A RESIDENTIAL COURSE TAKING A PRACTICAL LOOK AT THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN EMPLOYMENT LAW

EMPLOYMENT LAWSUMMER SCHOOL

15th ANNUAL

• All inclusive residential summer school at one of Cambridge University’s best known and most beautiful colleges

• Expert course tutors sharing practical experience

• A variety of lectures, case studies and workshops, with ample opportunity to question the lecturers both in class and informally

• Full notes are provided to act as an invaluable reference tool when you get back to the office

• A full and varied social programme has been designed to complement your stay in Cambridge and to give you a great opportunity to make new contacts in your profession

• Delegates completing the course receive a specially designed Certificate of Attendance

• Bring your team – Group discounts apply• Focussed update on developments in

an area of the law subject to substantial review and change

Some of the many reasons that the Summer School has proved so popular

Past delegates have included HR directors // HR professionals // Company secretaries // Finance directors // In-house lawyersMany of our organisations come back year after year

THIS YEAR WE WILL BE TAKING THE SUMMER SCHOOL TO CAMBRIDGE AND STUDYING AT BEAUTIFUL CLARE COLLEGE

ENQUIRIES HOTLINE 0161 235 4545WWW.DLAPIPER.COM/ADVANCE

Optional Back-to-Basics workshop and early registration during the evening of Tuesday 6th September 2016

IF I WAS TO DESCRIBE MY EXPERIENCE IN ARTISTIC TERMS, THE COLLEGE PROVIDED A GILDED FRAME FOR A MASTERPIECE THAT WAS THE SUMMER SCHOOLAberdeen City Council

FANTASTIC EXPERIENCE. WORKSHOPS EXTREMELY USEFUL AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH OTHER HR PROFESSIONALS VERY VALUABLEMagnox

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EMPLOYMENT LAWSUMMER SCHOOL

15th ANNUAL

The Annual Employment Law Summer School has continued to be extremely successful. It is now in it’s 15th year and has become an established fixture in many HR professionals’ diaries.

THE SUMMER SCHOOL HAS BEEN DESIGNED FOR DELEGATES TO:

• Focus on the latest developments in employment law

• Learn from the intensive programme in unique surroundings away from the usual distractions

• Develop skills in employment law and, more importantly, get practical advice about how to apply it to your business

• Socialise and network with fellow delegates who will undoubtedly be experiencing similar issues to yourself

• Discuss issues with the trainers formally and informally over the three days

• Bring a team. Opportunity to develop your team outside of your usual working environment.

• Mixture of lectures and smaller workshops

• Interaction and discussion encouraged throughout the course

• Emphasis on practical application of information covered

• Real life case studies and situations

• Rapid fire sessions – giving you the opportunity to raise your queries on any employment law topic

The Summer School’s full and varied social timetable has been designed to complement the thorough working programme and ensure delegates have the opportunity to network informally and to make the most of their stay in Cambridge and the historic college surroundings.

SUMMER SCHOOL – COURSE STYLE

Group discounts apply and seminar rooms can be made available for team meetings or team building exercises.

BRING YOUR TEAM!

THE ENTIRE SUMMER SCHOOL HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY FASCINATING AND THE VERY INCLUSIVE SYTLE OF SESSION DESIGN/ DELIVERY HAS BEEN A JOYFUL EXPERIENCE

Sheffield Hallam University

VERY HELPFUL BEING IN A RELATIVELY NEW ROLE. BEST COURSE I HAVE EVER ATTENDED

Wilko Retail

AN INFORMATIVE, FUN AND EXCITING WAY TO LEARN

Brother International Europe Ltd

WHAT OUR DELEGATES SAY

ENQUIRIES HOTLINE 0161 235 4545WWW.DLAPIPER.COM/ ADVANCE

This optional workshop will be run between 5pm and 7pm on the evening of Tuesday 6th September. It was developed because we realised that the Summer School caters for a range of levels of experience and knowledge. The workshop outlines the basic principles of employment law allowing everyone to start the Summer School the next day on a similar footing. Not only do those who have not studied employment law find it useful but many delegates attend it as a refresher to remind them of principles they have learnt before but have not used recently. The workshop is led by Stephen Taylor who is a lecturer at Exeter University.

