PROGRAMME

Contracts

• employment status
• fixed-term regulations and successive contracts
• working time – changes to holiday pay
• immigration, asylum and nationality
• recent case law

Discrimination

• Equality Act 2006
• bullying and harassment
• The Disability Discrimination Act 2005 and recent case law
• sex and race discrimination – the recent cases
• religion or belief, sexual orientation – recent cases
• age discrimination
• equal pay – recent cases
• Single Equality Act

Work and Families Act 2006

• extended maternity and adoption pay
• extended paternity leave
• new right to request flexible working for carers

Transfer of undertakings

• the 2006 regulations a year on
• pension issues
• recent case law
  

Discipline and dismissal

• operating the statutory dispute resolution procedures – guidance from the tribunals and courts
• when is a grievance a grievance?
• other recent case law
• the Gibbons Review and government consultation

‘Stress’

• latest cases
  

Smoking in the workplace

 
What next? Looking ahead to 2008