UK Employment Law - (Diploma-Postgraduate)

Course Contents, Concepts and Issues

Employer-Employee Relationship

What Is Employment Law?

Key Provisions of the Employment Act 2002

The Provisions of the Employment Act 2002, With Its Statutory Instrument 2004, In Averting ‘Employer-Employee Repudiation’

Key Issues in the Employment Relations Act 2004

Discrimination in Employment

The Race Relations Act 1976,

The Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000

The Race Relations Act 1976 (Statutory Duties) Order 2001

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Amendment) Regulations 2003

The Equal Pay Act, 1970, the Equal Pay (Amendment) Regulations, 1983,

The Sex Discrimination Act 1975

The Employment Rights Act 1996

The Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999

Equality with a Difference: Crucial Interpretation of the Equality Regulations

Job Design and the Equality Regulations

Mechanistic Job Design

Biological Job Design

Perceptual Job Design

Motivational Job Design

Legal Issues Associated With Job Design

Legal Issues Associated With Flexible Working

Statutory Minimum Requirements for Grievance and Disciplinary Procedure: Employment Act 2002 (Dispute Regulations 2004)

Instant Dismissal or Summary Dismissal?

Legal Issues in Recruitment and Selection: Avoiding Discrimination

Statutory Requirement for Employment

Statutory Information Requirement and Timescale for New Employees

Frustration of Contract: An Illustrative Guide

The Employment Contract

Sick Pay Entitlement

Maternity Leave: Statutory Requirement

Paternity Leave as A Legal Issue

Employees as Intellectual Capital

Exploiting the Organisation’s Intellectual Property

Protecting the Organisation’s Intellectual Property

Employee vs. Employer in Ownership of Intellectual Property Rights

Defining and Employee: Determining Intellectual Property Rights

Patent and Intellectual Property Rights

Research and Development and Intellectual Property Rights

Research and Development and the Patent Act

‘Reverse Engineering’ and Intellectual Property Rights

International Convention for Intellectual Property Rights