Certificate in Employment Law and Employee Engagement (webcast)

This course aims to provide practical advice on how to combine HR skills with Employment Law knowledge to draw up clear guidelines that can be used by organisations to guard against possible employees’ claims.

• Why do HR professionals play an important gatekeeper role in policy formulation?

• Why is Employment Law an important factor in determining whether a workforce is engaged or not?

• Why is it crucial for HR managers to understand what is conducive to employee engagement or not?

Module 1: Overview – Employment Contract and Terms of Employment

• Basic legal knowledge in Hong Kong

• Intention to create legal relations

• Offer and acceptance of the employment contract

• Continuous employment

• Apology Ordinance

• Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Ordinance

• Contracting out audience

• Contract of service vs. Contract for service

• Terms of contract

Module 2: Introduction of Wages

• Discretionary bonuses

• Payment of wages and salary slips

• 713 calculation

• Deduction from wages

• End of year payments

• Minimum wage

• Competition Ordinance

Module 3: Types of Leave and Overtime Working Hours

• Rest days

• Statutory holidays

• Annual leaves

• Calculating leave payments

• Late for work

• Overtime working hours

• Work from home calculation

Module 4: Sickness, Maternity and Paternity

Sick Leave

• Sick leave

• Paid sickness day

• Sickness allowance

• Employment protection

Maternity

• Maternity leave

• Maternity leave payments

• Medical examination

• Harmful work

• Employment protection

Paternity

• Statutory paternity leave

• Paternity leave payments

• Employment protection

Module 5: Data Protection

• Data and other terminologies

• Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance

• Key compliance requirements for recruitment

• Recruitment advertisements

• Code of practice on human resource management

Module 6: Disciplinary Action and Termination

• Lawful and reasonable termination

• Summary dismissal

• Consequence of unreasonable termination

• Variation of employment terms

• Payment for suspension from employment

• Handling disciplinary meeting and staff termination

Module 7: Equal Opportunities Issues in Human Resource Management

• Practical case study and sharing

• Unlawful acts

• Introduction to Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC)

• Role and functions

• Complaint handling process

• Concepts of discrimination, harassment and equal opportunities

• The six prohibited grounds

• Application of the legislation: To identify practices that may constitute unlawful discrimination in major human resources management

• Good management practices and ways to prevent discrimination and harassment in the workplace

Module 8: MPF, Health and Safety

      MPF

• Employer's responsibilities and general MPF administrative matters

• Contribution Surcharge

• Common misconceptions and tips on avoiding non-compliance

• Latest developments of the MPF System

      Health & Safety

• Aspects related to office injuries and illnesses

• Occupational safety and health regulation (Manual handling operations & Display screen equipment)

• Fire safety provision in occupational safety and health regulation

Module 9: Employees’ Compensation

• Handling of work injury

• Application of Employees’ Compensation Ordinance

• Compensation items

• Employer’s and employees’ responsibilities

• Settlement channels

• Loss assessment

Module 10: Handling Labour Disputes and Employee Relations

• Labour disputes

• Grievance handling

• Disciplinary action

• Between line management and HR

• Complaints and lawsuits

• Public relations issues

• Practising legislation

• Managing relationships with unions

Module 11: From Compliance to Employee Relations

• Work beyond compliance: What matters or not?

• Change of employees’ behaviours

• Employer branding: What it takes to be good employers

• Building employee relations

Module 12: Employee Relations and Employee Engagement

• The concept and business cases of employee engagement

• The psychological contract

• Engaging employees throughout the HR cycle

• Engagement triangle and drivers

• Making employee engagement work

• Corporate wellness