WHAT IS THE BACK-TO-BASICS WORKSHOP?

WEDNESDAY 7TH – FRIDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER 2016 CLARE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGEPROGRAMME

EARLY REGISTRATION TUESDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER 2016

Optional back to basics workshop Stephen Taylor It is not essential to attend the back to basics workshop but many delegates, especially those who have not been to our summer school before, find it a useful way of making contact with other delegates and refreshing some important principles prior to the start of the course.

• The employment contract

• Unfair dismissal law

• The basic principles of discrimination

Buffet Dinner

DAY ONE WEDNESDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER 2016

Introductions to the speakers and an outline of the 3 day course

New Developments in Employment Law and future reforms

We will cover:

The impact for HR professionals and employment lawyers ( if any) of the vote in the Referendum on Brexit. including TUPE, discrimination, working time.

Key developments and risks for employers in holiday calculations, holiday pay assessment and historical claims for holiday pay. This session will cover all key holiday pay issues including the impact of decisions for your businesses in Lock v British Gas Trading and others and Bear Scotland v Fulton. We will also look at the tricky issues, which often arise with holiday including holiday and sickness, part time work, and Working Time Regulations holiday contrasted with contractual holiday entitlement. We will use case studies to illustrate how holiday pay claims can be managed to minimise risk to your business including distinguishing between WTR holidays and contractual entitlements.

The National Living Wage – we will look at how this is calculated, who is entitled and the impact for employers.

Judicial review of employment tribunal fees and the compensation cap in tribunals – what is the current state of the law, following permission to appeal to the Supreme Court being granted to Unison and what developments can we expect? What impact have fees and the compensation cap had? The impact of devolution of Scottish Employment Tribunals. In April 2016, the government is introducing financial penalties for employers who fail to pay tribunal awards. We will look at the new regime and the impact. A brief general round up of the current costs, fees and penalties system in employment tribunals will be provided.

New rules are expected on postponements of tribunal hearings and we will look at how these operate in practice.

Equal Pay and the impact of Gender Pay Reporting obligations. We will look at the Regulations affecting all employers with more than 250 employees and the data which must be supplied - mean and median figures, quartiles, bonuses and commission.

The Posted Workers Directive is being amended giving employees who work for contractors enhanced rights to make claims in a chain of contractors. We will look at the impact for employers and how risks can be managed.

We will provide an update on the Modern Slavery Act reporting obligations and how these have impacted employers. What do you need to do?

Data protection

We will look at the recent European Court decision in Barbules cu v Romania – 61496/08 (2016) and how this impacts an employer’s right to examine an employee’s emails and data at work as well as the current state of the law for companies trying to export employment data to the US.

Rapid fire questions

Our traditional rapid fire time is your chance to ask any questions (which you can send anonymously in advance) on any employment issue – whether it is in our programme or not.

Redundancy/variation of contract

Most employers are constantly wanting to make changes to employment contracts to increase efficiencies and bring uniformity or save costs. We will work through an extended case study on a contract variation exercise where employment is terminated to achieve the change in contract terms i.e. a technical “redundancy situation” - both collective and individual. We will discuss what happens when employees try to elongate or thwart the process through stress absence and how this is best managed. We will discuss best practice for achieving employee buy in and tactics for achieving a variation to terms even though they are to the employees’ detriment. We will discuss the role of trade unions and employee representatives and how best to manage the collective as well as the individual side. We will also cover proposed potential changes to obligations on collective consultation in the UK. There will be a TUPE angle as part of the workforce recently transferred into the business and is claiming protection for their employment contract terms. Another section of the workforce may be outsourced as a costs savings exercise and there are some arguments about who is assigned to the outsourced part of the business.

