Introduction to Employment Law and Employee Rights (Updated Course 2025)

(Updated Course 2025)

Overview

Employment law has become increasingly complex over the past number of years. It is critical that employers and managers have a basic knowledge in all aspects of recruitment, selection, employment and the management of employees.

This eLearning course will specifically focus on the need for pharmacies to ensure compliance with employee legislation and is aimed at owners, managers, supervisors or learners who aspire to be in a managerial role in the future.

Course Content

• Topic 1: Recruitment & Selection and the Legislation
• Topic 2: Employee Rights
• Topic 3: Time keeping & attendance
• Topic 4: Leave Entitlements
• Topic 5: Grievance, Disciplinary and the Legislation
• Topic 6: Termination of Employment
• Topic 7: An Introduction to Workplace Relations Commission (WRC)

Course Delivery and Methodology

This eLearning course has been designed to engage the learner using interactive on-screen content and quizzes. The main purpose of this eLearning course is to provide the learner with a knowledge of basic employment law to ensure compliance with current employment rights and employer responsibilities.

Course Schedule

This eLearning course is available online on the IPU Professional Academy Learning Management System (LMS) and can be accessed at anytime throughout the year.

Assessment

Participants who complete the course and the course evaluation will receive an IPU Professional Academy Certificate of Completion.

Course Fee

The cost of this course is €195 for learners working for IPU members; or €295 for learners working for non-members.

How to Enrol and Pay

1. Go to www.ipu.ie.
2. In the top menu, click on “IPU Professional Academy” and then select Training Courses.
3. If you want to browse first, just click View Course to read the details.
4. From the Training Courses page, you can add courses to a shopping cart by hovering over the course you want and clicking Add to Cart. You will be able to increase the quantity at the Checkout point. You can continue adding other courses to the cart, or when you are done, click View basket on the last course you added, or, if you are viewing a course, click on the basket icon in the right-hand corner and click View Basket.
5. From here, you can increase the quantity but make sure to click Update Basket if you do so.
6. Please, make sure you click on the green button ”Members Login” and log on if you are a member, so the system will show the member price.
7. Click Proceed to Checkout when you are happy with your booking (s) and enter your billing and pharmacist details.
8. You can then scroll down to enter the student details. For example, if you are intending on booking one student on one course and then two students on to a different course, you will see three student bookings appear in the Checkout, since you are booking three slots. The name of the course (s) you have selected will appear at the top of each slot so you can enter the details of the appropriate student to the selected course. You would then repeat the same for the next two student slots.
9. After entering all the required information, enter your card details and click Place Order to pay for all of the bookings in one go. This eLearning course is available to purchase 24/7 and is placed on the IPU Professional Academy Learning Management System (LMS).