Human Resources Management Legal Risks and Compliance Skills

Course Objectives:

• Modern HR thinking encourages HR professionals to take wider business roles and for business managers to enter the HR function.

• This course is aimed at managers who need a better understanding of practical HR compliance and HRs distinct position as trusted adviser.

• There are many models through which HR support the line and the senior management team. But there are also core principles and HR protocols that help you through most everyday challenges.

• Led by a seasoned HR professional and an employment lawyer – this course covers the importance of a fair process, pragmatic HR advice and how following good practice reduces legal risk

Course Outcomes:

• Understand what actions they need to take with their employees

• Practice sharing power, resulting in power becoming a multiplier within the company

• Examine and align their expectations, the company’s and the employee’s

• Gain employee trust through the use of respect and recognition

• The latest trends in the human resources field and the changing role of the human resources professional

• Key aspects of the HR function from a legal risk perspective

• HR’s role in achieving procedural fairness and how this saves time, protects careers and the organisation model behaviours of an HR professional: what all good HR professionals do well

• HR advice: what is different about HR and how to be heard anecdotes, war stories and hindsight experience

• An overview of Labour legislation in South Africa including the Employment Equity Act, the Labour Relations Act, The BCEA, The Skills Development Act, BBBEE scorecard