Eversheds Sutherland training and events

Eversheds Sutherland provide thought-leading briefings and conferences, as well as core courses, to help practitioners develop their understanding of law and regulation in the workplace. We work with independent experts and government agencies to help organisations understand new legal requirements prior to implementation dates. We also aim to help delegates with their own personal professional development and to encourage better practice.

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Upcoming events, webinars and training

15th Annual Labour Relations Conference - beyond Brexit together apart?
When a group of people act together the more powerful have to listen. The TUC is right about this*. They are also right that some of the UK’s leading companies have vital union relationships, that the union movement is getting smaller and that members and activists are getting older. But isn’t an internal WhatsApp group a form of ‘union’? What about an online petition, a Facebook page or a letter to The Times with multiple signatures?
Advanced employee investigation interview skills and tactics
In recognition of the rising expectations judges have of an employer's investigation process and documentation, and the ever increasing complexity of some employee investigations, more and more organisations are recognising that the conduct of investigations is a specialist role, and developing in-house teams of dedicated management investigators.
AICPA & CIMA U.S. Tax Reform Conference 2018
US tax reform has a global impact, the specific implications of which continue to evolve. Eversheds Sutherland's global tax team is focused on ensuring that US and non-US taxpayers understand and are prepared for the implications of the changes brought on by US and international tax reform, and we are excited to be the lead sponsor of the AICPA and CIMA Tax Reform Conference to help further explore the practical implications for our clients.
Austrian employment law training - practical guidance and local insights
Although there are similarities, it is dangerous to consider the German and Austrian employment law systems to be one and the same. Austrian law is distinct in many ways, most importantly in relation to probationary periods, the termination of employment contracts and severance. There are also sufficient differences in contract law to make the use of one model employment contract, for German and Austrian employees, a potentially expensive error for employers.
Avoiding victimisation - infamy, infamy...
Every experienced HR professional will have to deal with a disgruntled employee who cannot move on from an incident, or disappointment, at work. A fair grievance process may have been followed and a thorough investigation held, but some employees simply cannot get over an outcome. This workshop provides a safe space to talk about the warning signs and the steps you can take.
Belgian employment law training - practical guidance and local insights
An employer found guilty of discrimination by a Belgian court can face a sentence of up to one year in prison. There is no concept of redundancy in Belgium and no concept of unfair dismissal either.
Bereavement, grief and work - change and adjustment
“Take as long as you need...”. There is lots of evidence of good practice in the handling of bereavement in the workplace. Work can be therapeutic or a final straw. Every case is different. Length of service, seniority, past record, and the empathy level and influence of a line manager often affect an organisation’s response. So, too, do the circumstances of the death, raising questions about consistency of treatment.
Business immigration update - UK visa sponsorship and licence management
This Business immigration update - UK visa sponsorship and licence management training course is relevant to HR and recruitment professionals from Tier 2 and 5 sponsors (including potential sponsors) who use the sponsor management system or have responsibility for a sponsor licence. Knowledge of the points-based system is assumed.
Central and Eastern European HR: employment law in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia and Slovakia
The Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have distinctive employment law frameworks which an increasing number of HR practitioners and inhouse lawyers must come to terms with.
Complex employment disputes - cases from hell
Sometimes, from apparently simple facts, an employment dispute can cause damage far beyond the costs and issues that had initially appeared to be at stake, while consuming vast amounts of time and resources.
Current developments in employment law - Labour crunch?
In the Autumn, reforms to immigration law should clarify employers’ access to skilled and unskilled labour from the EU and worldwide. But in the search for talent, there is evidence that employers are tapping into previously under-utilised groups including veterans, ex-offenders and the long-term unemployed*.
Delivering successful campus development projects - effectively risk managing the pitfalls
In an increasingly global market quality and innovation in campus facilities can be a key differential for any institution. It attracts talent and promotes the brand. But developing state of the art buildings to live and learn on campus is a complex business. Every development is unique and has its own issues to protect but successfully delivering on time and on budget requires careful structured planning to eliminate and mitigate potential risk.
