Employment Rights: Your Top 10 Hit List for Success at Work!

Course details

Do you want to know the most important policies, procedures and employment laws that can protect you at work?

Whether you are one of Udemy's 14,000 instructors or one of the 14 million students who have enrolled on a Udemy course to date - you are more likely than not, to be in some form of paid employment! This means that this course is for you!

We spend most of our productive time in some form of paid employment and in some cases, that employment is what defines us. It's what makes us feel human and is what gives us our identity. Now imagine if that time at work is corrupted by someone or something that seems intent on making your working experience as miserable as possible!  What would you do? Imagine its your son or daughter or another relative in the family. What would you tell them? What advice would you be able to give them?

Employment rights is the forgotten area of our employment experience.   Yet employment rights is the part of our day job that forms the foundation of the protections we are entitled to, when we go to work every day.

Most people only think about their employment rights in terms of the hours they work, how much they should get paid or when things go very wrong.  These areas are important! However, if you don't know how to access and use your employment rights; or, you don't know when to use your employment rights; or, you rely solely on someone else to use your rights for you - you increase the risk of not being able to challenge unfair treatment at work.

At a time when economic factors mean that reliance on your job has become critical, one of the most important gifts you can give to yourself is the gift of time to understand your employment rights at work.

This course gives you that time to learn and understand!

Take this course to learn about the key things you need to understand when you start a new job; or, the things you need to know even when you have been in your job for some time!

In this course you will learn about:

• The need to understand your employment status and the rights that go with your status. Not all employment statuses are the same!
• The rules about written and unwritten (i.e. never received!) contracts of employment
• Pay and employee-related benefits
• Policies supporting dependent care responsibilities
• Policies that support you to resolve grievances and disputes
• What to do when things go wrong at work
• How to protect your employment rights even if you are in a trade union

After completing this course you will:

• Have a knowledge base that you can use to check your employment rights and ensure you are accessing and receiving all your employment benefits;
• Be able to positively influence the way you are treated at work;
• Be able to take action if your employer is undermining your employment rights;
• Improve the likelihood of positive outcomes arising from concerns and disputes at work, because you will be able to take action early to resolve problems; and,
• Know how to protect and defend your employment rights, which could potentially save your job!

We all have to start our learning somewhere. Our time to start our learning is now!

This course takes a detailed look at employment rights from day one of your employment. The time it will take to complete this course, corresponds to a half-a-day's training that you would likely need, to undertake this course in a live training session.

This course reflects employment rights relevant to the UK. If you are looking for employment rights for a specific country, there will be key learning points you can use from this course to help you search for corresponding rights in the relevant country.

This course would not likely suit experienced advocates working with employee rights in formal settings.

I'm looking forward to learning with you!