Optional Unit 5OS01 – Specialist Employment Law
The CIPD Level 5 unit 5OS01 (Specialist Employment Law) covers the main parts of UK employment law that people working in HR or people practice need to know. This unit looks at employment law and how it affects day-to-day people management work. It focuses on making sure workplace actions follow legal rules.
By the end of your learning you will:
- Understand the purpose of employment regulation and the way it is enforced in practice.
- Understand how to manage recruitment and selection activities lawfully.
- Understand how to manage change and reorganisation lawfully.
- Understand how to manage issues relating to pay and working time lawfully.
Topics covered include:
- Why employment law exists
- Main aims such as fairness and worker protection
- Role of employment tribunals and courts
- How cases are settled (for example mediation or settlement agreements)
- Main sources of UK employment law
- Discrimination law (Equality Act)
- Equal pay rules
- Right to work checks
- Fair recruitment practice
- Data protection in recruitment
- Changing contracts
- Redundancy law
- TUPE (business transfers)
- Consultation duties
- Legal risks during change
- Working Time Regulations
- Holiday entitlement
- Family leave (maternity, paternity, adoption)
- Flexible working rights
- National Minimum Wage
Study time
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About 30 guided learning hours Plus self-study and assignment time
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