Presented by Castle Employment Group, Torque Law and Freedom Alignment Method.

As always, our complimentary employment law update provides the opportunity to refresh your own employment law knowledge and skills and provides an important contribution to your continued professional development.

Employers will face more compliance challenges in 2021 than ever before.

This webinar is designed for business owners, HR professionals and those with people management responsibility who need to have a basic understanding of employment law. The webinar is interactive through real life case studies, where you will have an opportunity to practice new skills and discuss issues openly to maximise learning.

As ever on our zoom events there will be time to breakout and chat. The session will be interactive so please have your camera's on.

Agenda

1pm – Welcome from Castle Employment Group

1.10pm – Torque Law, Tiggy Clifford and Emma Whiting - Employment Law Update.

Tiggy and Emma will be outlining key developments and answering questions on hot topics including:

Brexit

Changes to right to work checks from January and June 2021

Impact on GDPR and employer privacy notices

Agile working

An overview of issues facing employers who are moving towards longer term work from home or agile working arrangements

Freelance contractors

Getting ready for the IR35 changes due in April 21, including the use of status determination policies and the government’s CEST tool

Steps to take when engaging freelance contractors (whether covered by IR35 or not)

GDPR

Update on recent cases and fines

ICO guidance on dealing with Data Subject Access Requests

Discrimination

The factors which can be taken into account when deciding whether workplace discrimination can be justified – the so called ‘costs plus’ rule from Heskett v Secretary of State for Justice

2.10pm –10-minute refreshment break

2.20pm – Freedom Alignment Method, Kirsty Bortoft - Dissolving stress & anxiety of your workforce and 2021 empowerment

3.00pm – Thank you and finish

Who Should Attend?

• HR Directors

• HR Managers

• HR Assistants

• Operation and production management who engage with people management issues

• Anyone with people responsibility across an organisation

Our lives are busy and sometimes, best plans go awry but please remember, our speakers and team are sharing their expertise and giving up their time to deliver useful and important content to you. So please, if you book onto this webinar and cannot attend, do try to let us know in advance.

Slides of this presentation will be shared to those who attend along with a post-webinar delegate pack.

Thank you, The Castle Employment Group Team.