{"id":6241,"date":"2024-03-03T01:38:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T21:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matsh.co\/en\/?post_type=course&#038;p=6241"},"modified":"2026-05-19T22:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:35:56","slug":"employee-relations-training-course","status":"publish","type":"course","link":"https:\/\/matsh.co\/en\/course\/employee-relations-training-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Relations Training Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"er-hook\">\n  <h2 style=\"font-size:clamp(1.15rem,2.5vw,1.5rem);font-weight:800;color:var(--navy);line-height:1.25;margin:0 0 14px\">Employee Relations Looks Different in Riyadh, Lagos and Jakarta. Generic Training Ignores This.<\/h2>\n  <p class=\"ch-lead\">In Saudi Arabia, employee relations means navigating Saudization targets and Ministry of Human Resources dispute resolution. In Nigeria, it means understanding trade union dynamics and sector-specific labour law. In Indonesia, it means balancing hierarchical workplace culture with the expectations of a younger, mobile workforce. A course that doesn't address where your participants actually work is a course that won't change how they work.<\/p>\n  <div class=\"ch-stats\">\n    <div class=\"er-stat-box\"><strong>58%<\/strong><span>of employee grievances escalate unnecessarily due to poor early handling by line managers<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"er-stat-box\"><strong>3x<\/strong><span>higher turnover in organisations with poor employee relations culture vs those with strong practice<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"er-stat-box\"><strong>400+<\/strong><span>HR professionals and managers trained across Gulf, Africa and Asia<\/span><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"er-pain\">\n  <p style=\"font-weight:700;font-size:1.05rem;margin:0;color:var(--navy)\">The employee relations situations that keep HR managers and line managers awake at night:<\/p>\n  <ul>\n    <li>A disciplinary situation that was handled inconsistently and is now a formal grievance heading toward the Ministry<\/li>\n    <li>A grievance that could have been resolved in week one and is now in week eight with no resolution in sight<\/li>\n    <li>A performance problem that was never addressed directly, now requiring termination, and the documentation does not support it<\/li>\n    <li>A team conflict between national and expatriate employees that nobody will name clearly because the cultural dimension makes it feel impossible to touch<\/li>\n    <li>Absence patterns that are clearly problematic but nobody has had the conversation because the employee is known to be difficult<\/li>\n    <li>A manager who avoids all difficult conversations, leaving HR to deal with problems that have been growing for months<\/li>\n  <\/ul>\n  <p style=\"margin:16px 0 0;font-weight:700;color:var(--prof);font-size:.97rem\">These situations have frameworks, processes and skills that resolve them. This course provides all three, built for the environments where your participants actually work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"er-ctx\">\n  <h3 style=\"font-size:1.1rem;font-weight:800;color:var(--navy);margin:0 0 14px\">Why This Course Is Built for the Gulf, Africa and Asia<\/h3>\n  <p style=\"color:var(--text);font-size:.92rem;line-height:1.75;margin:0 0 20px\">Standard employee relations training is built around Western HR frameworks, UK employment tribunals, US federal law, European works councils. None of this maps onto the environments where most GCC, African and Asian HR professionals actually operate.<\/p>\n  <div class=\"er-ctx-grid\">\n    <div class=\"er-ctx-card\"><h4>\ud83c\udfdb\ufe0f GCC Labour Law<\/h4><p>Saudi Labour Law, UAE Federal Decree-Law No. 33 of 2021, Kuwait Labour Law, Qatar Labour Law, each has specific provisions on discipline, termination, notice periods and dispute resolution that differ significantly from Western frameworks. We cover the ones that matter most.<\/p><\/div>\n    <div class=\"er-ctx-card\"><h4>\ud83d\udc65 Nationalisation Dynamics<\/h4><p>Saudization (Nitaqat), Emiratisation (Nafis), and equivalent programmes reshape workforce composition and create specific employee relations dynamics, national and expatriate employee management, that most courses ignore entirely.<\/p><\/div>\n    <div class=\"er-ctx-card\"><h4>\ud83c\udf0d African Labour Markets<\/h4><p>Employee relations in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and South Africa involves trade union engagement, sector-specific regulations, and Labour Court processes that require specific knowledge. We cover the jurisdictions most relevant to participants.