HR and Employment Law Training
Help your management understand and identify employment law issues, and have the confidence to manage these effectively.
Employment law and HR training
Help your management team handle workplace challenges confidently and compliantly. Our practical employment law training equips managers with the skills to handle challenging situations, mitigate legal risks, and prevent costly tribunal claims.
How is the training delivered?
- Face-to-face workshops at our office or your premises
- Live online sessions with interaction and Q&A
- Pre-recorded training modules for flexible learning
- Mixed approach combining different formats to suit you
- Bespoke training offering practical applications to your organisation.
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Why choose our lawyer-led employment training?
Unlike generic HR training companies, our employment solicitors offer:
- With over 80 years of collective experience, our team brings employment law expertise to every training session.
- We have real tribunal experience and up-to-date knowledge from handling actual Employment Tribunal cases and current law changes.
- Our training sessions are bespoke and tailored to your industry, business size, and specific workplace challenges.
- Our expertise is trusted and has been trusted for 150 years. We maintain a 4.9 rating on Review Solicitors.
- We're a recognised legal authority. Our team includes members of the Employment Lawyers Association, and lawyers ranked in Chambers and Partners and Legal 500.
HR and employment law topics we can cover
- Disciplinary and grievance procedures – you will learn the complete process from initial concerns to final decisions. Includes documentation requirements, investigation techniques, and how to avoid the common mistakes that lead to tribunal claims.
- Equal opportunities training – you will learn how to identify and manage potentially discriminatory behaviour wherever it may arise in your workplace. Includes how to model good behaviour, how to prevent poor behaviour, case law lessons and how to use your existing procedures to deal with discriminatory conduct.
- How to prevent sexual harassment – you will learn how to identify and manage behaviour that may constitute sexual harassment. How to deal with common scenarios such as harassment over social media and workplace events. Learn lessons from case law and discover how to manage grievances related to sexual harassment effectively. Evidence compliance with your legal duty to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment.
- Handling difficult conversations – you will learn how to engage with employees when discussing tricky issues. Learn how to manage delivering bad news and handle sensitive topics.
- How to run a performance management process – you will learn how to set measurable and achievable targets, provide support to employees to help them improve, and when to engage a formal process to apply sanctions.
- How to manage absence – you will learn about the different stages of managing a sickness absence, seeking additional medical evidence, engagement with the sick employee and considering reasonable adjustments.
- Neurodiversity at work – you will learn about the different types of neurodiverse conditions, how they might impact an employee at work, how to manage these issues, how to adapt procedures, the role of reasonable adjustments and lessons from case law.
- Data protection at work – you will learn about the foundations of data protection rights, how these might apply to your organisation, how to implement data protection by design, and how to handle data subject access requests.
Help your management understand and identify employment law issues and have the confidence to manage these effectively and compliantly.
Meet the employment law team
Katherine Cooke
Senior Associate - Employment Law
Tim Jones
Partner and Head of Employment Law
Debra Cottam
Principal Associate - Employment Law
Jayne Holliday
Legal Director - Employment Law
Jo Walker
Principal Associate - Employment Law
