims
Weather - managing extreme conditions
Women in the workplace
Work-related functions
Work experience and unpaid placements
Working and travelling abroad
Working with children and vulnerable adults
HANDOUTS
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DOs and DON'Ts - absence
DOs and DON'Ts - appraisal
DOs and DON'Ts - bullying and harassment
DOs and DON'Ts - discipline
DOs and DON'Ts - dismissal
Essential employment law for managers
DOs and DON'Ts - grievances
DOs and DON'Ts - probationary periods
DOs and DON'Ts - recruitment
DOs and DON'Ts - redundancy
DOs and DON'Ts - references
DOs and DON'Ts - retirement
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