Forthcoming Event
CIPD: A review of family friendly rights & proposals for flexible parental leave will be part of the focus for the Autumn Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s (CIPD) Law on Tour, a series of highly informative, practical workshops exploring new & proposed employment law.
The Tour offers 12 separate workshops between 4 October & 21 October, run by leading employment law experts, Carolyn Carrington, John Fenton and Marco Marenda. They will offer guidance on the latest changes in employment law and significant future options, including a focus on:
* Employment tribunal cases – imposing penalties on employers who lose, extending the qualifying period to claim unfair dismissal and charging to make an employment tribunal claim
* Family friendly rights – including proposals for a new system of flexible parental leave
* Managing without a default retirement age
* Employment law review – including TUPE and redundancy legislation
STFC: Daresbury Laboratory's Talking Science lecture programme 2011 - 2012 will be webcast live & archived for later viewing. Admission to these events is by ticket only. Tickets are free but reservations must be made in advance from 4 weeks before the date of each lecture, by phone on 01925 603040 or by e-mail.
STFC hopes to support the delivery of these lectures with a webcast, further details will be made available on each event page close to the lecture date.
DCMS: An exhibition celebrating the role of crafts & manufacturing in our lives has opened to the public (runs until 2 January 2012). This is the second display from V&A/Crafts Council partnership. Power of Making, in the V&As Porter Gallery, is a selection of more than 100 objects, ranging from unusual high-heeled shoes to the handmade puppets from the 2009 film - Fantastic Mr Fox.
From car manufacturing to producing prosthetic eyes, the FREE exhibition will also showcase the process of making through documentary footage filmed at a range of studios and factories.
ACE: Blue Eyed Soul has announced details of their Dance Transformations Symposium. Dance Transformations is a 2 - year inclusive artist led development programme in the West Midlands for emerging dance artists to explore choreographic ideas.
Taking place on Wednesday 19 October 2011 the Symposium is an opportunity for dance artists, teachers, researchers, project managers and arts leaders to find out more about the unique approach & processes of the Dance Transformations programme and how this might inform professional practice.
Unite: The 6 consultative road shows into the Sayce reportthat threatens to put 2,800 disabled Remploy employees onto the dole is ‘shrouded in secrecy’, Unite, the largest union in the country, has warned. Unite and the GMB will be holding protests outside the meetings, organised by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), as the number of Remploy staff allowed to put their views as been limited to between 4 & 6 from each factory.
RoSPA: The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) has long campaigned on how good health & safety is good business and the 94-year-old safety charity is now taking its key principle from theory into practice at a special event.
Part of RoSPA’s ‘Meet the Experts’ series, the half-day seminar on communicating the business benefits of a sound health & safety culture and management system is scheduled for next month. The event takes place on 4 October 2011 at the National Metalforming Centre, West Bromwich.
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