Supporting Good Practice in Managing Employment Relations

I’m working on a Management exercise and need support.

Activity

Investigate resources, such as the CIPD website, and write a guidance leaflet which covers key points of the areas detailed below.

The impact of employment law at the start of the employment relationship, including:

• 2 internal and 2 external factors which can impact on the employment relationship
• 3 different types of employment status and 3 reasons why it is important to clearly determine an individual’s employment status.

Employee rights during the employee relationship, including:

• the importance of work life balance and related legislation concerning holidays, rest periods, working hours and night working
• family/parent-related legal support, including maternity leave, paternity leave, adoption leave, and dependants leave
• 2 reasons why employees should be treated fairly in relation to pay
• the main points of equalities legislation including the concepts of direct and indirect discrimination, harassment and victimisation
• the concept of the ‘psychological contract’ and examples of policies and procedures which can underpin this.

Issues to be addressed at the termination of the employment relationship, including:

• the differences between fair and unfair dismissal
• the importance of exit interviews to both parties
• the key stages to be followed in managing redundancies and the impact of redundancy on the whole organisation

A written guidance leaflet of approximately 3000 words