Starting on the right foot
Recruitment law, pay, hours and holidays.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- People Management and Employment Law
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
Recruitment is where the law first touches the working relationship, because equality law protects applicants from the moment an advert is drafted. This module explores affinity and confirmation bias, interviewing for evidence, reasonable adjustments and adverse impact monitoring under the Equality Act 2010, lawful pre-employment checks, the ICO audit of AI recruitment tools, and Bauer's Four Cs of onboarding, ending with a practical approach to the first six months. Managers make many of the decisions that drive pay, from rotas and timesheets to overtime and allowances. This module covers the National Minimum Wage rates from April 2026, the Fair Work Agency, the essentials of the Working Time Regulations 1998, holiday pay after Harpur Trust v Brazel, and equal pay routes and the material factor defence, with lessons from Birmingham City Council, Next and Asda on why fair pay must be checked.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Identify how affinity and confirmation bias shape selection decisions and use structured, evidence-based interviewing to reduce them.
- Apply the Equality Act 2010 to recruitment, including reasonable adjustments, the limits on pre-offer health questions and the lawful checks before a start date.
- Plan an onboarding and probation process for the first six months using Bauer's Four Cs.
- Identify how local decisions on working time, deductions and unpaid tasks can bring a worker's average pay below the legal minimum.
- Explain the core working time rules and how holiday is calculated for irregular hours and part-year workers after Harpur Trust v Brazel.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 04Recruitment, Selection and Starting WellRecruitment is where the law first touches the working relationship, because equality law protects applicants from the moment an advert is drafted. This module explores affinity and confirmation bias, interviewing for evidence, reasonable adjustments and adverse impact monitoring under the Equality Act 2010, lawful pre-employment checks, the ICO audit of AI recruitment tools, and Bauer's Four Cs of onboarding, ending with a practical approach to the first six months.37 min
- 05Pay, Hours and HolidaysManagers make many of the decisions that drive pay, from rotas and timesheets to overtime and allowances. This module covers the National Minimum Wage rates from April 2026, the Fair Work Agency, the essentials of the Working Time Regulations 1998, holiday pay after Harpur Trust v Brazel, and equal pay routes and the material factor defence, with lessons from Birmingham City Council, Next and Asda on why fair pay must be checked.38 min
Keep going.
Part of the People Management and Employment Law topic, also sold whole as Fair, firm and lawful.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, Firm foundations, 3 hours, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- Explore, Getting the basics right, 5 hours 30 minutes, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
- The whole topicImmerse, Fair, firm and lawful, 11 hours, £249. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £210.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Starting from scratch
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- The law and the managerEmployment Rights Act 2025 and contracts2 hours£39
- Fair treatment, flexible livesFlexible working, family leave, discrimination1 hour 15 minutes£39
- When health and performance dipSickness absence, capability and performance1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Handling it fairlyAcas Code: discipline, grievances and bullying1 hour 15 minutes£39
- When someone speaks upWhistleblowing and fair dismissal1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Change with fairnessRedundancy, TUPE and working with trade unions1 hour 15 minutes£39
