In this course, you will learn to identify the legal factors and challenges of human resources management throughout the entire life cycle of an employment relationship. You will understand the key employment law and collective agreements in the field, become familiar with data protection and privacy protection in the workplace, and learn the role, obligations, and calculation principles of payroll administration. You will build an important legal foundation for professional HR work.
Having completed this study unit
• You are able to recognise legal factors, issues and challenges in human resource management and in different phases of the employment lifecycle.
• You know the main content of the sector’s essential labour legislation and collective agreements and can apply them.
• You know the basics of data protection and protection of privacy at a workplace.
• You recognise the role of payroll in HRM and know the main legal duties related to payroll.
• You are aware of the main principles of payroll calculations.
• You recognise the role and meaning of legal issues in human resource management.
Competences: Ethics Competence, Learning to Learn Competence, Sustainable Development Competence
Content:
• main principles of employment and labour law (incl. employer’s and employee’s rights and duties)
• legal factors in recruiting
• legal factors in employment relationship
• termination of employment contract
• protection of privacy at a workplace (GDPR and Act on protection of privacy in working life)
• payroll as a function and legal duties related to payroll (e.g. income register, reporting and taxes)
• the main principles of payroll calculations (e.g. salaries/wages, collective agreement, hours, deductions and tax card)
• role of legal issues in HRM
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