CPN Event: Joint Webinar event with Leeds Law School regarding COVID-19 and Employment Law
On 23 March 2020, the Prime Minister announced that the UK was going into ‘lockdown’, that we should all stay at home and only go outside for exercise (once per day), or to get food or medicine. Only those with ‘key worker’ status or those unable to work from home, are permitted to leave the confines of their homes and travel to work. All non-essential businesses were closed and this has had a dramatic effect on employees around the country. Whilst some have been able to transition from the office to working from home, many have been ‘furloughed’ with others losing their jobs altogether. As the full effects of the lockdown playout and the long-term economic effects become clear, when the coronavirus-crisis is over we will certainly be in a very different world to the one we were living in.
Many of these changes have an employment law aspect to them and Leeds Law School, in conjunction with the Collaborative Professionals Network, is delighted that Jodie Hill, Managing Partner of Thrive Law, who is also one of our employment law lecturers, has agreed to host this webinar on coronavirus and its associated human resource and employment law issues.
The webinar will cover:
-Home working
-Furlough
-Health and safety
-Changes to sick pay
-Mental health at work
Speaker Biography
Jodie Hill is a cross-qualified solicitor who set up Thrive Law in order to ensure employees can thrive in the workplace. She is an advocate for mental health and has a campaign to ensure mental health risk assessments are mandatory. She also cares greatly about women empowerment and set up Thrive Women to share advice, experiences and empower women in business. Jodie continues to disrupt the employment law sector with her thought leadership and strives for social change.
Towards the end of the session Jodie will answer your questions about the law and HR practice in the light of COVID-19.