Essential Employment Law Update 2016

Dates:

Leeds: Wednesday, 2 March 2016 
Manchester: Thursday 3 March 2016 

Time: 8.30am registration for a 9am start, finishing at 10.30am  

Venues:

Leeds: Addleshaw Goddard, Sovereign House, Sovereign Street, Leeds LS1 1HQ  
Manchester:  Addleshaw Goddard, 100 Barbirolli Square, Manchester, M2 3A

CPD: 1.5 CPD points for solicitors (unaccredited for barristers) 

Programme:

Session 1: Key recent and future employment law developments

This session will review the key employment law developments from the last 12 months and consider what lies ahead in 2016.  We will cover: 
  
Pay: 

• The National Living Wage
• Gender pay gap reporting

Working time:

• Holiday pay - where are we?
• Carry over of holiday for sick workers
• Holiday entitlement when working hours change
• Is travelling time working time?

Equality law: 

• Round up of important case law developments
• New ACAS guidance

Collective redundancies:

• Round up of important case law developments
• Consequences of failing to file the HR1 form

Family leave issues:

• Extension of shared parental leave to grandparents
• How is shared parental leave working in practice? Are employers enhancing shared parental pay?

Session 2: Effective management of the exit process - settlement agreements and termination payments 
  
This session will explain how to navigate some of the common pitfalls that arise when negotiating settlement agreements and exit payments.  We will consider the following areas:

• Are settlement negotiations always "off the record"?
• Can all types of claim be settled at once?
• Dealing with the tricky aspects of the settlement agreement
• What to do if there is a gap between signing the agreement and termination
• Particular considerations for financial services employers
• The importance of getting the tax treatment right
• The taxation of common types of termination payments
• Proposals for reforming the taxation of termination payments