An HR decision made without knowing the legal ground it stands on — a disciplinary action, a social insurance calculation, a termination clause — can expose an organization to claims that take years to resolve. The Personnel and Social Insurance Law: Legal Skills for HR Professionals training course by the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy is built to close that gap for legal, HR and insurance professionals who manage personnel affairs, retirement law and social insurance on a daily basis.

The course starts from the employer's disciplinary authority — the right to hold employees accountable when they breach the law, their employment contract, or company policy — and builds outward into the wider legal system that governs behavior and interests within any organization, along with the sanctions attached to violating it. Because legal studies carry their own technical language, the program also gives participants a solid grounding in how that language is interpreted and applied in practice.

• Managers and directors of companies and enterprises.
• Personnel in charge of law departments in business and commercial firms.
• Directors of legal departments and legal affairs across companies and enterprises.
• Law officers, businessmen and employees in legal management.
• Law students, graduates and trainee lawyers.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Apply personnel affairs, retirement law and social insurance provisions in an integrated legal form.
• Practice disciplinary procedures against public officers with full knowledge of the rules that govern them.
• Deal confidently with judicial authorities and understand their scope of power.
• Draft employment contracts and administrative resolutions to a professional legal standard.
• Determine contract specifications accurately and assess their legal and strategic importance in tendering.

Module 1: Legal Management of Personnel Affairs

• The concept of legal management.
• Personnel affairs, retirement law and social insurance: definition, interpretation and importance.
• Terms and conditions of the social insurance framework.

Module 2: Legal Interpretation and Drafting Skills

• Origins of legal interpretation and its application in practice.
• Applications and examples in writing legal memos and lawsuit drafting.
• Stages and mechanisms for preparing legal advice.

Module 3: Contracts, Negotiation and Documentation

• Contract preparation and conclusion skills.
• Negotiation, persuasion and dispute resolution skills.
• Formulation of documents, memos, statements and legal memoranda of various types.

Module 4: Contract Specifications and Procurement

• Writing contract specifications and procurement processes, and analyzing them.
• The legal importance of contractual specifications and their relation to the "invitation to tender" process.
• Doubtful and deficient descriptive specifications, and the impact of language on contractual meaning.

Module 5: Certification and Delivery

• The program is delivered in group, individual, practical and classroom formats, at a place and time suited to participants.
• Participants receive a certificate from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy upon completion.