ACTIVITIESDinner in the Great Hall followed by quiz in the college bar

DAY TWO THURSDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER 2016

Settlement Agreements and the death of the £30,000 tax free exemption

We will look at current best practice on settlement agreements and how to draft them. We will analyse a case study where an employer is trying to persuade a poor performing employee to enter into a settlement agreement and the tactics which may be applied. We will cover the changes to tax on termination payments and also the tax treatment of personal injury, holiday and ex gratia payments and how the new regime works.

Case study – Managing poor performance

The case study will contrast using performance improvement plans, warnings and informal processes in an effort to achieve a speedy settlement. What tactics will you apply, running meetings, scripts, grievances and outcomes?

Collective employee issues

• Employee representatives - roles and responsibilities

• Trade Unions and reform – ECHR claims trade unions – Boots, Balpa The Trade Union Bill 2015-16 picketing, ballots etc

• Employee forums

• Works Councils

• European Works Councils

Rapid fire questions

Another opportunity for you to ask any of your knotty questions on any employment related subject.

ACTIVITIESPunting on the River Cam followed by dinner in a local restaurant

WEDNESDAY 7TH – FRIDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER 2016 CLARE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

FOR FURTHER DETAILS CALL RACHEL COOK ON 0161 235 4562 OR EMAIL: RACHEL.COOK@DLAPIPER.COMOR ANNA JUNIPER ON 0207 796 6632 OR EMAIL: ANNA.JUNIPER@DLAPIPER.COM

Adam Hartley UK Head of Employment, DLA Piper

Adam Hartley has in depth experience of employment issues arising in the financial services sector and, in particular, the insurance sector. In particular, Adam’s capabilities include advising and managing international restructures as well as solving employee disputes, injunctions and other high court employment matters both in the UK and throughout Europe. As well as representing financial services clients, Adam also acts for a number of clients in the recruitment, medical, technology and retail sectors. Adam has a masters in Human Resources Management and his dissertation focused on the Acquired Rights Directive/TUPE.

Jonathan Hearn, DLA Piper and Mary Clarke, DLA Piper

Jonathan and Mary are both senior practising employment lawyers and advise major UK and international employers on all aspects of employment law, contentious and non-contentious. Both Mary and Jonathan are also principal employment law trainers for DLA Piper, developing and delivering numerous in-house programmes, as well as being regular speakers on our Advance public programmes. Jonathan and Mary have both played an integral part in the design and presentation of previous Summer Schools and this year will be co-hosting the programme.

OTHER SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE

Stephen Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, University of Exeter Business School

Stephen teaches employment law, employee resourcing and reward management on MA and MBA courses. Previously he taught at the Manchester School of Management at UMIST and before that held a series of personnel management posts in the NHS and hotel industry. He is the CIPD’s national examiner for its ‘Managing in a Business Context’ paper and is the author/co-author of five books on employer resourcing and human resources management topics.

LEADING SPEAKERS

DAY THREE FRIDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER 2016

Family friendly update

• Update on grandparental leave, unpaid parental leave

• Impact of Children and Families Act 2014 – what is the impact of changes for shared parental leave and pay and what are the challenges for employers?

• Time off arrangements,

• Surrogacy

• Transgender discrimination

• Human rights – where are we?

• No limits on holiday – how are employers managing no limit on holiday as a means of managing work/life balance.

Review of the key employment case law, of the past year. and a look forward to future anticipated case law.

Questions

Your final opportunity to pose any unanswered questions.

Close and lunch

Advance can deliver bespoke courses for your organisation. If you have any training needs please contact us to discuss further.

