Respect in the Workplace (Delivered by Knights)

This will very much be an interactive session, with the delegates being asked to step into the shoes of Employment Tribunal judges and vote on the outcomes of real-life discrimination and harassment cases.

The event will provide a practical and legal overview of respect in the workplace, covering the following:

• Why equality and diversity matters;
• How the law seeks to ensure equality and diversity;
• A closer look at harassment, including on the grounds of gender-reassignment;
• A brief look at the new legal duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace;
• What employers can do to prevent harassment in the workplace; and
• A summary of disability discrimination, with an emphasis on neurodiversity.

PLEASE NOTE: By booking on this event your name and contact information will be shared with and processed by Knights Solicitors in addition to Blackburn College as co-hosts of the event.

Caroline Rayner

Caroline is a Partner in the Employment team.

Caroline has extensive experience in advising employers on a wide range of issues in a commercial way. This includes representing clients in the Employment Tribunals and in Court proceedings, as well as day-to-day HR and employment advice covering areas such as managing absence, dealing with disciplinary matters and grievances, breakdown in working relationships, changing terms and conditions and redundancies.

Caroline is also experienced in advising on and drafting contracts, policies and procedures and providing corporate support in wider transactions such as share and asset sales. She is also experienced in delivering training and seminars to employers.

Clients include businesses of all sizes in sectors as diverse as hospitality, retail, manufacturing, professional services, charities and healthcare.

Tessa Rodgerson

Tessa is a Senior Associate in the Knights Employment team.

Working for a number of FTSE 100 and 250 companies with extensive workforces, in sectors as diverse as retail, transport, energy and financial services, Tessa provides her clients’ HR teams with strategic and operational advice on all aspects of employee management, including business restructures, change management, sickness absence, grievance and disciplinary procedures and managed exits.

A key focus of Tessa’s practice is complex and high-stakes discrimination and whistleblowing claims with significant reputational risk, in both the Employment Tribunals and appellate courts. Tessa also has extensive experience in conducting workplace investigations on behalf of clients.

Tessa understands the demands and complexities of being ‘client side’ and uses her experience gained during her secondments to clients in the aviation and rail industries to provide pragmatic, commercially focused advice.

Host or Publisher Janine Smith