Employment Law Certificate (CC) - Summer Term

The TUC's Stage 2 course for workplace representatives.

This practical training course is designed for trade union workplace reps. It approaches the law from the perspective of workplace representatives, and its principal concern is how knowledge of, and confidence in using, employment law can improve workplace bargaining. It is not aimed at legal professionals or focused on the finer points of technical legal interpretation.

This course is for union representatives who have already completed the TUC Stage 1 Union Representatives course or its union equivalent.

Delivered one day per week for 10 weeks, the course will help you to:

• Build confidence and knowledge in exploring, questioning and using employment law
• Develop and consolidate research skills to find out how legal provisions affect workplace rights
• Review changes and challenges to workplace rights
• Plan what needs to be done in relation to your union and workplace situation
• Apply representational, organising and collective bargaining skills to make the most of the law at work
• Work collectively to plan collective action
• Prepare for and facilitate progression to advanced work on union issues, including advanced courses and union roles.

Union representatives who wish to take this course should have one of the following:

• Previously attended the TUC Stage 1 reps' course
• Obtained a suitable equivalent to the one above through their own union's courses or from elsewhere.

You also need to ensure that you have time off to attend this course and that you have informed the appropriate union branch official or officer of your intention to take the course.

Over the course of the 10 weeks you will be continuously assessed by the course tutor through classroom and workplace-based activities.

Completing this course enables you to progress to TUC Employment Law Diploma. You can also enrol on further TUC programmes.

If you are a member of a TUC-affiliated union, then Trade Union Education courses are funded by the Adult Skills Fund.

Please be aware that funding restrictions in some areas may mean that we cannot accept your application: if this is the case, you will be notified which college to reapply to.

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