Croner Training

Employment & HR

Advanced employment law update

Date	1 December 2010
Duration	1 Day
Price	GBP 649 + VAT Membership Price: 324.5 + VAT
Location	London
Venue	The Hatton (etc Venues)
Registration	9.00-9.30
Close of Seminar	5.00
Our code	35860
Also held on	14 June 2011, London

• Why you should attend this seminar
• Who should attend?
• Benefits of attending
• Programme
• Speakers
• Quotes from past delegates
• In-house training
• Are you a Croner publications subscriber?
• 2nd delegate discount
• A total compliance solution
• Outsourcing and event management service

Why you should attend this seminar

Employment law is constantly changing, and it is crucial that companies are up to date with developments in areas such as data protection, discrimination, contracts, dismissals, and resolving workplace disputes. Failure to comply with legal obligations can leave a company open to substantial liability. This one-day seminar is specifically designed to give you an advanced update on recent changes and developments in legislation and case law. It will provide a general overview and update on a number of key areas of employment law, and practical advice for employers.

Who should attend?

• Personnel officers, managers and directors
• HR managers and directors
• In-house lawyers
• Solicitors

Benefits of attending

This seminar will:

1. Provide an update of recent legislative changes
2. Cover in detail all aspects of employment law relating to the employment relationship
3. Enable you to improve the ways in which you handle key decisions
4. Illustrate all the above through recent case law decisions and case studies

Programme

9.00 Coffee and registration

9.30 What’s new in employment law?

• Legislative changes
• Summaries of key employment cases
• General employment law developments

Adele Cox, Solicitor, Shoosmiths

9.50 Contracts of employment

• Introduction to contracts of employment: express and implied terms
• Changing contractual terms
• Terminating a contract
• References

Charlotte Blount, Solicitor, Shoosmiths

11.00 Coffee

11.20 Discrimination law update

• Case law update in all areas of discrimination, sex, race and disability discrimination
• Sexual orientation
• Religion or belief
• Age discrimination
• Equal pay
• Burden of proof
• Sexual and any other discriminatory harassment

Carl Vincent, Partner, Girlings

12.40 Questions

1.00 Lunch

2.00 Unfair dismissal update

• Qualifying periods / jurisdiction
• The importance of procedure
• Constructive dismissal
• Redundancy cases
• Relevance of the Acas code
• Without prejudice discussions
• Use of compromise agreements
• How compensation is calculated
• Whistleblowing

Carl Vincent, Partner, Girlings

2.50 Data protection: case studies

• Employment Practices Data Protection Code
• Obtaining information from applicants and employees
• Dealing with subject access requests
• Investigating suspected misconduct

Carl Vincent, Partner, Girlings

3.30 Coffee

3.45 Atypical workers: part timers,fixed termers and consultants

• Part timers and fixed termers: a checklist to avoid less favourable treatment
• Who is an employee and who is a contractor?
• Latest case law
• Steps to protect your business in borderline cases

Natalie Smith, Associate, Hammonds LLP

Nigel Mackay, Solicitor, Hammonds LLP

4.30 Looking ahead: what’s coming up in Employment Law?

Natalie Smith, Associate, Hammonds LLP

Nigel Mackay, Solicitor, Hammonds LLP

5.00 Close

Speakers

Charlotte Blount advises both companies, public bodies and individuals on contentious and non-contentious areas of employment law, including disciplinaries and grievances, large scale redundancies and restructures, discrimination and harassment, TUPE, and contractual employment documentation. Charlotte has represented clients in both full Tribunal hearings and pre-hearing reviews. Charlotte also has experience of working for a Global company, as she has recently returned from a secondment with BP, where she worked as part of the in-house Employment Legal team advising on a range of employment issues.

Adele Cox is a solicitor in Shoosmiths’ employment team in Birmingham. She advises companies and individuals on both contentious and non-contentious employment law issues including drafting contracts of employment, service agreements and other employee-related documentation and conducting tribunal claims. Adele’s main experience is in providing advice regarding disciplinary and grievance issues, dismissals, redundancy and discrimination issues.

