Employment and Discrimination Law for Professional Partnerships
Professional partnerships are structured differently to other commercial organisations. They also have particular vulnerabilities that require special consideration and attention. Claims of discrimination, not only carry the potential of immense financial penalties, but the reputational damage to your firm can be enormous. To protect your partnership from these dangers you must demonstrate up-to-date knowledge and practice of fast-evolving developments in employment and discrimination law.
Individual benefits:
- Be confident of your employment law knowledge and its applicability to your partners and employees
- Get right up to date on discrimination law and diversity and understand the particular vulnerabilities of partnerships
- Get to grips with the legislation relating to flexible working and age discrimination
Organisational benefits:
- Avoid expensive discrimination claims
- Prevent avoidable reputational damage to your firm
- Create a workforce confident in dealing with employment law issues
- Get right up to date on discrimination law and diversity and understand the particular vulnerabilities of partnerships
What the training covers:
- Partners and partnerships: an overview of essential aspects
- Diversity and discrimination law update
- Age: the partnership challenge
- Recruiting for partnerships: upgrading your recruitment policies, procedures and practices
- Managing partner performance: what are the practical considerations?
- Does the typical partnership culture and ethos work for or against flexibility and family?
- What steps can you take to protect your partnership?
- Action planning for the future