Organisational Practices to Promote Balance and Ensure Compliance
3CO04 – Essentials of people practice
This CIPD Level 3 learning video, "Organisational Practices to Promote Balance and Ensure Compliance," covers unit 3CO04 Essentials of People Practice and addresses assessment criteria AC 3.1 on work-life balance within the employment relationship. The video explores how organisations can promote employee wellbeing and engagement through effective policies, manager decisions, and monitoring systems, whilst ensuring compliance with relevant legislation including working hours, holidays, rest periods, maternity and paternity provisions, and homeworking regulations. You'll gain practical insights into how HR professionals and managers can translate work-life balance principles into everyday organisational practice and understand the legislative framework that underpins these requirements.
Assessment Criteria 3.1
Explain the importance of work-life balance within the employment relationship and how it can be influenced by legislation.
Indicative Content
The importance of work-life balance within the employment relationship, wellbeing, employee engagement. Overview of the regulations relevant to work-life balance, such as holidays, working hours, rest periods, night working, maternity/paternity, homeworking.
What You'll Learn
Work–life balance becomes “real” in organisations through the everyday choices that managers make, the policies HR designs, and the systems used to track whether working patterns are healthy and lawful.
About 3CO04 – Essentials of people practice
This unit introduces the fundamentals of people practice, ranging from the employee lifecycle to policies, regulation and law. It further explores a diverse array of specialist subjects such as recruitment, talent management, reward and learning and development, essential to a career in people practice. Importantly, this unit enables practitioners to apply their knowledge and skills, building their confidence and ability to practise progressively.
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