The Employer's Handbook: An Essential Guide to Employment Law Personnel Policies and Procedures - Hardcover

Cushway, Barry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0749443502 ISBN 13: 9780749443504

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2005

Synopsis

"An ideal starting point for tackling a range of employment related issues. It is set out in a user friendly style that dispenses with all but the hardiest employment lawyers...The book offers a glimpse into the areas of HR practice that they don't teach at law school."

Firm Scotland

All employers are expected to deal with an increasingly complex legal framework, which they ignore at their peril. The Employer's Handbook is a comprehensive, reliable and affordable source of practical guidance that will ensure they keep on the right side of the law. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to cover all statutory changes since the last edition. The new ACAS Code of Conduct is also included.

About this title

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.

From the Inside Flap

Front Flap:
The Employer s Handbook has established itself as a popular source of reliable, unambiguous guidance to the increasingly complex legal framework that now governs UK employment law. This third edition has been thoroughly updated to cover all statutory changes and incorporates the new ACAS Code of Conduct, as well as an Equal Pay Questionnaire.

Written by a best-selling author and expert in the field, The Employer s Handbook is a comprehensive source of practical, hands-on advice, presented in clear, non-legalese English. It identifies both the legal essentials (what employers are required to do) and the non-legal ones (actions that are not legal requirements but are fundamental for effective people management).

Topics include:

Staff recruitment;
Writing employment contracts;
Paying staff;
Performance management;
Dealing with absence;
Maternity rights, working hours and holidays;
Writing a staff handbook;
Personnel records and data protection;
Organizational change;
Discipline and staff grievances;
Terminating employment;
Tribunal cases;
Health, safety and welfare of employees;
Working with trade unions.

Packed with model letters, forms, policy documents and procedures for dealing with all key employment issues, the handbook is an invaluable source of practical information for any small- to medium-sized employer. The free CD ROM, also fully updated, contains template documents.

Rear Cover:
"An ideal starting point for tackling a range of employment-related issues. It is set out in a
user-friendly style that dispenses with all but the hardiest employment lawyers The book offers
a glimpse into the areas of HR practice that they don t teach at law school."

Firm Scotland

"A practical, jargon-free guide focuses on both the legal and non-legal
essentials for effective people management."

People Management

"Easy to read and clearly presented in the usual excellent Kogan Page style. It is a hands-on text, not academic a source of practical information for any small- to medium-sized employer."

Training Journal

"A goldmine of hands-on, non-legalese expert advice and information."

Business Plus

"Mixes law and practice in exactly the way which directors of small companies find most useful,
and it is written and laid out with rare clarity. It covers a very wide range of employment
and personnel issues, and for most purposes, in exactly the right level of detail."

Pamela Bater, former Head of Business Services, the Institute of Directors

Rear Flap:
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 organizations. He is author and Executive Editor of Gee s best-selling loose-leaf work Essential Facts: Employment, and numerous other titles including The Handbook of Model Job Descriptions, Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour and Design (all published by Kogan Page). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0749443502
• ISBN 13: 9780749443504
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 336