Event details The Employment Rights Bill paves the way for significant reforms to UK employment law and is the biggest upgrade in employment rights for a generation. The Bill presents a formidable compliance challenge but is also an opportunity to modernise workforce practices.ABTA’s breakfast briefing will get you fully up to speed on the changes, when they come into force and which elements of the Bill particularly impact the travel industry. Ami Naru, Head of Employment at Travlaw will guide you through the key changes including day one unfair dismissal rights, reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment, holiday and sick pay and employment status.There will be an in-depth look at the actions that you need to take to ensure compliance including a focus on preventing sexual harassment and the steps that need to be taken to ensure this isn’t treated as a box ticking exercise. Sessions Employment Rights Bill updateunderstanding what is included in the Bill and when you need to complyPreventing sexual harassmentthe mandatory duty on all employers to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassmenthow employers can complywhat steps employers must take to prevent third party harassmentCommon trends for the travel industryholiday pay and commissionunderstanding employment status and issues with departing contractors Speakers Moderator: Ami Naru, Partner, Head of Employment, Travlaw Ami trained under Stephen Mason and qualified as a solicitor in 2000. Ami then focused on building an enviable employment practice serving the travel industry. She regularly worked with ABTA, AGTA and ABTOF amongst others. Since 2004 Ami has worked at a number of top, large national and international law firms, serving a wide variety of industries, acting for some of the largest employers in the private sector including well-known household names - Royal Mail, Tesco and Honda to name just a few. Ami returned to returned to her travel law roots in 2017 and now heads up the employment team at Travlaw. She exclusively serves the travel and leisure industry with its employment law needs.Ami is highly experienced in all aspects of employment law, both contentious and non–contentious. She has pretty much seen all there is when it comes to issues with employees. She regularly advises clients on matters such as board and senior level appointments and exits, business reorganisations and redundancies, TUPE, cross jurisdictional disputes and disciplinary and grievance procedures. Ami is your one stop shop for all aspects of employment law.Ami has also gained an enviable litigation record defending a wide variety of claims for clients in the Employment Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal and High Court. Ami is also an experienced advocate who adopts a “cradle to grave” approach in advising clients. She offers commercial yet pragmatic advice to clients to help them achieve their business objectives. “Ami Naru is someone you always want fighting your corner” – Legal 500.A confident yet approachable speaker, Ami regularly presents at seminars and training events for clients, in-house and events organised by industry bodies. She also organises mock employment tribunals for clients which are always popular – feel free to reach out to Ami if you like the sound of this service, which draws on years of experience. Sponsors Event partner
