Employment Law 101 from mpm legal

We hope you enjoyed this session on mediation where Michael Farrier and  Adrienne Hardy   discussed how to appoint a mediator (and why that should be Mike!) 

Almost 80% of our attendees reported noticing an impact of increased costs on their workforce, but only 60% had implemented steps to address those impacts. Employment law partners Adrienne Hardy and Peter Beisty discussed what could be done, including:   *   Increasing hours and/or pay   *   Improving workplace flexibility   *   Assessing the uptake and engagement around employee benefits   *   Im...

Our next ‘Magic of Mediation’ webinar, the fourth in the current series, is entitled ‘Introducing A Workplace Mediation Scheme’ when Michael Farrier and Adrienne Hardy will discuss the benefits and why every business should be considering doing so.

Mediation At Work – how mediation can help your people - thanks for joining the third of our series of five! We hope you enjoyed this session on mediation where Michael Farrier and Adrienne Hardy we discussed which cases are appropriate for mediation and other practical issues around how mediation works. 

The Magic of Mediation – Measuring Your Conflict Costs - thanks for joining our second in our series of five! 

Join employment law partner Peter Beisty and trained mediator Michael Farrier in discussing an overview of workplace mediation and how it can benefit organisations looking to resolve tricky disputes whilst reducing litigation spend.

As business travel gets back to normality after lockdown, could inviting your overseas staff to visit the UK for work or meetings cause a huge business headache? Join us along with our guest speakers from RSM, Expatriate Tax Director Chris Gore and Employer Solutions Associate Director James Smith as we look at the employment, immigration and tax implications of business visits to the UK.

Undoubtedly there is still a disconnect between business leaders’ idea of “the new normal” and those of the employees.  Join us with a guest speaker, leadership coach Deese Pointon , on how to help achieve #courageousleadership This is a must see session for anyone interested in senior leadership coaching.

Love them or loathe them, non-compete clauses in employment contracts are a real thing in the UK and, contrary to popular belief, enforceable. But as we face a potential bonfire of EU derived laws and the spectre of general deregulation in the workplace, there are growing calls for non-competes to be trashed.

Our latest Future of Work webinar series looks at the forthcoming changes to redundancy protection for employees taking maternity leave and how that squares with business change processes you might be planning.

We look at the HR implications of using ChatGPT and artificial intelligence including:   *   What it means for the world of work?   *   Do we need to be afraid?   *   What are the HR opportunities?   *   What are the practical workplace impacts of AI going to be in 2023?

Many businesses now operate flexibly and allow employees to work from anywhere in the world for several weeks per year. But there may be hidden implications of being so generous with your workforce! Join Victoria and a special guest speaker, David Yewdall of Evelyn Partners , as they discuss employment, immigration and tax implications of a worldwide flexible working policy.

Adrienne and Peter discuss how to manage performance issues with both short service employees and those who work fully or partially remote. We look at: tweaking processes to maximise the success of a new hire remote worker how going back to basics can work wonders how not to get caught out by conflating presence with performance

Having difficulty on readjusting work expectations of employees who have undertaken long-term remote working during the pandemic? Join Peter and Adrienne for our next future of work session where they’ll be discussing the challenges and opportunities around changing long standing hybrid working patterns.

Did you know that the Right to Work Check process changed yet again in September? In this age of remote working, how do you do a remote check? What if somebody doesn’t have the right documents? Grab a coffee and join Victoria and Adrienne as they take you through it and answer any queries you might have.

Join employment law experts Adrienne Hardy and Peter Beisty for a discussion on legal developments in this area and how to make sure that remote working doesn’t mean employee burn out – essential viewing if any of your employees work some or all their time remotely. What we do. Employment law We can help you with all aspects of employment law: from policy-making and procedures; through statutory o...

This week will be our penultimate coffee break sized session of this series (sob) and we will be talking about dismissing employees fairly, including how you might introduce a severance discussion and other issues. Sarah and Adrienne will cover these issues and also share some thoughts on the very topical issues arising out of the recent action by P&O.

We hope you are enjoying our journey through the employee lifecycle. During this week’s free coffee break sized session we will take you on a flying tour of the family friendly rights you need to get to grips with and share our key watch outs to make sure you navigate the journey in the right way for those of your teams who need to rely on these rights, as well as avoiding some of the potential tr...

This week Peter and Sarah will be discussing redundancies – not a happy topic, but one that is important to understand to avoid some of the potential pitfalls. We’ll be talking about when collective redundancy applies and the additional considerations for your business, as well as how to ensure you keep your individual redundancy processes fair and free from discrimination.

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This week we’ll be looking at different types of discrimination. So if you want to understand what a PCP is or what is victimisation, then come and listen to Sarah and Adrienne chat through these difficult issues.

In this week’s Employment Law 101 session we’re discussing one of the trickier areas of HR - managing conflict at work and what to do about them! Join employment law experts Verity and Adrienne to hear their insights on how to overcome conflict at work, and their top tips and tricks for solving them.

Adrienne Hardy , Sarah Wilder and Verity Saxon , will be discussing menopause, pregnancy loss, fertility and periods in the workplace. This is a long-awaited webinar for us, and it’s time that we play our part in raising awareness of these issues and normalising them in the workplace.

Join employment law experts Sarah and Verity in Employment Law 101 which is all about performance management – our tricks and tips on how to effectively manage performance, and what not to do! 

Join employment law experts Adrienne and Verity in this Employment Law 101 which is all about probationary periods for new hires –  we discuss their effectiveness (or not) and how to get the best out of them when managing new hires! Given that it’s New Job January, now would be the key time to get your probationary periods in order.