Employment Law for Heads and Senior Leaders - Tuesday 13 May 2025 (Broadway House, London)

This highly interactive course is for: Heads of HMC and other independent schools, and members of school Senior Leadership Teams.

Description

What will you gain by attending?

  • A thorough, comprehensive grounding in the essentials of employment law – tailored for school leaders
  • The reinforcement - and substantial extension - of your existing knowledge
  • Greater confidence in handling staffing issues
  • The capacity to address developing problems before they ‘go critical’
  • A keen awareness of when you need to take further advice

The seminar will focus on real-life, highly practical, case studies - supported by detailed answers - and with comprehensive handouts on the issues discussed.

Course Programme

Time

Session

09:30

Arrival, registration, and coffee

10.00

Welcome and introduction

10.05

Session 1:

  • An initial quiz on employment law ‘Bare Necessities’
  • Qualifying for rights
  • How unfair dismissal works in practice
  • The right to representation at meetings/hearings

11.15

Refreshment break in lounge

11.30

Session 2:

  • Equalities rights: Who is now protected?
  • The pitfalls of interviews
  • Handling requests for flexible working
  • The rights of fixed-term/temporary staff

12.40

Lunch in restaurant

13.30

Session 3:

  • Rights to time off
  • Changing staff contracts
  • Addressing persistent ill-health
  • Data protection - staff rights of access

14.30

Refreshment break in lounge

14.45

Session 4:

  • The current rules on industrial action
  • Employment v self-employment
  • Settling disputes
  • ‘Coming Soon’: The changes the Government is planning

15.55

Questions and closing remarks  

16.00

Depart

Speaker Biography

Our guide through the thicket of employment law is legal expert, Philip Lott - a Solicitor specialising in this field. Philip has nearly 30 years’ experience as the in-house lawyer for an education union.

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"One of the best courses I've ever been on - Philip Lott was fantastic!"