Director responsibility for safety - Punishing fines and individual prosecution
Directors including board directors, in-house lawyers and experienced HR, health and safety and facilities professionals.
Driving for work - investigation and law
Individuals who drive for your organisation are invariably your greatest health and safety risk; whether the vehicle is work supplied or personally owned. Employers must be able to demonstrate that they take their responsibility seriously and that all of their drivers are properly trained, fit, licensed and insured and that all vehicles are fit for purpose.
Dutch employment law training - practical guidance and local insights
It is commonly believed that it is difficult and expensive to terminate an employment contract in the Netherlands. Employee rights are well protected under Dutch law, especially in dismissal cases, but employers are able to swiftly adjust staff levels in their company to changes, for example a fluctuation in workload. A wide variety of options are available for employers to hire people in a flexible manner provided that the rules are used properly.
Employee investigations
Employment tribunals expect employers to show that they have undertaken a fair and thorough investigation of complaints. This investigation can be time-consuming and complicated. However, if carried out early and correctly, an investigation should contain a problem and minimise distraction from the business.
Employee relations - working effectively with your union and employee representatives
A decline in industrial action and a trend within HR functions toward specialism, means that many senior managers lack experience of working with unions and employee representatives.
Employees and mental health - responsibility and adjustment (with OH Assist)
At any time, 1 in 5 of the working population will have a mental health disorder, most commonly anxiety or depression, and a further 1 in 6 will have symptoms of mental ill health, including substance dependence*. Most of these people will recover from their illness.
Essential employment law for HR professionals
HR professionals and managers need to understand the legal framework that underpins the employment relationship.
Essential immigration law for employers
Increasing compliance activity, the Government’s commitment to a net migration target and Brexit make it crucial that employers have a clear understanding of right to work issues. This course covers the UK immigration system, in the context of the employment life cycle, the areas of law that apply and competing risks and penalties.
European HR: cross-border employment law
Managing teams of people is challenging at the best of times. Working across European borders is even more difficult due to cultural and legal differences.
Eversheds Sutherland Banking Litigation Conference
Join an audience from global banks and financial institutions as we hear leading practitioners from the Bar and Eversheds Sutherland discuss and debate the fast-developing law and practice around English court orders. This engaging and interactive event will focus primarily on freezing orders but also cover other forms of interim relief commonly encountered by financial institutions.
Fairer pay? Gaps, ethnicity and ratios
So what are you going to do now? Your valued staff, customers, future talent and the press can see your gender pay gap data, alongside any explanation provided and action plans you have committed to. In less than 12 months’ time you must publish new data and progress will be expected. Pay gaps arise from the structure and composition of a workforce, often linked to custom and practice over decades.
Fire safety post Grenfell - managing the regulatory, legal and reputational issues
The recent high profile case of Grenfell Tower, as well as the earlier fire at Lakanal House, highlight that it is vital that fire safety risks are managed in residential and multi-occupancy buildings.
French employment law training - practical guidance and local insights
Based on the Napoleonic code and amended by statute ever since, French employment law is markedly different from the UK’s.
Gender identity and intersex
Aren’t we all a little non-binary, perhaps a bit ‘tom boy’ or with a ‘feminine side’? QUILTBAG is an acronym coined to be more inclusive towards minorities. It goes beyond LGBT but it still does not capture all the expanding identities. Arguably, the more inclusive your organisation becomes, the more likely it is that you will encounter a widening range of gender expression because your people will feel more able to be themselves.
German employment law training - practical guidance and local insights
Germany is a major trading partner for many countries throughout the world, not to mention the most important single market in the European Union.
Health, safety and environment update - Corporate silence?
A long chain of companies and decision makers were responsible for the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower, raising questions about oversight, supervision and responsibility. This may explain why some companies have declined to comment to the Inquiry. Legal privilege is a poorly understood tool which can help ensure that lessons are learned from accidents. It gives space for rational analysis but, when emotion supersedes reason, employers may become the target of media and public criticism.