Nigel Mackay is an Associate Solicitor in the employment department based in Hammonds’ London office. He advises on all aspects of employment law and his recent experience includes advising employers on the implementation of redundancies across a number of jurisdictions and management of the consultation process involved, including collective consultation. He has also advised the Respondent in tribunal claims involving race discrimination, sex discrimination, equal pay, unfair dismissal, TUPE related claims and other issues. Nigel also has experience of drafting policies and contractual documents including contracts of employment, casual worker agreements and consultancy agreements. Nigel regularly produces and presents client training sessions. Nigel is a member of the Employment Lawyers’ Association.

Natalie Smith is an Associate Solicitor in the employment department based at Hammonds’ office in London. She advises on all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law and her recent experience includes representing a Respondent in employment tribunal proceedings for sexual orientation discrimination; advising on TUPE 2006 in relation to the change of service provisions for clients in the media and advertising industry; and she has also developed particular expertise in advising on multi-jurisdictional restructure and redundancy programmes and managing collective and individual consultation requirements. Natalie regularly presents training sessions through her firm’s employment law training programme and she has also developed bespoke training for clients on disciplinary and grievance procedures, redundancy consultation and performance management. She is a member of the Employment Lawyers’ Association.

Carl Vincent is a Partner and Head of Employment Law at Kent law firm Girlings. He advises a diverse client base of listed and private companies including insurers, law and accountancy practices, financial services businesses, manufacturers, retailers, construction and property companies, IT businesses and recruitment consultants as well as directors and senior employees on a broad range of employment-related areas. Carl is an experienced employment tribunal advocate and has considerable general litigation experience in both the High Court and the County Court. A contributor to the Practical Law Company’s subscription service on employment law, Carl is a member of the Employment Lawyers’ Association and the Industrial Law Society.

Quotes from past delegates

'The course was great. Informative, clear and I learned a great deal. I would recommend this course to others' Amy Garrs, The Law Society

In-house training

Croner Training can:

• Bring this or any of our other 100 courses directly to your place of work, removing any time, travel and accommodation overheads you may have
• Tailor the programme to meet the specific needs of your organisation
• Maximise the impact and value of your training by having a whole team on a single course at once
• Allow you to choose when and where your training is held to minimise the disruption to your business

With over 1000 speakers from leading companies and consultancies we firmly believe our courses are some of the best in the workplace.

For more information about this service – and a no-obligation quotation – please call the in-house team on 0845 076 0679 or e-mail incompany@cronertraining.co.uk

Are you a Croner publications subscriber?

If so then you are entitled to an additional 5% discount on your booking. Simply enter your Croner BP number on our online booking form to qualify (offer applies to online bookings only).

If you are interested in subscribing to any Croner title and receiving this and other benefits then call 020 8547 3333 for more information.

2nd delegate discount

Booking a second place on this event entitles the second delegate to a 10% discount

A total compliance solution

Whether you’re an HR professional in a multi-national, managing personnel issues in a medium-sized organisation or running a small business we have the HR information you need to get the most out of your staff and comply with the law. From consultancy, and comprehensive online information services to books we have you covered. Simply visit www.croner.co.uk for more information.

Outsourcing and event management service

Kaplan Hawksmere has over 10 years experience in running outsourced and managed training contracts both in the private and public sectors. Our highly skilled team will work with you to effectively manage your events, conferences and training programmes to maximise delegate numbers and revenue and to deliver significant benefits including:

• Financial returns – possible increased revenues or cost reductions
• Risk reduction
• High delivery standards and customer satisfaction
• Flexibility to work with your own teams or independently
• Greater market exposure
• Low cost, exceptional responsive market research

If you would like any further information on this service please contact Neil Vincent on 020 7960 5677 or e-mail neil. vincent@kaplan.co.uk

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