Training Qualifications UK Ltd · RQF Level 2
TQUK Level 2 Certificate in Employment Law for Union Representatives (RQF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits16
- Guided learning108 hours
- Units in this qualification4
Awarded by Training Qualifications UK Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
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These are the units Training Qualifications UK Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Employment law, employee rights and the workplaceReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental concepts of employee rights within the UK legal framework.
- Understand the dynamics of union-employer relations, including negotiation and dispute resolution processes.
- Understand the core principles and sources of employment law in the United Kingdom.
- Understand how UK employment law is influenced by European and global legal frameworks and agreements.
- Understand current and proposed reforms to employment law and their potential impact on employees and employers.
The role of the union workplace representativeReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how a Union Workplace Representative can effectively support union members with employment rights or employment law issues, including providing advice and representation.
- Know the relevant agencies responsible for ensuring compliance with employment rights and understand how these agencies can support both individual employees and Union Workplace Representatives.
- Understand the specific role and responsibilities of the Union Workplace Representative in employment-related situations that require immediate attention, such as disciplinary hearings or grievance procedures.
- Understand the role of the Union Workplace Representative during a redundancy process, including consultation with the employer and supporting affected members.
- Understand the role of the Union Workplace Representative when the union takes industrial action, including organising members and ensuring compliance with relevant legislation.
Understanding and using collective bargaining systems and agreementsReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the processes involved in collective bargaining between employers and trade unions.
- Understand the legal status and practical role of collective agreements in regulating terms and conditions of employment.
- Plan and prepare for participation in the collective bargaining process, including identifying key issues and developing negotiation strategies.
- Understand the legal requirements relating to an employer's disclosure of information to trade unions for the purpose of collective bargaining.
Understanding circumstances where employment contracts come to an endReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the various circumstances under which an employment contract can be terminated, including resignation, dismissal, and redundancy.
- Understand the role and implications of Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (TUPE) arrangements in the context of employment contracts ending.
- Understand the legal rights of individuals when their employment contract comes to an end, including rights related to unfair dismissal and redundancy pay.
- Understand the role and function of employment tribunals in resolving disputes related to the termination of employment contracts.
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Contribute to the resolution of industrial disputes in the workplace v2
- Provide specialist advocacy services on behalf of union members v2
- Support and advise on the representation of individual union member and collective interests v2
Where this can lead
Industrial Relations Specialist
Your journey in Industrial Relations at our organisation is what you make it. We're here to provide the challenges, the support, and the opportunities for you to grow, whether that's becoming a deep subject matter expert or leading a team. We believe in investing in our people, and we're excited to see where you'll go.
See the whole journey →Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit provides learners with knowledge of employee rights, employment law, and union-employer relations within the UK. It includes the influence of European and global factors and recent employment law reforms.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for TQUK Level 2 Certificate in Employment Law for Union Representatives (RQF)
4 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Training Qualifications UK Ltd.
- Employment law, employee rights and the workplace
- The role of the union workplace representative
- Understanding and using collective bargaining systems and agreements
- Understanding circumstances where employment contracts come to an end
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.