Labour law: topical issues and best practices of the VI Professional Conference to be held in Moscow, at the Holiday Inn Suschevski, on November 28-29, 2012

Main themes:

• Changes to the employment legislation and the practice of application of law in today’s conditions
• Attestation of the work conditions (workplaces) and the employer’s responsibility
• Resolving corporate conflicts during global changes in the company
• Court disputes and extrajudicial conflict settlement
• Peculiarities of regulation of the employees’ work in harmful work conditions and in separate subdivisions
• New rules for medical examinations. Actions of the employer if an employee fails to pass a medical examination
• Dismissal of an employee on the initiative of the employer
• The issues of illegal use of confidential information, of personal data protection

The program of the Conference is made with the account of requests and suggestions from the participants of the pas events and leading experts.

Advocate Anna Kotova-Smolenskaya, Associated Partner of the Law Firm "YUST", represents the Firm and will moderate the session “Restructuring of labour relations: practical aspects” (first day of the event, November 28, 2012).

Issues to be discussed during the session:

• Downsizing the employees of the organization
• Resolving corporate conflicts during global changes in the company. Main mistakes and wrong beliefs of the employers
• Peculiarities of regulation of the employees’ work in separate subdivisions, formalizing the employees in the regions without creation of stationary workplaces (remote work). Practical work results of control over the performance of travelling employees
• Additional risks of large companies with developed networks of regional repoffices and subsidiaries when terminating employment contracts on the basis of certain clauses of Article 81 of the TCRF
• Tendencies of the employment disputes court practice
• Topical issues of cooperation with trade unions

Session activities: 15:40 – 18:00.

The program of the session and the list of the participants are available here.

Location of the Conference: Holiday In Suschevski Hotel, Moscow, Suschevsky Val St., 74 (3 minutes away from Rizhskaya subway station).

See the organizers’ website for more details: http://www.emplaw.ru.