# Dismissal: Shaping New Developments into Solution-Focused Answers for Employers

> Solution-Focused, Court-Proven, Answers to 9 Thorny Questions Facing Employers: Directly from 7 Top-Rated Lawyers

- Format: In-person
- Date: Tuesday, 21 February 2023, 10:00AM to 4:00PM (registration from 9:30AM)
- Venue: The Caledonian Club, 9 Halkin Street, London, SW1X 7DR
- Rates: Live Attendance £249.00 + VAT per person
- Status: This conference has taken place
- Book: https://whitepaper.co.uk/conferences/hrlondon23

## Programme

- 09:30 Registration and coffee
- 10:00 Chair's Introduction: Dismissal: Shaping new developments into solution-focused answers for employers
  - Answered by Catherine Taylor, CMS
- 10:10 Inappropriate behaviour: How do you approach confidentiality and transparency in inappropriate behaviour grievances, including sharing accusations and statements?
  - Answered by David Whincup, Squire Patton Boggs
- 10:45 Capability: When and how do you start a capability process when all reasonable adjustments have been exhausted, but absence continues, or contractual obligations are only partially fulfilled?
  - Answered by Paul Jennings, Bates Wells
- 11:20 Morning coffee
- 11:35 SOSR: How do you safely use SOSR as the reason for dismissal when a working relationship has broken down, even if the employee may not recognise this?
  - Answered by Gareth Brahams, Brahams Dutt Badrick French
- 12:10 Frequent absence: How do you amend trigger points and progress warnings for frequent short-term absences due to an underlying mental health condition?
  - Answered by Nicola Rabson, Linklaters
- 12:45 Overrun
- 13:00 Lunch
- 13:45 Gross misconduct: To what extent should a decision manager consider an employee's mental health when hearing their discipline case concerning a gross misconduct matter?
  - Answered by Paul Fontes, Eversheds Sutherland
- 14:20 Disciplinary hearings: How can you proceed with a disciplinary hearing when the employee: 1) Is absent due to prolonged ill health? 2) Refuses to attend? 3) Counters with a series of grievances?
  - Answered by Jennifer Millins, Mishcon de Reya
- 14:55 Investigations: How do you establish "reasonable" grounds from statements where one employee has accused the other of misconduct - one word against another?
  - Answered by Emma Burrows, Trowers
- 15:30 Over-run
- 16:00 Close of conference

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