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The Employer's Handbook 2017-18 has established itself as a source of reliable, unambiguous guidance for all small- to medium-sized employers in the UK, clearly identifying the legal essentials and best-practice guidelines for effective people management. It is a comprehensive source of hands-on advice on the increasingly complex legal framework now governing UK employment law, including guidelines on age discrimination legislation and the latest employment tribunal procedures.
Endorsed by the Institute of Directors, this fully updated edition of The Employer's Handbook 2017-18 covers recruitment, contracts, benefits, performance management, maternity and paternity rights, personnel records and data protection, terminating employment, and ensuring the health, safety and welfare of employees and pension obligations. It also provides access to a unique set of downloadable templates, forms and policy documents for dealing with key employment issues.
List of contents
- Chapter - 00: Introduction;
- Chapter - 01: Recruiting Staff;
- Chapter - 02: Writing Employment Contracts;
- Chapter - 03: Paying Staff;
- Chapter - 04: Employee Benefits;
- Chapter - 05: Performance Management;
- Chapter - 06: Dealing With Absence;
- Chapter - 07: Maternity and Paternity Rights;
- Chapter - 08: Working Hours and Holidays;
- Chapter - 09: Writing a Staff Handbook;
- Chapter - 10: Personnel Records and Data Protection;
- Chapter - 11: Handling Organizational Change;
- Chapter - 12: Handling Disciplinary Issues;
- Chapter - 13: Dealing With Grievances;
- Chapter - 14: Terminating Employment;
- Chapter - 15: Dealing With Tribunal Cases;
- Chapter - 16: Ensuring the Health, Safety and Welfare of Employees;
- Chapter - 17: Working With Trade Unions
About the author
Barry Cushway is an independent HR consultant and Personnel Adviser to the Institute of Directors. With over 30 years' HR and employment law experience, he has previously worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hay and MSL and has undertaken projects for over 100 public and private sector organisations.
Barry Cushway is author and Executive Editor of Gee's best-selling loose-leaf work, Essential Facts: Employment, and numerous other books, including Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour and Design and The Employer's Handbook (all Kogan Page). He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
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"guides employers through a maze of employment issues" The Times (about a previous edition)
