Flexible Staffing: Some Key Legal Issues
Presented by Dechert's Employment Law Practice
Date:
November 24, 2010
Time:
12:30 PM
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1:30 PM
Location: London
Flexibility has become increasingly prevalent in the workplace. Employees may seek flexibility to achieve work-life balance. Employers may use flexibility to promote efficiency both in the management of day-to-day work and in the structure of their workforce through an appropriate mix of employees, contractors and agency staff.
This seminar will examine the various challenges that workplace flexibility presents.
Seminar Topics
- Who is an employee? Recent developments in relation to the status of different types of worker
- An overview of the agency worker regulations coming into force in 2011
- Responding to and managing flexible and part-time working requests
- Phasing out of the default retirement age
- Varying contractual terms and conditions