Training for Employers
We believe most workplace problems can be prevented by ensuring your managers and teams both understand the law and know how to apply it. Our experienced solicitors deliver practical, engaging and fully bespoke training designed around your policies, challenges and business goals.
We work closely with your HR, directors and management to understand your organisation and tailor each course to the experience and responsibilities of your delegates. Our training can include practical workshops and tailored case studies.
Training can be delivered:
- Onsite at your premises
- In our offices or an offsite location
- Online via interactive webinars
Here are just some of the areas we can provide practical training on for managers, business owners and HR teams:
- An Employment law update – Bringing you up to date with any significant employment law changes that have come into force recently or are expected to be introduced so that you are fully prepared in practice and are able to update your internal policies and procedures in a timely manner.
- Employment Law Essentials – Everyday employment issues including performance management, disciplinary & grievance processes, flexible working, sickness absence and fair dismissals.
- Family Rights & Flexible Working – A clear guide to maternity/paternity rights, adoption leave, parental leave, time off for dependants and handling flexible working requests.
- Discrimination & Equality – Understand and prevent discrimination and harassment. Covers protected characteristics, types of discrimination, and how to build a fair, inclusive workplace.
- Redundancy – How to run a fair, lawful and well-structured redundancy process, manage consultation, reduce risk and maintain good employee relations.
- Disciplinary & Grievance Management – How to investigate issues, manage difficult conversations and conduct compliant hearings to avoid disputes and tribunal claims.
- Managing Sickness Absence – Managing short- and long-term absence, recognising potential disabilities, supporting mental health and making reasonable adjustments.
- Restrictive Covenants – How to draft and enforce restrictive covenants to protect confidential information and legitimate business interests.
- Sexual Harassment – Training on the new employer duty, introduced in 2024 to prevent sexual harassment. Covers identifying inappropriate behaviour, reporting, responding and compliance requirements.
- TUPE – A practical overview of TUPE obligations during business sales, acquisitions or outsourcing, helping you avoid costly mistakes.
- Workplace Wellbeing & Mental Health – Recognising mental-health concerns, supporting employees, and promoting a positive wellbeing culture.
Contact Us
Do get in touch if you would like to discuss an HR or employment law enquiry
Joanna Atkinson
Practice Director
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We’ve been working with JMA HR & Legal Limited for a couple of years now, and we’ve always been very satisfied with the services they provide.
Thank you… you’ve worked like a demon and with good results!
Joanna provided first class service to me during a very difficult time both professionally and personally. She is one of those rare individuals who follows through on commitments, she calls when she says she will, she provides accurate documents on time and ensures that the transactions are completed in a professional and timely manner thus reducing your stress at what can be a difficult time. I highly recommend Joanna’s work.
Thank you very much for your prompt and efficient work on this negotiation but most of all for communicating the various issues to me in such an understandable and most of all friendly way.
I have worked with Joanna for a number of years… I have always received extremely clear, concise and pragmatic legal advice. Joanna is professional and creative with a great sensitivity to the situation and cultural context. Her guidance and direction is second to none.
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I can’t recommend Joanna highly enough, she helped me to resolve a difficult situation, she was professional, supportive and gave thorough, clear and excellent advice. Joanna made a difficult situation seem stress free. Thank-you.
Joanna has an eye for detail but remains pragmatic. She wants the best for her clients and ensures that the advice she gives is useful and actionable. I have worked with Joanna on more than one occasion and every time she has made me feel like I’m her only client.
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Being an overseas company we’re not that familiar with the particularities of the UK social legislation and it’s very comforting to know that we can count on Joanna’s expertise.
I was extremely impressed by Joanna, she quickly understood what I needed assistance with. Her advice was clear, and gave me the confidence to quickly resolve a situation. I would have no hesitation in recommending Joanna to anyone needing legal, business advice.
We are a relatively small charity where sound external HR advice is needed. My experience of JMA HR and Legal is that they provided the appropriate level advice and service that we needed. In dealing with difficult issues, they showed an understanding and sensitivity, which gave us a path through it. All communication was clear and practical. Creating and advising on contracts and legal frameworks helped our charity run more efficiently.
It’s been an extremely upsetting time for me. Verity, thank you so much for your professionalism and pragmatism. For fighting my corner when I felt defeated; and for steering a calm path when I was finding it hard to regulate my feelings. I’m in a position to reset and re-evaluate in my own time thanks to you. Its all very much appreciated.
Verity really helped me navigate a very unsettling time. I can’t recommend her/them enough. She was sympathetic, knowledgeable, timely and a great ear. I felt with her help that I was able to navigate and be well prepared for the inevitable internal meetings which were very unnerving. With her great advice, I felt less alone, able to defend myself but also stay true to my own core values through the process. Good realistic advice about what you can achieve and how you can achieve it at this time is actually priceless. A great firm which I will now return to at the start of my new roles (new employment contracts) but hopefully not need them again at the end!
Verity provided the best service I could have possibly asked for in what was a very difficult situation both professionally and personally. Verity walked through everything in a clear and calm manner which really put me at ease. She was there for support and questions at all hours which I can not thank her for enough. I would not think twice about recommending Verity and the team to anyone who requires HR legal advice.
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