Health and Safety Summer School - Reputation and responsibility
In 2009, six people died when a high-rise fire enveloped Lakanal House. Last year, the London Fire Brigade told the Court, “Bringing this prosecution against Southwark Council has been about ensuring that lessons are learned”. If only they had been. Health and safety professionals cannot forget the basics. They must still ensure managers know, understand and fulfil their responsibilities even when they may not want to listen, and that warnings from near misses and incidents are heeded.
HR compliance: purpose and risk
Modern HR thinking encourages HR professionals to take wider business roles and for business managers to enter the HR function. This course is aimed at managers who need a better understanding of practical HR compliance and HRs distinct position as trusted adviser
Immigration courses - Preparing for HEAT Inspections
UKVI’s Higher Education Assurance Team (HEAT) are currently undertaking a programme to audit all universities over the next 12-18 months. As UKVI can take action, up to and including revocation of a sponsor’s licence, it is extremely important that universities are fully prepared for a HEAT inspection. Eversheds Sutherland’s Education Immigration team regularly helps universities prepare for a HEAT inspection by rigorously testing their processes and procedures to determine their effectiveness
Inquests and court appearances - safety incident response
Court appearances are open to the public and the Press. Regulators, considering criminal charges, will be interested in inquest proceedings because evidence relevant to the cause of death may highlight corporate or individual failings. Those pursuing civil cases, including ambulance-chasing lawyers, may also attend and any admission of wrongdoing, or breach of duty, could be used as the foundation for a claim.
International assignments - contracts, visas and tax
Business migration and immigration continues at pace, despite political changes, although we are seeing more evidence of contingency planning. A unique set of employment, immigration and tax requirements must be considered when sending an individual employee to work abroad, or when bringing an employee into the UK. It is tempting to take a template approach to assignments but this can prove costly in the long run.
Introduction to Defined Benefit pensions: running a DB scheme
Pension scheme trustees are required to have a knowledge and understanding of: the law relating to pensions and trusts, the principles relating to scheme funding and investment.
Irish employment law training - practical guidance and local insights
The Irish and UK legal systems have many similarities. However, in an employment context those similarities can be deceptive.
Israeli employment law training - practical guidance and local insights
Israel has become a preferred regional base for many multinational companies. An increasing number of companies also have Israeli operations, either through regional expansion or through acquisition. Israeli employment law is unique and extremely dynamic, regulated by a variety of legal and contractual sources as well as an influential labour court system.
Italian employment law training - practical guidance and local insights
Italy probably has the most complex employment law in Europe. Did you know that in Italy: there are more than 400 national collective agreements in force; four different categories of employees, all subject to specific (and different) rules and regulations; and that unfair dismissal claims can, and do, result in compulsory reinstatement and awards of more than 40 months of salary?
Job stress - reduction and inspection
The Health and Safety Executive’s 2017 health priority plan has work-related stress as one of three occupational health priorities. The HSE aims to increase the number of employers proactively managing work stress through the Management Standards approach. HSE inspectors are more attentive now to work related ill-health and HR and safety professionals must work together to tackle the causes and consequences of stress in the workplace.
London Alumni Party
Our next Alumni social event is taking place at the Cinnamon Kitchen on Thursday 13 September. The evening will run from 6:30pm until 10pm and will be a great chance for you to catch up with friends and former colleagues in a relaxed setting. We will also have contemporary Indian food, drinks and entertainment for you to enjoy.
Managing difficult parent issues – a seminar for academies and colleges
It has been widely reported that parents and guardians have increased expectations regarding the education and support provided by academies and colleges and are becoming increasingly demanding and willing to challenge institutions, and individual members of staff, where their expectations have not been met.
Managing without Fear - Skills Masterclass
In this interactive skills session we will explore how to manage complex staff issues in a proactive and timely way whilst minimising any risks arising from taking this approach including:
Menopause at work
More women are in employment than ever before and they are working for longer. If your organisation wants to retain and attract female talent, and address any gender pay gap, it makes sense to consider the effects of this natural transition that will affect every woman, often in very different ways.
