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‘Under Pressure: Employees, employers, their rights and the maintenance of services’

November 28 2012

Employment law and rights in the context of change...

With austerity and a prolonged economic adjustment in prospect budgets will come under increasing pressure. This breakfast briefing reviewed the current state of employment law and, with respect to recent and future developments, current trends. It also considered the management of employment rights at times of organizational change and transformation.

Themes...

Themes addressed included:

  • The changing face of employment law - past and pending reforms in Great Britain
  • With employment law now devolved, Great Britain and Northern Ireland at a crossroads
  • Employment rights: statutory provisions and industrial tribunal jurisdictions
  • Pressure: fiscal and budgetary pressures and employment law - collective redundancies, TUPE etc.

Leading the discussion...

Were Julie Anne Clarke, a partner in the Employment Law Unit of Elliott Duffy Garrett, the Belfast commercial law firm; and Mark McAllister, a senior employment relations officer with the Labour Relations Agency and a part-time law lecturer.

Copies of presentation material used by Mark and Julie Anne are available to Forum members on request.

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