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Why you need a Policy NOW ! Two recent Employment Tribunal cases, one involving Face book and another one with Twitter have one clear message in common for modern employers – the urgent need to have clear up to date, precise policies and procedures in place about the use of Social Media at work. Both the cases profiled below could have been lost by the employer had they not previously taken proactive policy steps to keep up to date with an ever changing scene. Face Book The Face Book case arose from an unfair dismissal claim. The Employment Tribunal held that a pub manager was fairly dismissed for gross misconduct after she made inappropriate comments on Face book about two customers who had verbally abused and threatened her.   The Face Book chat took place while the employee was at work and did not reflect her upset or anger at the customers, but appeared to be a joke between friends.  However, a wider audience was able to look at her Face Book page, including r

A recent enquiry for recruitment training prompted us to review our back catalogue of training courses on staff, recruitment, selection and retention.  In doing so we identified a number of common and recurring topics plus a few rarer ones. We have now worked these up into distinct modules allowing our customers and clients to build bespoke courses from preset modules.   Using these pre developed modules speeds up development time and reduces the costs associated with bespoke training.   As always we still strive to include client specific processes, procedures and documentation but with the modular format course development is far far easier More information here #hr #humanresources #training #management # leadership #staffing #fe #schools

All Managers within Further Education need to ensure the time they spend on improving the quality of teaching training and learning will deliver the results they seek in the minimum amount of time and with the least amount of burden. This new course from Concrew Training explores the Teaching Learning and Assessment Improvement Strategies that have proved effective in delivering outstanding teaching, learning and assessment within Further Education. That is what works and what does not! More Information Here #fe #furthereducation #teachers #education #ofsted #learning #edchat

At least a 15% discount on all Concrew Training Courses booked before 23 January 2015    Contact Concrew Training today for a best price quote To celebrate the New Year and the launch of our new look web site we are offering at least 15% off all courses and workshops booked before 23rd January 2015 Courses can be delivered up to 3 months ahead, longer in some situations and usually no payment is usually required until after the training has been completed. #fe #schools #hr #training #management #humanresources #ceo  

The equality and human rights commission have just published free  online resources for children and young people - to learn about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). See link below http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/about-us/our-work/key-projects/young-peoples-rights-and-crc #schools #teachers #learning #fe #education #humanrights #equalities

Many charities and community organisations rely on volunteers and private companies and public sector bodies are also increasingly moving into this area by either offering volunteer places to unemployed people or releasing paid staff to undertake voluntary work as part of their overall corporate social investment policies and activities. Welfare to work reforms, government announcements about the status of employees as well as a growing number of important landmark cases are changing the rights and responsibilities of both the volunteer and those who manage them. Consequently it is important that all those who are involved in or with volunteering understand the latest requirements, for example The difference between an employee and a ‘worker’ when a volunteer might be an employee or worker the implications for employment rights, minimum wage etc The tax implications if volunteers are paid or receive taxable benefits The potential implications if volunteers who are charity

Pending changes to section 56 of the data protection act has significant implications for all businesses and organisations.   The expected implementation date for, the currently dormant,  Section 56 is December 2014 although this may change. It will make “ enforced subject access requests ” a criminal offence.  Enforced subject access requests typically arise the in recruitment checking and vetting process or the supply of restricted products and services.   That is to say where any person requires someone to exercise their subject access rights under the Data Protection Act (DPA), by submitting a request for their personal data (for specific protected records) to certain data controllers, and to share the results.  Section 56 is designed to stop excessive access to protected records which would not normally be available except to individuals as their own personal data, or to those limited persons legally entitled to make specific searches for such details. Section 56 will