Societal developments and the impact of COVID-19 have brought in to sharper focus the importance of diversity, inclusion and wellbeing to an organisation's success.

Our flagship Annual Employment Law Masterclass provides insightful sessions on recent and forthcoming legislative changes together with the latest case law developments, plus focused deep-dive sessions on areas of particular current interest to people professionals, business owners, managers and students in HRM.

Session details

We will look at several key discrimination developments, to help you understand how to tackle workplace inequality and the consequences if you do not. We will also cover important new case law, and legislation, including the rights workers have if they refuse to attend work on health and safety grounds, and other emerging trends.

About our speakers

Sara Barrett, Partner

Sara is a partner in the employment team and provides commercial and pragmatic employment law advice and solutions to:

• Commercial businesses of varying sizes, from start-ups to multinational PLC's
• Public sector clients ( largely HE and FE education clients) and not for profit organisations including charities.
• Senior executives on appointment and exit

Sara works with clients to ensure she understands their specific business needs, their objectives and approach to risk so that she can give tailored advice that suits their needs. Sara assists in resolving employment issues (whether strategic business decisions or day to day problems) that may distract clients from managing and achieving their core business objectives.

Sal Chowdhury, Senior Associate

Sal is a Senior Associate working with Sara in the employment team. He offers a general employment practice across a range of sectors, advising on matters from disciplinary and grievance processes to collective redundancies. With the latter, he has collaborated with clients to help design the timetable for the nomination, election, consultation and selection processes.

Sal also has Employment Tribunal litigation experience and has a particular interest in claims involving allegations of discrimination.

Additional sessions in the series

• Covid-19 workplace testing Tues, 09 March from 12:30
• Resilience in times of rapid change Wed, 10 March from 13:00
• Managing a fair disciplinary process Mon, 15 March from 10:00
• Mental health & employment law Tues, 16 March from 09:15

🎁 Gift box draw

One lucky attendee will receive a gift box of branded items (typically given away at our full-day conference). We’ll be drawing the lucky winner’s name out of a hat. Our gift box includes branded note pads, pens, screen cleaner, supermarket trolley token, post-its and tote bag.

Cancellation policy

If you find you are unable to attend the event, please give at least 7 working days notice so we can release your ticket to someone on our waiting list. You can cancel your ticket via the Eventbrite desktop site or send us an email at manchester-events@cipdbranch.co.uk and we will cancel your ticket.

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