Call Rachel Cook on 0161 235 4562 or email rachel.cook@dlapiper.com or Anna Juniper on 0207 796 6632 or email: anna.juniper@dlapiper.com

IN-COMPANY TRAINING

WHAT OUR DELEGATES SAY

THE SUMMER SCHOOL SURPASSED MY EXPECTATIONS. I REALLY ENJOYED THE COURSE. I THOUGHT IT WAS EXTREMELY WELL ORGANISED. I WOULD RATE THE SUMMER SCHOOL HIGHLY FOR BOTH THE EDUCATIONAL CONTENT AND NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES

Sapient Ltd

EXCELLENT RANGE OF RELEVANT TOPICS COVERED WITH CASE STUDIES TO DISCUSS AND APPLY CODES OF PRACTICE. A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO NETWORK WITH HR PROFESSIONALS WITH VARIED EXPERIENCE ACROSS SECTORSWest Yorkshire Fire and Rescue

VERY ENJOYABLE EXPERIENCE WITH RELEVANT CONTENT. ALL PRESENTERS DELIVERED MATERIAL IN AN UNDERSTANDABLE WAY AND ALWAYS HAPPY TO TAKE QUESTIONS. I WOULD ADVISE EVERYONE TO ATTEND THE SUMMER SCHOOLUPS

THE SUMMER SCHOOL WAS BRILLIANT! COULD NOT FAULT ITEast Sussex County Council

GREAT AGENDA/ TOPICS COVERED – A REALLY GOOD OVERVIEW OF KEY EMPLOYMENT LAW TOPICS, WITH SOME VERY USEFUL DETAIL TOO. PRACTICAL, PRAGMATIC GUIDANCE AND A VARIED PRESENTATION STYLE MADE IT VERY ENGAGING THROUGHOUTBeldron International

ABOUT ADVANCE

We provide training courses, seminars and conferences for everyone with an interest in the legal topis including HR professionals and line managers from both private and public sector organisations.Our training programmes help senior executives and operational managers increase their understanding of how legislation and regulation affects how they manage their business. Our seminar style programmes are interactive, covering the practical impacts of current and future legislation and case decisions. Our courses are led by experienced lecturers who are at the front line both as practising lawyers and HR professionals. Our courses are highly valued and a large number of delegates and organisations are repeat bookers.

• Operational for 20 years• Continuing Professional Development–

All our programmes are suitable for HR and Personnel Professional Development and 15 CPD points are available

• 96% of delegates rated our courses excellent or good

• Numbers limited to ensure maximum delegate satisfaction

• Money-back guarantee in the unlikely event of the course failing to meet expectations

• All trainers are experienced lawyers or HR consultants who understand the practicalities of the law

• Coursebooks are written by a HR specialist

• All our courses are complemented with programme, coursebook, checklists and summaries, comprehensive slides and interactive case studies

16.30-18.30 Optional early registration

17.00 Back-to-Basics workshop

19.00 Buffet dinner and drinks

8.00 Breakfast

8.30 Coffee and registration

9.00 Start of Summer School

17.00 End of day one

19.30 Dinner followed by quiz

8.00 Breakfast

9.00 Start day two

17.00 End of day two

18.00-19.15 Punting on the River Cam

19.30 Dinner at a local restaurant

8.00 Breakfast

9.00 Start of day three

13.00 Close of Summer School followed by buffet lunch

Lunch, coffee and tea breaks will be taken at appropriate times during the day

SUMMER SCHOOL TIMETABLE

FOR PROGRAMME DETAILS PLEASE CONTACT RACHEL COOK ON 0161 235 4562 OR EMAIL RACHEL.COOK@DLAPIPER.COM

INTERNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW CONFERENCE 2016

Pembroke College, Oxford (Residential) 19th-20th September 2016 (optional arrival 18th September)

Increasingly HR practitioners and in-house counsel from all types of organisations expanding globally need to have a grasp of the key principles and practices in the different countries. The aim of our International Employment Law Conference is to arm you to understand essential employment law issues across multiple jurisdictions and to give you guidance on key issues when employing people internationally. The style of presentation is practical, informal, interactive and using multiple case study examples.

