Course description
This live broadcast session will cover the recent key changes to employment law.
Suitable for HR professionals and lawyers, it will provide you with a fast paced and quick hitting guide, and will explore what the future holds. Join presenter Kate Shepherd as she guides you through the very latest position on employment status, unfair dismissal and redundancy, working time, settlement agreements, and much more.
Kate regularly trains and advises a wide array of employers from small and medium sized enterprises through to PLCs, charities and multi-national companies, and is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association, so be sure to tune in to benefit from her expertise in this area.
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Introduction
This highly interactive virtual classroom seminar covers the most important recent changes to all aspects of employment law. Whilst the content at each session will vary depending on what is topical... it is a ‘must attend’ session for the busy practitioner and HR professional covering all the need-to-know cases and legislation.
Employment expert Kate Shepherd will also guide you through the changes in employment law and what lies ahead.
What You Will Learn
This live and interactive session will cover the following:
- What are Labour’s plans for employment law? Including the new Employment Law Rights Bill
- Key changes to the Working Time Regulations, TUPE, and the Equality Act from January 2024
- Employment status - the latest decisions on workers/employee/self-employed status and the gig economy
- Contracts of employment
- Unfair dismissal and redundancy - new laws protecting employees from redundancy for pregnancy, family leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave. The latest position on fire and rehire and plans for unfair dismissal rights from the first day of employment
- Working time - latest position on overtime, holiday pay, sick pay, rolled up pay, commission payments and on call payments
- Discrimination and the Equality Act 2010 and changes from January 2024
- Family friendly rights including the amendments to flexible working laws, changes to paternity leave and Carer’s Leave Act 2023 and plans for parental rights from the first day of employment
- Menopause - round up of key cases and the latest EHRC’s guidance
- Settlement agreements
- What's in the pipeline - including the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023, Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Act 2023 and Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act 2023
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