Employment Law and Labour Law Masterclass

Explore permanent, fixed-term, part-time, zero-hour, casual, freelance, and apprenticeship contracts, noting rights like paid leave, sick pay, notice periods, and pro-rated holiday.

Identify the essential elements of a valid employment contract, including offer and acceptance, consideration, capacity, and free consent, with clear terms on job role, hours, pay, and holidays.

Defines rights and responsibilities in employment agreements, including wages on time, safe conditions, breaks, union rights, non-discrimination, parental leave, working time limits, and equal opportunities.

Learn how termination ends an employment contract through notice or mutual agreement, and how breaches—such as unpaid wages or confidential information leaks—trigger damages, wrongful versus unfair termination.

Explain how minimum wage laws set the lowest legal pay and regulate working hours, with overtime, breaks, and paid leave to protect workers and prevent exploitation.

Explore entitlements and holiday pay, including annual paid leave, sick leave, maternity or paternity leave, public holidays, and recordkeeping to ensure fair, compliant pay.

Implement health and safety policies to protect workers from accidents and illness, conduct risk assessments, train staff, provide protective equipment, and promptly report hazards to foster a culture of care.

Explore what constitutes harassment and bullying at the workplace and their impact. Learn employer duties, reporting channels, and how to build a respectful, inclusive culture.

Build a fair hiring process from job ads to work start, covering protected characteristics, pay range and working hours, essential versus desirable criteria, interviews, reasonable adjustments, and checks and records.

Understand how background checks verify education, past jobs, and criminal or credit records while respecting privacy and consent. Apply lawful, relevant, and secure practices to prevent discrimination.

Ensure employment eligibility and right-to-work compliance by verifying workers' documents, maintaining records, and applying a fair, uniform process to avoid penalties and protect reputation.

Explore codes of conduct and workplace rules that foster a fair, safe, and respectful environment, guiding attendance, use of company resources, confidentiality, integrity, and handling misconduct.

Protect employee data by collecting, storing, and using only necessary information, carefully handling medical, financial, and disciplinary details, while informing staff, limiting access, and upholding privacy rights and legal requirements.

Balance company monitoring with employee privacy by establishing clear written policies on the use of emails, internet, and social media, explaining what is monitored, why, and how data is handled.

Clarify lawful versus unlawful termination, outlining valid grounds, fair procedures, and remedies for wrongful or unfair dismissal, including discrimination, retaliation, and constructive dismissal.

Explore how notice periods and severance pay shape the end of employment, including duration rules, pay during notice, garden leave, and factors governing severance amounts.

Explore how redundancy happens when roles become unnecessary due to business changes, and how laws protect employees through fair processes, consultation, pay, and redeployment options.

Ensure equal treatment for part-time and fixed-term workers performing the same work. Provide fair access to benefits including health insurance, training, and proportionate pay, holidays, and bonuses.

Examine how temporary and agency workers gain equal pay and working conditions after a certain time, and secure breaks, holidays, and same facilities as permanent staff.

Explore the rights of interns and apprentices, including wages, safe working conditions, and fair treatment. Learn how training obligations, minimum wage requirements, and equality protections safeguard learning and prevent exploitation.

Unite workers to strengthen their voice in negotiating pay, hours, and conditions through unions and collective bargaining, securing fair pay, safe conditions, and binding agreements.

Explore how strikes and industrial action operate under law, including ballots, notices, and protections from dismissal, alongside potential employer responses like negotiations, temporary staffing, or lockouts.

Explore how employee representation and consultation bridge workers' voices with management, detailing unions, staff forums, health and safety representatives, and legal requirements during redundancies and Tupe transfers.

International employment law standards provide a shared framework for fair treatment, elimination of discrimination, and the right to organize, guided by ILO conventions and human rights treaties.

Navigate cross-border remote work by aligning local and international employment laws, taxes, social security, data privacy under GDPR, and immigration considerations, with contracts and employers of record as safeguards.

Explore how technology, remote and cross-border work, and evolving wellbeing expectations drive future employment laws, including algorithm decision making, data use, pay reporting, and gig protections.