L3 Employment Practice for Paralegals

You’ll gain in-depth knowledge into contractual relationships and a wider scope of employment law. Develop skills to apply the law in practical situations and understand where paralegals can play a role in employment practice and HR departments.

Skills you will learn: the ability to identify and use factual, procedural and theoretical understanding to complete tasks and address well defined but complex or non-routine issues; time management to include taking responsibility for initiating and completing tasks; the ability to exercise autonomy and judgement within a given scenario; the ability to use and interpret legal language.

Learning Outcomes

• Know and evaluate the difference between employees and other types of workers.
• Know and apply understanding of how employment may be terminated.
• Demonstrate a detailed knowledge of the principles and practice of unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal and redundancy.
• Know in detail employees’ rights and entitlements under statute and common law.