Course Details

Sue West is a highly interactive speaker and will guide you through this essential HR and employment law topic. Sue covers the most important things that accountants need to know relating to ending a contract of employment as well as recent changes to HR and employment law, ensuring you have an overview of the latest employment compliance issues. 


The following topics are covered during this course:

  • Fair reasons to dismiss
  • A fair dismissal procedure
  • Acas code of practice/Organisation procedures
  • Where the Acas code does not apply and watch areas
  • Making a reasonable decision
  • Level of proof
  • Reasonable sanctions
  • Handling an appeal
  • Grounds
  • Timescales
  • Q&As

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Kate Shepherd Associates

Sue West

Sue is a senior HR Associate at Kate Shepherd Associates with over 25 years of operational and strategic HR practice in a variety of sectors including financial services, education, retail and voluntary.

Sue has a strong employment law focus and helps businesses balance their legal obligations with their commercial objectives.

Key characteristics and Skills
Sue adopts a practical approach to providing clients with advice and assistance to develop and embed practical HR strategies, policies, and processes. Linking into her employment law interests, Sue largely works with clients to ensure their processes and practice are risk-managed in line with meeting business needs. Sue’s assignments typically encompass HR audits, recruitment, and selection, disciplinary, grievance, investigations absence management, performance management, restructuring, redundancy and dismissals.

With extensive practical training experience Sue also designs and delivers a variety of workshops to enable people managers to proactively manage their employees with relevant knowledge, resources and confidence.