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The Roles and Responsibilities of Staff Representatives
Useful social dialogue relies on clearly understood roles and well-prepared discussions. Clarify staff representatives' responsibilities, the resources available to them and their relationship with the employer. Strengthen your ability to address collective issues within a structured framework.
- Duration
- 2 days 14 hours
- Code
- RH016FR Code
Presentation
Staff representatives (DP) are management's main contacts for dealing with day-to-day disputes and also help ensure compliance with legislation and agreements within the company. Such a mandate cannot be exercised without preparation.
In this two-day course delivered by a labour inspector, you will learn about the legal and practical aspects of a staff representative's mandate and the role they should play within the company.
Objectives
- Understand the status, powers and role of staff representatives.
- Master the responsibilities involved in exercising the mandate.
- Support employees through dialogue and counterproposals.
- Understand staff representatives' rights and duties.
Program
Introduction
Trainer introduction, participant introductions and collection of participants' expectations.
The roles and responsibilities of staff representatives
- Acquiring staff representative status.
- Differences between staff representatives and other employee representatives.
- Losing staff representative status.
- Powers: information, consultation, negotiation?
- The labour inspectorate and staff representatives.
Exercising the staff representative mandate
- Time off for representative duties: from monitoring to payment.
- Freedom of movement: current position.
- Office space and availability to employees.
- The register.
- Understanding communication resources.
Meetings
- When to meet: preparatory, ordinary and extraordinary meetings.
- Who attends meetings?
- What questions should be asked?
- Are management's answers to staff representatives binding?
Protection of staff representatives
- Protection against dismissal.
- The offence of obstructing representative duties.
- The special dismissal procedure and appeals.
Practical work
Questions and answers. Discussions with the trainer and analysis of real cases provided by the trainer.
Key strengths: throughout the course, the trainer will inform participants about new provisions concerning staff and trade union representatives introduced in the new labour code. The trainer is an expert in labour and social legislation, with both practical experience of implementing labour law and experience as a teacher and speaker.
Audience
This course is intended for:
- Staff representatives, including principal representatives and substitutes.
- Anyone wishing to understand their rights and duties, including HR or personnel managers and directors.
Prerequisites
None.
Teaching and assessment methods
- Initial skills assessment
- Training materials provided to participants
- Continuous assessment throughout the course
- End-of-course feedback questionnaire
- Combination of theory and practical application
- Attendance records
- Post-course follow-up evaluation
- Quiz / multiple-choice questions
Dates and sessions
Choose the date and delivery format that suit you.
No upcoming sessions are currently available.