Navigating the workplace in 2025
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Murrayfield Stadium is the venue for the next event in our Scots Law Conference Series, exclusively available to delegates in person on the day.
Covering topics from gender in the workplace, trade union law changes and tax for employment lawyers to disability discrimination, workplace investigations, the Employment Rights Bill and recent decisions on constructive and unfair dismissal, our new Employment Conference will be chaired by Tony Hadden of Brodies and will include presentations by Carolyn Miller from Lewis Silkin, David Morgan of Burness Paull, Robert Phillips from Addleshaw Goddard, Louise Usher of Brodies, Morag Hutchison from Shepherd & Wedderburn and David James of Themis Advocates.
What's being covered?
Gender in the workplace in 2025
This session will look at the implications for employment lawyers of the recent Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland. The session will include an overview of the decision. Tony will also discuss the up-to-date position in relation to the EHRC guidance and the ongoing litigation around it. In light of these issues he will then discuss how employment lawyers can best help employers navigate the issues in providing toilet facilities; data collection and positive action programmes.
Tony Hadden, Brodies
Workplace investigations
In this session, we will discuss best practice for conducting fair, thorough, and compliant workplace investigations, covering key stages from planning and interviewing to reporting and managing risk. We’ll provide some key takeaways and highlight some complex issues that arise when conducting workplace investigations.
Carolyn Miller, Lewis Silkin
Reform of trade union law and industrial relations
In this session we will: reflect on the current industrial relations climate; discuss how to deal with union collective bargaining, pay disputes and industrial action; legal reform under the Employment Rights Bill; explore trade union recognition and union access agreements; and consider employee voice and engagement in a time of change.
David Morgan, Burness Paull
The Employment Rights Bill and its implementation
Morag Hutchison, Shepherd and Wedderburn
Tax for employment lawyers
This talk explores key provisions of tax law that every employment lawyer needs to master, including the taxation of various payments by employers during and at the end of the employment relationship, together with an overview of national minimum wage enforcement regime (and changes with the Fair Work Agency on the horizon).
Robert Phillips, Addleshaw Goddard
Litigating in disability discrimination cases
Conducting disability discrimination claims brought by litigants in person will be discussed. Issues of capacity, litigation friends, reasonable adjustments, the use of intermediaries and ground rules hearings will also be considered along with the obligations owed by solicitors and the judiciary to those litigating with a disability.
Louise Usher, Brodies
The continuing relevance of constructive unfair dismissal
The basic principles of claims unfair constructive dismissal will be considered, reviewed in light of recent appellate authority. This session will discuss why constructive unfair dismissal claims continue to be relevant in modern employment law and provide some thoughts on potential future developments.
David James, Themis Advocates