Minimum wages - Reputation and enforcement
Some employers, with employment models which include minimum wages, are struggling to comply with complex, often ambiguous, regulations. As the national living wage rises, higher-wage employers, including those in the public sector, are also coming into scope without realising how their normal payroll practices make them vulnerable to inadvertent, technical breaches. And because those who run their own business are not entitled to the minimum wage, some companies are using bogus arrangements.
Nordic (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) employment law training
Scandinavian countries have a shared history, a tradition of working together on legislative issues and a similar approach to welfare. Citizens of Nordic states can pass across each other’s borders and they understand each other’s language. But despite the similarity of legal structures and solutions, there are significant differences, to the extent that lawyers tend to specialise in one jurisdiction only.
Pensions conference - Pension saving - New Foundations?
BHS was one of the biggest pension funding failures since Maxwell...... and then came Carillion, which is four times larger. In each case, there were warning signs which were later laid bare in Parliament.
People issues in deals - Disruption then integration
Low interest and exchange rates, Brexit, America First, and even Northern Powerhouse initiatives are leading to a flurry of transactional activity. Although the people aspects of a corporate transaction rarely drive a deal, they often determine the success of it. Without careful internal messaging about the strategic benefits of a deal, and genuine storytelling about the vision for the future, an organisation may fail to gain the emotional buy-in necessary to realise the full value of the project.
Public Sector Pensions Conference
Our 2018 public sector pensions conferences will provide an insight into some of the key legal challenges impacting the LGPS, SHPS and other public sector pension schemes and their employers.
Safe recruitment - Inclusion with checks
When line managers compete for talent in a tightening labour market, they will try to speed up the hiring process. They are also selecting from a global and more diverse talent pool.
Spanish employment law training - practical guidance and local insights
Spanish and UK labour systems differ greatly. Spanish employment law is mainly based on the regulations contained in the Collective Bargaining Agreement in force in the market sector. Sometimes a specific CBA can be negotiated for one company with the trade unions and employee representatives.
Swiss employment law training - practical guidance and local insights
Switzerland is chosen by many multinational companies as a base for their European or global cross-border business activities, largely because of its advantageous investment climate.
Tricky issues facing schools and academies
Many schools and academies face complaints and challenges over the decisions that they take with regard to admissions and exclusions, particularly in relation to pupils with SEND. This session is designed as a recap of the obligations imposed on schools and academies in acting in accordance with the Department for Education’s School Admissions Code, School Admission Appeals Code and the Exclusion guidance, to ensure that fair and lawful admission and exclusion processes are undertaken.
TUPE: principles and practice
Lawyers find TUPE laws complex and difficult, so it is not surprising that HR professionals do too. We consider the perspective of the outgoing employer in a TUPE transfer, the incoming employer, affected employees and the role of HR throughout.
Webinar - Compliance with Tier 2 Sponsor Obligations and Update
Education providers who employ or wish to employ non-EEA staff need to sponsor them, most likely under the Tier 2 (General) route. Tier 2 has been subject to a number of recent changes and this trend is likely to continue, especially with the implications of Brexit and the changes that will happen to the immigration system as a result.
Webinar - Compliance with Tier 4 Sponsor Obligations and Update
Education providers who teach or wish to teach non-EEA students need to be Tier 4 sponsor licence holders. Tier 4 has been subject to a number of recent changes and this trend is likely to continue, especially with the implications of Brexit and the Government commissioning the Migration Advisory Committee to carry out a detailed study of the impact of international students (both EEA and non-EEA nationals) in the UK.
Webinar - Hot Topics for HR
Our education lawyers will explore the key topical employment issues for HR practitioners in higher and further education institutions, academies and schools.
Webinar - Understanding dispute resolution mechanisms. Litigation or alternative dispute resolution - what are the options what are the differences?
Alternative forms of dispute resolution are becoming ever more common. Encouraged by the courts and increasingly favoured by parties, options such as mediation, arbitration and adjudication are become more widely used. But what are the differences and what are the pros and cons?

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