<\/p><\/div>\n    <div class=\"er-ctx-card\"><h4>\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f Cross-Cultural Dynamics<\/h4><p>Managing employee relations across cultural lines, different expectations about hierarchy, directness, conflict and authority, is a thread throughout the course. What constitutes fair process differs across cultures; what constitutes good practice does not.<\/p><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"er-sh\">Who Should Attend<\/h2>\n<div class=\"er-cards\">\n  <div class=\"er-card\"><div style=\"font-size:1.8rem\">\ud83d\udccb<\/div><h4>HR Managers and Business Partners<\/h4><p>HR professionals responsible for employee relations who want a more systematic, legally grounded and culturally intelligent approach.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div class=\"er-card\"><div style=\"font-size:1.8rem\">\ud83d\udc54<\/div><h4>Line Managers and Team Leaders<\/h4><p>People managers who deal with conduct, performance and grievance issues daily but have never received formal training on how to handle them.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div class=\"er-card\"><div style=\"font-size:1.8rem\">\ud83c\udf0d<\/div><h4>Managers of Multicultural Teams<\/h4><p>Leaders managing teams across nationalities, where cultural dynamics shape every employee relations situation and most Western frameworks don't apply cleanly.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div class=\"er-card\"><div style=\"font-size:1.8rem\">\ud83c\udfdb\ufe0f<\/div><h4>Nationalisation Programme Managers<\/h4><p>HR staff responsible for Saudization, Emiratisation or equivalent programmes, who manage the specific employee relations dynamics that arise in mixed national and expatriate workforces.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div class=\"er-card\"><div style=\"font-size:1.8rem\">\ud83d\udcca<\/div><h4>Senior Managers<\/h4><p>Directors and senior leaders who want to handle people issues more effectively without escalating everything to HR, building their own employee relations capability.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div class=\"er-card\"><div style=\"font-size:1.8rem\">\ud83d\udd0d<\/div><h4>Employee Relations Specialists<\/h4><p>ER specialists moving into senior roles who want a more structured and contextualised approach to their practice.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"er-gains\">\n  <h2 style=\"font-size:1.45rem;font-weight:800;color:var(--navy);margin:0 0 6px\">What You Will Leave With<\/h2>\n  <p style=\"color:var(--text);margin:0 0 24px;font-size:.95rem\">Practical tools for the situations you face every week.<\/p>\n  <div class=\"er-gain-grid\">\n    <div class=\"er-gain\"><span class=\"er-check\">\u2713<\/span><span><strong>GCC and African labour law reference guide<\/strong>, the key provisions every HR manager needs to know for their jurisdiction<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"er-gain\"><span class=\"er-check\">\u2713<\/span><span><strong>Disciplinary process framework<\/strong>, legally sound and procedurally clear, adapted for your country context<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"er-gain\"><span class=\"er-check\">\u2713<\/span><span><strong>Grievance investigation toolkit<\/strong>, how to investigate impartially, document thoroughly, and reach resolutions that stick<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"er-gain\"><span class=\"er-check\">\u2713<\/span><span><strong>Difficult conversation framework<\/strong>, for performance, conduct, attendance and interpersonal conflict<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"er-gain\"><span class=\"er-check\">\u2713<\/span><span><strong>Performance improvement plan template<\/strong>, realistic, fair, legally defensible<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"er-gain\"><span class=\"er-check\">\u2713<\/span><span><strong>Cross-cultural employee relations guide<\/strong>, navigating national and expatriate dynamics in Gulf workforces<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"er-gain\"><span class=\"er-check\">\u2713<\/span><span><strong>Absence management protocol<\/strong>, return to work conversations, reasonable adjustments, managing patterns<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"er-gain\"><span class=\"er-check\">\u2713<\/span><span><strong>ER culture audit tool<\/strong>, assess where your organisation stands and what needs to