The Annual Conference: Employment Law and Practice

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The Programme

09:20
Chair's welcome
Paul Secher, Head of JSB's Employment Law Faculty
09:30
Employment Contracts
Michael Bradshaw, Partner, Charles Russell
  • Employment status – new cases
  • Agency workers regulations – preparing for new law
  • Working time accrual of holiday during sickness absence
  • Right to request time off for training
  • Restrictive: covenants and confidentiality
  • Vetting and barring - the employer’s responsibilities under new rules
  • Contract illegality and sham terms
10:30
Coffee
10:45
Discrimination and Parental rights

Audrey Williams, Partner, Human Resources Group, Head of Discrimination Law, Eversheds

  • The Equality Act 2010: key areas of change
  • Equal pay – effect of new rules
  • Pre-employment health questionnaires
  • Age discrimination - key cases and update on the default retirement age
  • Recent case law on religion, race, disability and sex discrimination
  • Cases on new paternity rights
12:00
TUPE

Jonathan Hearn, Legal Director, DLA Piper

  • An overview of TUPE law
  • TUPE tactics involved in outsourcing parts of your business
  • TUPE issues when bidding for contracts
  • TUPE tactics in buying or selling a business
  • What's different about transfers involving the public sector
  • Pensions issues
  • Claims you might inherit, and how to protect against these
  • Rules about employee data, consultation and trade unions
  • How to change terms and conditions or make redundancies around a TUPE transfer
12:45
Lunch
13:45
HR Case study: Managing attendance and sickness

Russell Turner, Operations Manager, Marks and Spencer 

  • Immediate OH implications of the Black Report
  • How can they be aligned with a strategic corporate wellbeing plan
  • Looking forward - potential long term implications 
14:30
Dismissal law update

Mark Mansell, Partner, Allen and Overy

  • Acas code of practice
  • Compromise agreements - latest changes
  • The recession and tribunal trends
  • Latest case law developments
15:15
Coffee
15:30
Social media and the employment relationship

Will Winch, Solicitor, Mishcon de Reya

  • Contracts of employment – getting them right
  • Express terms and implied terms – implied term of trust and confidence, fidelity and good faith
  • Discrimination, harassment and bullying in the workplace via web 2.0
  • Vicarious liability of employers in the social networking arena
  • Discipline and dismissal issues
  • Social media and your Internet use policy
  • Data protection and information management
16:15
New government, new employment law?

Paul Callaghan, Partner, Taylor Wessing

  • Reducing the burden of regulation
  • Simplifying employment law
  • Withdrawing from the Social Chapter
  • No more EWCs, Works Councils, Paternity Leave?
16:45
Chairs closing remarks and close of conference
17:00
Wine and cheese reception
Join us for our wine and cheese reception providing an excellent opportunity to network with your HR peers.

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The Speakers

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Michael Bradshaw

Michael Bradshaw is a partner in the Employment and Pensions Service Group of City firm, Charles Russell LLP. Michael specialises in all aspects of employment law and has built up particular expertise in the area of atypical workers and the employment rights of agency staff. Michael acted for Cable & Wireless in the widely reported Muscat –v- Cable & Wireless case and has experienced the treatment of this issue by the Tribunals and Courts, all the way up to the Court of Appeal. Muscat remains a key decision in understanding when employment rights may arise, as identified in James –v- Greenwich Council. He advises a range of clients on these issues and his clients in this area include national and international employment agencies. He regularly provides client training on the matter and speaks on the subject. Michael otherwise provides advice to businesses on the full range of employment matters, including managing dismissals, Employment Tribunal claims, reorganisations and redundancies and TUPE transfers. His expertise in this area was also recognised by the Legal 500 (2006 Edition) and he is a regular contributor to the HR and personnel press.

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