Employment , Skills, Security and Process

Duty of Care

Employment, Skills , Security and Process

Date 09/05/2012 Page 1 of 2 Issue 1.0

Flexicurity is an integrated strategy for strengthen and improve flexibility and security in the labour market. It is designed to clarify employers' need for a flexible workforce and support workers' need for security and to provide them with confidence that they will not face long periods of unemployment. Our mission is to integrate this process into our organisation and train our workforce to use quality system effectively.

Monitoring and measurement of the implementaion process shall be indipendantly audited and verified to comform to ISO9001 Internation Standard requirements. Workforce and clients who use the system to comply with specificed training requirements shall be required to use approved black box technology to assess development and environmental improvments and effectivness of the quality system.

Employment & Skills Key 1: Recruitment Red = Legal Framework 1.1 Documents and employment policies Blue = Regulated Activity 1.2 Different types of worker 1.3 Taking on staff 1.4 Advertise a Job 1.5 Employment Checks 2: Staff Pay 2.1 National minimum wage 2.2 Pay and Pensions 3: People Management 3.1 Equality and diversity 3.2 Staff motivation and performance 3.3 Working time 3.4 Redundancy, restructure and change 3.5 Trade unions 3.6 Employee engagement 3.7 Holiday and other leave 3.8 Maternity, paternity and adoption 4: Staff Development 4.1 Skills training for directors and organisation owners 4.2 Training 4.3 Qualifications 4.3.1 Qualifications Framework 5: Resolve conflict and staff leaving 5.1 Problems at work 5.2 Dismissals and staff leaving 6: Employment & Skills 6.1 Site Map

Issued by: Len Gair: Director of Group Projects

Approved by: John Hodgkinson: Managing Director

Duty of Care

Date 09/05/2012 Page 2 of 2 Issue 1.0

Employment, Skills , Security and Process

COMMON PRINCIPLES OF THE PROCESS 1 Flexible and reliable contact arrangements 2 Comprehensive training and educational strategies 3 Effective labour market and workplace policies 4 Modern social security systems PURPOSE: NEW SKILLS NEW JOBS 1 Promote better anticipation of future skills needs 2 Develop better matching between skills and labour market needs 3 Bridge the gap between Training, Education and Work PRACTICAL MEASURES TO SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROCESS 1 European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) Analysis of emerging trends at sectorial level and sectorial skills needs from the 2 Alliance of sector skills councils 3 European Framework for key competences for lifelong learning 4 Ongoing research with the ILO and the OECD 5 Relevant skills, competences and qualifications of occupations as described by the National Occupational Standards (NOS) Database.

6 European Qualifications Framework 7 European Social Fund and the Lifelong Learning Programme University-Business forum– encourages dialogue between business and education and training 8 providers 9 Introduction to License-linked Qualifications. Guidance for awarding bodies and training providers APPROVAL TO USE THE SYSTEM FOR TRAINING OR EDUCATION PURPOSES 1 Approval to use the Duty of Care Quality manual and Quality assured flexicurity system for training or education purposes shall require the permission of the project director or the Managing Director. Both are contactable by clicking here and submitting your initial request 2 This system shall be used with the following; a) Job profile b) Job description c) Occupational Standards applicable to the Job description d) Training plan e) Contract of employment 3 Implementation and initial training on system use shall be by approved users only

Issued by: Len Gair: Director of Group Projects

Approved by: John Hodgkinson: Managing Director