change<\/span><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"er-stat\">\n  <h3 style=\"font-size:1.3rem;font-weight:800;margin:0 0 6px\">What Participants Report<\/h3>\n  <p style=\"opacity:.85;margin:0 0 20px;font-size:.92rem\">From follow-up surveys 60 days after the programme<\/p>\n  <div class=\"er-stat-row\">\n    <div class=\"er-stat-item\"><strong>89%<\/strong><span>felt more confident handling<br>disciplinary situations<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"er-stat-item\"><strong>76%<\/strong><span>resolved a grievance more<br>effectively than before<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"er-stat-item\"><strong>400+<\/strong><span>professionals trained across<br>Gulf, Africa and Asia<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"er-stat-item\"><strong>82%<\/strong><span>said difficult conversations<br>became significantly easier<\/span><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"er-quote\">\n    \"We had a disciplinary situation that had been mishandled by a line manager and was heading to the Ministry. After this course I had the framework to understand exactly what had gone wrong and what we needed to do to resolve it. We avoided a formal complaint. The line manager came on the next cohort.\" <br><em style=\"opacity:.7;font-size:.82rem\">HR Manager, Saudi manufacturing company, Riyadh cohort<\/em>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"er-sh\">Programme Outline<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"er-day\">\n  <div class=\"er-day-head\"><div class=\"er-day-num\">1<\/div><strong>Foundations of Employee Relations and Employment Law in Context<\/strong><\/div>\n  <div class=\"er-day-body\">\n    <p><strong>Why this module matters:<\/strong> Most employee relations failures begin with either a misunderstanding of what the law requires, or a misunderstanding of what fair treatment means in the specific cultural context. Module 1 builds both, the legal foundation for the jurisdictions most relevant to participants, and the cultural intelligence to apply it effectively.<\/p>\n    <ul>\n      <li>What employee relations is and why it matters: the business case for fair, consistent ER practice<\/li>\n      <li>GCC labour law essentials: Saudi Labour Law, UAE Federal Decree-Law No. 33, Kuwait Labour Law, the provisions that matter most for day-to-day ER<\/li>\n      <li>Dispute resolution mechanisms: Ministry of Human Resources Saudi Arabia, MOHRE UAE, labour courts in African markets<\/li>\n      <li>Employment law in key African markets: Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, what every manager operating in these markets needs to know<\/li>\n      <li>The psychological contract: what employees expect beyond the written contract, and how violations of it drive grievances<\/li>\n      <li>Nationalisation programmes and ER: Saudization, Emiratisation, and the specific dynamics they create<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"er-day\">\n  <div class=\"er-day-head\"><div class=\"er-day-num\">2<\/div><strong>Managing Discipline: Process, Procedure and Practice<\/strong><\/div>\n  <div class=\"er-day-body\">\n    <p><strong>Why this module matters:<\/strong> Disciplinary situations are the highest-risk employee relations territory. Procedural errors create legal exposure, cultural missteps create resentment, and inconsistency creates unfair dismissal claims. Module 2 builds the knowledge and skills to run a disciplinary process that is legally defensible, procedurally fair, and culturally appropriate.<\/p>\n    <ul>\n      <li>The purpose of a disciplinary process, and what it is not<\/li>\n      <li>Designing a disciplinary policy that is compliant and practically usable in your jurisdiction<\/li>\n      <li>Conducting a thorough disciplinary investigation: gathering evidence, interviewing witnesses, documentation<\/li>\n      <li>Running a disciplinary hearing: structure, the employee's right to respond, decision-making<\/li>\n      <li>Proportionality in sanctions: verbal warning, written warning, final warning, termination<\/li>\n      <li>The most common procedural errors that create legal risk, and how to avoid them<\/li>\n      <li>Role-play: participants conduct a disciplinary investigation and hearing using a GCC-specific scenario<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n    <p><em style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:.85rem\">Session includes: live role-play with GCC-specific disciplinary scenarios<\/em><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"er-day\">\n  <div class=\"er-day-head\"><div class=\"er-day-num\">3<\/div><strong>Managing Grievances and Difficult Conversations<\/strong><\/div>\n  <div class=\"er-day-body\">\n    <p><strong>Why this module matters:<\/strong> Grievances that are handled well in the first 48 hours rarely become formal complaints. Grievances that are avoided, dismissed or mishandled almost always escalate. Module 3 covers both the formal grievance process and the informal conversation skills that prevent most grievances from becoming formal in the first place.