Law in Practice

Employment Law Update - Law on the Road™

09:00
09:00 Registration and coffee
09:30
Employment relationship
  • ‘Employee’ and ‘worker’ status – new guidelines
  • Agency staff – latest developments
  • Holidays and working time
  • Trust and confidence duty
  • Vicarious liability
  • Bonuses – new cases
  • Sick pay – long-term absence
10:45
Coffee
11:00
Family rights and flexibility
  • Work and Families Act
  • Maternity leave and pay extension
  • Returning to work – what is the same job?
  • Keeping in touch days (KITs)
  • Flexible working rights enhancement
  • Future of flexible working
  • New paternity leave scheme
  • Work/Life balance issues
11:45
Discrimination law update
  • Harassment by employers and third parties
  • Changes to Sex Discrimination Act
  • Personal and corporate liability for bullying
  • Equal pay update – ‘successor’ claims
  • Equality Act – and gender equality duty
  • Religious symbols and dress – new case law
  • Religion or belief rule changes
  • Sexual orientation – new case law
  • Age laws – cases decided
  • The ‘Heydey’ legal challenge
  • Disability discrimination the changing law
  • ‘Reasonable adjustment’ issues
  • Implementing the new rules
  • Latest case law
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Grievances, discipline and dismissal
  • Statutory rules and Acas code
  • Conducting investigations and hearings
  • Employer’s liability for stress
  • Dispute resolution- the future
  • Management of tribunal cases
  • Compromise agreements – practicalities
  • Without prejudice decisions
  • Proposed new law
14:30
TUPE Update
  • 2006 Regulations in practice
  •  Liabilities on a transfer
  • Restructures and dismissals
  • Port-transfer harmonisations
  • Case law update
15:15
Tea
15:30
Legislation and caselaw round-up
  • Employment Bill
  • Immigration, Asylum and Nationality
  • Corporate Manslaughter
  • Discrimination Law Review – Single Equality Bill
  • Whistle blowing - latest
16:30
End of workshop

 

 
 
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An excellent, informative update.

— Karen Williams, Personnel Officer,
Royal College for the Blind

See you next year.

— Andrew Timmins, HR Manager,
SGB Services Ltd

A very good workshop – the facilitator made it enjoyable and presented some good experiences of applying the law in everyday situations.This made the course more enjoyable and better than other legal overviews that I have attended.

— Paul Cottam, HR Manager,
Lear Corporation

The trainer’s practical knowledge, along with her previous HR and current legal experience were invaluable. She offered plenty of opportunity to ask questions and the relaxed format of the day, plus the small group size, allowed us to gain maximum benefit

— Jayne Stutt, HR Advisor,
NCHA