Key Developments in UK and US Employment Law

Arnold & Porter and North Eastern Human Resources Association are pleased to invite you to this complimentary half-day seminar designed for HR professionals, in-house counsel and senior executives with labor and employment responsibilities.

Topics

Time to Update Your UK Employment Contracts

• New terms you are required to mention
• Protecting your company's confidential information
• What "garden leave" actually means and how to draft a valid garden leave clause
• Monitoring employee communications: what is OK to say given GDPR
• The ongoing vacation nightmare: new rules and more liabilities
• Process for changing contracts of employment

Demystifying Employee Generated IP: The UK Perspective

• What IP rights do employees generate?
• Protecting the employer: what needs to be stated in the UK employment contract?
• What does all the legalese actually mean?
• The difference between creation/inventorship and ownership
• "Assigning IP rights": when is that necessary?
• Do we have to pay employees if we want ownership of their inventions and copyright works?
• Best practices

Compensation and Benefits Issues in Corporate Transactions: The US perspective

• Compensation and benefits aspects of a deal
• Labor & employment: unions, WARN Act, wage and hour compliance, employment agreements, & non-competes
• Executive compensation: equity incentives, change in control provisions, 280G & 409A
• Employee benefits: pensions, retiree medical, severance

Processing HR Data in the UK: What US HR Professionals and In-House Legal Counsel Now Need to Know

• How has Brexit changed things?
• Transferring employee personal information to our US parent: major new developments
• When and how can we undertake criminal background checks?
• What documentation should we have in place?
• Can we rely on consents given by employees?