<\/p>\n    <ul>\n      <li>Why employees raise grievances, and why, in GCC organisations, they often do not<\/li>\n      <li>Designing a grievance procedure that employees trust: accessibility, impartiality, timeliness<\/li>\n      <li>Investigating a grievance: the same rigour as discipline, a different purpose<\/li>\n      <li>Reaching resolutions that stick: what makes agreements durable<\/li>\n      <li>The difficult conversation framework: preparation, delivery, follow-up, for performance, conduct, attendance and conflict<\/li>\n      <li>Having difficult conversations in high-context, hierarchical cultures: what changes and what does not<\/li>\n      <li>Role-play: participants conduct a grievance meeting and a difficult performance conversation<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n    <p><em style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:.85rem\">Session includes: grievance role-play and difficult conversation practice with peer feedback<\/em><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"er-day\">\n  <div class=\"er-day-head\"><div class=\"er-day-num\">4<\/div><strong>Performance Management and Absence<\/strong><\/div>\n  <div class=\"er-day-body\">\n    <p><strong>Why this module matters:<\/strong> Performance and absence are the two employee relations issues that line managers handle most often and most badly. Module 4 gives managers the skills to address both fairly, clearly, and early, before small problems become expensive ones.<\/p>\n    <ul>\n      <li>The difference between a conduct issue and a performance issue, and why it matters for the process you use<\/li>\n      <li>Performance improvement plans: realistic goal-setting, support structures, review timelines, documentation<\/li>\n      <li>Managing underperformance in cultural contexts where direct criticism is uncomfortable, and why avoidance is more damaging than the conversation<\/li>\n      <li>Short-term and long-term absence management: trigger points, return-to-work conversations, reasonable adjustments<\/li>\n      <li>Distinguishing genuine illness from disengagement, without making assumptions<\/li>\n      <li>Wellbeing as an ER strategy: the evidence on what actually reduces absence rates<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"er-day\">\n  <div class=\"er-day-head\"><div class=\"er-day-num\">5<\/div><strong>Building a Positive ER Culture and Personal Action Planning<\/strong><\/div>\n  <div class=\"er-day-body\">\n    <p><strong>Why this module matters:<\/strong> Organisations with good employee relations cultures have fewer formal disputes, lower turnover, and stronger performance. This is not an accident, it is the result of deliberate investment in manager capability, consistent process, and clear communication. Module 5 maps what that looks like in practice and builds each participant's personal action plan.<\/p>\n    <ul>\n      <li>What characterises organisations where employee relations problems are rare<\/li>\n      <li>Manager capability as the foundation of good ER: what line managers need to know and do<\/li>\n      <li>Communication, fairness and consistency as the three pillars of positive ER culture<\/li>\n      <li>Measuring ER health: grievance rates, turnover patterns, exit interview data, survey insights<\/li>\n      <li>Building an ER capability development plan for your team<\/li>\n      <li>Personal action plan: the three specific things each participant will do differently in the 30 days after this course<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"er-org\">\n  <h3 style=\"font-size:1.15rem;font-weight:800;color:var(--navy);margin:0 0 10px\">\ud83d\udccb For HR Directors and People Leaders<\/h3>\n  <p style=\"color:var(--navy);font-size:.92rem;line-height:1.75;margin:0 0 6px\">Poor employee relations practice is expensive in ways that don't always appear on the balance sheet:<\/p>\n  <div class=\"er-org-list\">\n    <div class=\"er-org-item\">Ministry referrals and labour court cases: preventable with better early-stage handling<\/div>\n    <div class=\"er-org-item\">Turnover driven by perceived