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Advisory handbook - The A-Z of work
Booklet summary
This handbook provides a brief introduction to important employee relations topics. It gives basic information on a number of subjects and where appropriate gives references to further sources of guidance.
It is primarily for organisations without specialist personnel expertise.
Topics covered in the booklet:
- Absence
- Appraisal schemes
- Change of employer
- Collective bargaining
- Communications
- Contracts of employment and rights on termination
- Disciplinary procedures
- Employee involvement
- Equal opportunities
- Flexible working practices
- Grievance procedures
- Handbooks
- Harmonisation
- Health and safety
- Holidays and time off
- Hours of work
- Human resource planning
- Job design
- Job sharing
- Employee turnover
- Management of change
- Pay and grading
- Pensions
- Personnel records
- Recruitment, selection and induction
- Redundancy and lay-offs
- Relocation
- Supervision
- Training and development
- Written statements
- Notes
- Acas publications
- Acas training.
The booklet is available to download from the 'Download PDF' link below. Alternatively, hard copies are available to order from our publications section of the site.





