Unwrapping complex employee relations cases

Name: Unwrapping complex employee relations cases
Start: 2025-12-10T17:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-12-10T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Thrings Solicitors, The Paragon (5th floor),

Schedule

Wed Dec 10 2025 at 05:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Thrings Solicitors, The Paragon (5th floor), | Bristol, EN

Interactive workshop on handling complex employee relations: performance, absence, grievances, overlapping processes, risk, solutions.
About this Event

An interactive, case-study based workshop on navigating complex and multi-layered employee relations cases involving performance/conduct, long term absence and grievances; looking at strategies to manage overlapping processes; the impact on individuals involved; mitigating risk; and finding solutions. Prepare to participate and share your employee relations best practices.

Guest speakers:

Natalie Ward, Partner

Natalie advises across a wide variety of sectors, covering all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law, with a view to offering clients’ senior management and HR teams proactive advice and improved risk management for their businesses. Natalie advises extensively on management of capability and ill health issues, redundancy and collective consultations, acquisitions and disposals involving TUPE, disciplinary and grievance procedures, and discrimination. She regularly represents clients in complex employment tribunal litigation, often conducting her own advocacy.

Kerrie Hunt, Partner

Kerrie is Head of the Employment Team with extensive experience in advising on all aspects of her clients’ HR and People strategies. She works closely with the senior management and HR teams of regional, national and global clients and offers succinct, well-informed and tailored advice. Kerrie is also a keen advocate and litigator. People are at the heart of Kerrie’s practice and clients appreciate that Kerrie takes time to get to know their business and how they like to approach matters.

Important information: Arrival time is 17:00 for registration and refreshments, aiming for a 17:30 start.

Please note:

1. Reminder emails will be sent to you the day before, with a further reminder on the morning of the event.

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4. Please cancel your ticket so someone else can take your place if your plans change and you can no longer make it – there is usually a waitlist for our events.

5. This event may include an external speaker who has prepared their own presentation. Any views or opinions expressed by the speaker are their own and do not reflect those of the CIPD.

6. If you require any reasonable adjustments to enhance your experience, please get in contact with us by responding to this email and we will do our best to accommodate.