unfairness: often the highest-performing employees leave first<\/div>\n    <div class=\"er-org-item\">Manager time: poor ER practice creates problems that consume disproportionate leadership bandwidth<\/div>\n    <div class=\"er-org-item\">Team performance: unresolved conflict and poorly managed performance problems drag down entire teams<\/div>\n    <div class=\"er-org-item\">Nationalisation compliance: ER practice that is perceived as unfair by national employees undermines retention targets<\/div>\n    <div class=\"er-org-item\">Organisational reputation: word travels in GCC professional networks about organisations that treat employees poorly<\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <div style=\"margin-top:24px;padding-top:20px;border-top:1px solid var(--border)\">\n    <strong style=\"color:var(--navy)\">In-House for Your HR Team and Line Managers<\/strong>\n    <p style=\"margin:8px 0 16px;font-size:.9rem;color:var(--navy)\">Most effective when delivered to HR staff and line managers together, using real case scenarios from your organisation and jurisdiction. Contact us to discuss.<\/p>\n    <a href=\"\/en\/contact-us\/?type=inhouse&amp;course=Employee+Relations\" style=\"background:var(--navy);color:#fff;padding:12px 26px;border-radius:8px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:.9rem;display:inline-block\">Request In-House Delivery<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"border:1.5px solid var(--border);border-radius:14px;overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:44px\">\n  <div style=\"background:rgba(58,95,196,.08);padding:18px 24px;border-bottom:1px solid var(--border)\"><strong style=\"color:var(--navy)\">Course At a Glance<\/strong><\/div>\n  <table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:.9rem\">\n    <tr style=\"border-bottom:1px solid var(--border)\"><td style=\"padding:14px 24px;font-weight:600;color:var(--navy);width:35%\">Locations<\/td><td style=\"padding:14px 24px;color:var(--text)\">Riyadh, Dubai, Kuwait City, Lagos, Nairobi, Online<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr style=\"border-bottom:1px solid var(--border);background:var(--bg)\"><td style=\"padding:14px 24px;font-weight:600;color:var(--navy)\">Methodology<\/td><td style=\"padding:14px 24px;color:var(--text)\">50% applied, role-plays, case scenarios, process workshops throughout<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr style=\"border-bottom:1px solid var(--border)\"><td style=\"padding:14px 24px;font-weight:600;color:var(--navy)\">Investment<\/td><td style=\"padding:14px 24px;color:var(--text)\">Group rates available \u00b7 In-house pricing on request<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td style=\"padding:14px 24px;font-weight:600;color:var(--navy)\">What's Included<\/td><td style=\"padding:14px 24px;color:var(--text)\">Workbook, disciplinary and grievance process templates, GCC labour law guide, difficult conversation framework, certificate<\/td><\/tr>\n  <\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"er-sh\">Common Questions<\/h2>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:44px\">\n  <div class=\"er-faq\"><p class=\"er-faq-q\">Is this course suitable for managers who are not HR professionals?<\/p><p class=\"er-faq-a\">Yes. A significant proportion of participants are line managers and team leaders who handle performance, conduct and conflict issues every day without formal training. The course is practical for both HR specialists and people managers, the role-play scenarios reflect both perspectives.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div class=\"er-faq\"><p class=\"er-faq-q\">Does the course cover legal content specific to my country?<\/p><p class=\"er-faq-a\">The course covers the employment law frameworks most relevant to participants in the Gulf and Africa in substantial depth. For jurisdictions where participants have specific questions, we address them during the programme. We are not providing legal advice, we are building the legal literacy to know what questions to ask your counsel and when.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div class=\"er-faq\"><p class=\"er-faq-q\">Can this be delivered in-house using scenarios from our organisation?<\/p><p class=\"er-faq-a\">Yes, and this is the most effective format for employee relations training. In-house delivery lets us build the case studies around your specific workforce composition, sector, and jurisdiction, making the learning immediately applicable to your situation.