Our unique International Employment Law Conference brings together specialist employment lawyers from key International jurisdictions to guide you through their legislation and practice and explain how it differs from the UK. It will be of particular value to those who have responsibilities for employment practice and law in jurisdictions in addition to the UK. Of course we cannot make you experts on all aspects of international employment law but we will identify essential points. We will also supply you with a course handbook to support the presentations which will aid your understanding of different jurisdictions.

You will have the opportunity to hold discussions with our lawyers. We have also designed a full and varied programme of presentations and talks by experts from the relevant jurisdictions. Delegates will have the opportunity to network and the planned social events will ensure you can make the most of your stay in Oxford and the unique historic university environment.

CLARE COLLEGE

Clare College is the second oldest of Cambridge’s thirty-one colleges (its foundation having been anticipated, among surviving institutions, only by Peterhouse).

It was founded in 1326, and generously endowed a few years later by Lady Elizabeth de Clare (Lady de Burgh), a granddaughter of King Edward I (1272-1307). In 1336 King Edward III (1327-77) granted licence ‘to his cousin Elizabeth de Burgo’ to establish a collegium (the word originally meant ‘a corporation of scholars’, not, as in modern English ‘college’, the buildings in which the scholars were housed); although it was in the first instance referred to unspecifically as ‘the House of the University of Cambridge’, it became known as Clare Hall as early as 1339 (the present simplified title, ‘Clare’, dates from 1856).

The college boasts 17th century architecture, stunning gardens and a convenient location in central Cambridge, either side of the River Cam.

YOUR STAY AT CLARE COLLEGE

All meals and accommodation are included in the price of the Summer School. Accommodation will be provided in ensuite rooms. These are student rooms so although they are spotlessly clean they are student accommodation so rooms are quite basic. All rooms have towels (bath and hand), bedlinen, a welcome pack (containing shampoo, soap etc), and tea and coffee making facilities. All bedrooms have wireless and wired connections, the meeting rooms are wireless. The Wi-Fi Network is a ticket per user service, we will provide you with a ticket on arrival.

Most of our meals will be taken in the college’s magnificent great hall which is an experience in itself.

Car ParkingThe college has an arrangement with a nearby sports ground where cars can be parked. There is a charge each day and these spaces need to be booked in advance so please contact us if you wish to book one. We can confirm the price and invoice you when booking a place.

We will send full travel details with the joining instructions nearer the time which will include car parks close by and city maps.

Social ProgrammeThe social programme gives you the chance to meet and network with fellow delegates which, from our experience, is a hugely important part of this kind of course. As well as being here to learn we also want you to enjoy the experience of staying in such a beautiful college. This years activities include dinner out at a local restaurant, punting on the River Cam and a quiz night.

TUESDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER 2016

WEDNESDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER 2016

THURSDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER 2016

FRIDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER 2016

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FEES The delegate fee includes a comprehensive coursebook, all meals and activities.

£1850.00 (PLUS £370.00 VAT) £2220.00

EARLY BOOKING DISCOUNTS

A discount is available for bookings received by 31st July 2016.

£1600.00 (PLUS £320.00 VAT) £1920.00

Unless by prior agreement, payments have to be made before the programme takes place. Bookings will be acknowledged with a VAT receipt and joining instructions.

NOTES

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT This programme is suitable for HR and Personnel Professional Development and 15 CPD hours are available.

CANCELLATIONS, SUBSTITUTIONS AND TRANSFERS If you are not able to attend, you may send a substitute. However, a refund cannot be made for cancellations received less than 6 weeks before the course is scheduled to take place.

DATABASE Your details will be held on the DLA Piper database. If you would like to be removed please contact Advance 101 Barbirolli Square, Manchester M2 3DL

There may be occasions when changes in programme content, speakers, timing and location have to be made for reasons outside our control. We maintain the right to decline bookings if they are not in line with course training objectives.

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DATE AND VENUE

Clare College, Trinity Lane, Cambridge CB2 1TLTel: +44 (0)1223 333 200

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