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Trade union membership rights
Understand the rights of union members, non-union members and union officials in your business
Intellectual property crime and your business
IP crime is widespread and growing, and has serious economic, quality and safety impacts
Protecting intellectual property
How to conduct an audit of your business' intellectual property rights and take steps to protect and secure your IP
Get patent protection for your business
Find out how to patent a product, and protect your ideas or inventions by applying for a patent and securing your patent rights
Trade marks
Introduction to trade marking – how to choose, search for, register and protect trade marks in the UK or abroad
Design right and registration
How to protect the value of your designs through unregistered design rights and design registration
Copyright for your business
What is copyright, how to use this legal right to protect your creative work and what to do if someone violates it
Protecting your intellectual property abroad
Understand how to secure and enforce your intellectual property rights internationally, and register your patents, trade marks and designs overseas
Dismissals, resignations and retirements
Employer guidance on dismissing staff, issuing the correct periods of notice and what to do when an employee resigns, retires or dies
Manage your research, design and development
How to manage your design, research and development projects to adapt to customers' changing requirements
Use innovation to start or grow your business
What is innovation and why should new and existing businesses innovate in order to increase their efficiency and profitability
Find support for inventors
Support and advice for inventors and businesses developing innovative ideas, products and technologies in Northern Ireland
Managing bereavement law and discrimination
The law around managing bereavement and how to ensure discrimination does not occur.
Managing bereavement and returning to work
How to provide help and guidance when an employee is ready to return to work following a bereavement.
Steps to take when managing bereavement
How to deal with the immediate aftermath of bereavement and how why it is good practice to develop a bereavement policy.
Benefits of supporting bereaved employees
Supporting your employee through bereavement not only helps them but can also benefit your business.
Managing employee bereavement
How to best manage bereavement in the workplace, from dealing with the initial situation to how you can help your employees.
How to support employees with mental ill health
Ways that you can support employees if they are experiencing mental health issues.
Advantages of creating a positive mental health culture
Key benefits of creating a culture that respects and helps employees with mental ill health.
Problems caused by poor management of mental ill health
Poor management of mental ill health can create a number of issues including conflict, high staff turnover, and increased costs.