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"er-sh\">Related Courses<\/h2>\n<div class=\"er-related\">\n  <a class=\"er-rel\" href=\"\/en\/course\/hr-fundamentals-for-young-hr-managers\/\">HR Fundamentals<\/a>\n  <a class=\"er-rel\" href=\"\/en\/course\/recruiting-fundamentals-for-young-hr-managers\/\">Recruiting Fundamentals<\/a>\n  <a class=\"er-rel\" href=\"\/en\/course\/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei-training-course\/\">DEI Training<\/a>\n  <a class=\"er-rel\" href=\"\/en\/course\/communication-skills-for-teams-training-course\/\">Communication Skills for Teams<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"er-cta\">\n  <h3>Employee Relations Problems Don't Resolve Themselves. They Grow.<\/h3>\n  <p>Join HR professionals and managers from across the Gulf, Africa and Asia who have built the skills to handle employee relations situations fairly, consistently, and before they become crises.<\/p>\n  <div style=\"display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:14px;justify-content:center\">\n    <a href=\"\/en\/register\/?course=Employee+Relations\" style=\"background:var(--prof);color:#fff;padding:14px 32px;border-radius:8px;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;font-size:1rem\">Register Now<\/a>\n    <a href=\"\/en\/upcoming-courses\/?course=employee-relations-training-course\" style=\"background:transparent;color:#fff;border:2px solid rgba(255,255,255,.6);padding:14px 32px;border-radius:8px;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;font-size:1rem\">View All Dates<\/a>\n    <a href=\"\/en\/contact-us\/?type=inhouse&amp;course=Employee+Relations\" style=\"background:transparent;color:#fff;border:2px solid rgba(255,255,255,.6);padding:14px 32px;border-radius:8px;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;font-size:1rem\">In-House for My Team<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"scard\">\n                <div class=\"sdate\"><span class=\"sday\">22<\/span><span class=\"smon\">Jun 2026<\/span><\/div>\n                <div>\n                    <div class=\"si-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/matsh.co\/en\/course\/employee-relations-training-course\/\" style=\"color:var(--navy);text-decoration:none;font-weight:700\">Employee Relations Training Course<\/a><\/div>\n                    <div class=\"si-venue\">\ud83d\udccd Riyadh<\/div>\n                    <div class=\"si-badges\"><span class=\"badge bn\">In-person<\/span><\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"sr\">\n                    <div class=\"sr-p\">USD 2,850<\/div>\n                    <div class=\"sr-d\">5 Days<\/div>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/matsh.co\/en\/register\/?cn=Employee%20Relations%20Training%20Course&#038;cid=employee-relations-training-course&#038;venue=Riyadh&#038;date=22%20Jun%202026&#038;price=2850&#038;currency=USD&#038;duration=5%20Days&#038;sid=8041\" class=\"btn btn-a sm\" style=\"margin-top:8px\">Register \u2192<\/a>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div><div class=\"scard\">\n                <div class=\"sdate\"><span class=\"sday\">17<\/span><span class=\"smon\">Aug 2026<\/span><\/div>\n                <div>\n                    <div class=\"si-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/matsh.co\/en\/course\/employee-relations-training-course\/\" style=\"color:var(--navy);text-decoration:none;font-weight:700\">Employee Relations Training Course<\/a><\/div>\n                    <div class=\"si-venue\">\ud83d\udccd Kuwait City<\/div>\n                    <div class=\"si-badges\"><span class=\"badge bn\">In-person<\/span><\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"sr\">\n                    <div class=\"sr-p\">USD 2,850<\/div>\n                    <div class=\"sr-d\">5 Days<\/div>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/matsh.co\/en\/register\/?cn=Employee%20Relations%20Training%20Course&#038;cid=employee-relations-training-course&#038;venue=Kuwait%20City&#038;date=17%20Aug%202026&#038;price=2850&#038;currency=USD&#038;duration=5%20Days&#038;sid=7971\" class=\"btn btn-a sm\" style=\"margin-top:8px\">Register \u2192<\/a>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/matsh.co\/en\/upcoming-courses\/?course=employee-relations-training-course\"\n               style=\"display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:4px;margin-top:12px;font-size:.84rem;font-weight:600;color:var(--teal)\">\n               View all dates for this course \u2192\n             <\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employee Relations Looks Different in Riyadh, Lagos and Jakarta. 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