| 9:00 |
Registration and coffee
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| 9:30 |
Chair's opening remarks
Peter Schofield, Director, Employment and Legal Affairs,
EEF
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| 9:40 |
Managing Restructures and Redundancies – The legal process
• What constitutes a ‘redundancy’?
• The legal processes you have to follow
• Individual consultation and compliance with the statutory dismissal procedure
• Information you have to provide
• Options to appeal
• Timescales and notice periods
• Statutory redundancy pay
• Recurring issues I have seen during a restructuring and redundancies
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| 10:25 |
Your legal questions answered
• Extended questions with the mornings speakers
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| 10:45 |
Informing and Consulting: A guide
• The duty to consult – your legal obligations
• What, when and for how long?
• Organising and running elections for representatives
• The effects of the (UK Coal Mining Limited V NUM) ruling
• Interaction with TUPE and the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations
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| 11:30 |
Tea and Coffee
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| 11:50 |
Case Study: Allaying fears and winning hearts and minds during a large scale merger and acquisition
• Continuing support to build the leading airline group
• Understanding our general framework and joint challenges
• Framing the HR agenda during the M&A processes
• Best practices for consolidating and retaining key staff
• Practical tips: What's in it for our staff?
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| 12:35 |
Lunch and networking
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| 13:35 |
Redundancy selection and redeployment strategies
• The use of competencies, interviews and performance management appraisals to aid selection
• Job reapplication and interviews – pitfalls to avoid
• Redeployment and retraining
• Selection and discrimination
• The law surrounding re-deployment
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| 14:20 |
Case Study: Voluntary and retirement redundancy programmes
• Delivering large scale change
• Working in partnership
• Sustaining organisational viability
Pete Lowe, Full Time Officer ,
The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust
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| 15:05 |
Tea and Coffee
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| 15:25 |
Tackling the 'Survivor Syndrome'
• Supporting the 'survivors'
• Rebuilding the psychological contract
• The role of leaders and line managers
• Re-framing the future - communicating 'the deal'
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| 16:10 |
Chair’s final remarks and close
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The organisers reserve the right to change the programme, speakers or venue should circumstances require.
