Fully booked - TUPE Masterclass for Beginners: Answers to the questions you were afraid to ask

Speaker(s): James A. Cox is an employment partner in the London office of Gibson Dunn. He has extensive experience in contentious and non-contentious labor and employment matters, with an emphasis on cross-border employment issues, collective labor and industrial disputes, redundancies and workforce restructurings, ARD/TUPE, the employment aspects of public and private mergers and acquisitions and outsourcing arrangements, corporate governance matters, boardroom appointments and removals, contractor and directorship matters, employment issues facing private equity companies, whistle-blowing, equal pay and other discrimination claims, worker consultation, enforcing and resisting post-employment restrictive covenants, and protecting confidential information from misuse by current and former employees. James is recommended as one of the leading lawyers in London for Employment law in the 2007-2011 annual editions of Chambers and Partners UK and has been interviewed on matters relating to employment law on television and radio. He has also been quoted in The Times, The Sunday Times and Financial Times newspapers on employment law issues and lectures regularly on behalf of the Employment Lawyers Association and at commercial conferences.

Daniel E. Pollard, an employment lawyer in the London office of Gibson Dunn, specialises in all aspects of English law relating to Employment, Employee Incentives and Data Privacy. His practice includes contentious, non-contentious and general advisory work. He counsels clients on a broad range of employment- related issues including coordinating pan European advice projects, successfully defending numerous unfair dismissal cases in the employment tribunal and working as part of a team advising on high value discrimination claims. In addition, Daniel has extensive experience providing specialist employment advice on a range of corporate transactions, including TUPE related issues-. He also counsels multinational clients on issues relating to the use and transfer of employment and other personal data. Daniel has spoken at a number of employment law seminars, including for the CIPD and commercial conference providers.

Event details: Leading Employment Lawyers James Cox and Daniel Pollard from Gibson Dunn will present a “TUPE Masterclass for Beginners”. This is a “back to basics” session which will start at the beginning in order to give participants a clear basic understanding about when TUPE applies and the basic effects of TUPE applying. It is aimed at participants who either have no prior knowledge of TUPE or those who wish to consolidate their understanding of this technical area of law.

Whilst TUPE (the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006) is widely agreed to be one of the most difficult areas of employment law it is an essential area of expertise for HR practitioners whether in business, charities or the public sector. The session will provide a clear easy to understand explanation of the basis. As an aide memoire participants will receive a slide pack including diagrams, the key legal tests and names of the key cases.

Topics will include: 

• A world without TUPE
• When does TUPE apply: the relevant transfer
• Application to outsourcing and company sales
• Which employees transfer?
• Which liabilities transfer?
• Enhanced Dismissal Protection
• Objections and Constructive Dismissals
• Changing Terms and Conditions
• Employee Liability Information
• Information and Consultation

After the main presentation (lasting approx. 1 hour) there will be an opportunity for you to speak with the presenters: the ideal opportunity to ask those tricky TUPE questions.

(Note: The same speakers will be presenting a TUPE Update event on 6 December 2011 which is intended for those who are already familiar with the basics of TUPE).

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