Employing and Vetting Non-UK
Nationals 2010
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Symposium Events’ 10th annual Employing and Vetting Non-UK Nationals conference has been specifically designed as a comprehensive guide to all your immigration concerns. We will present you with case studies and workshops with industry experts, as well as up to date legal advice and an Interactive Q&A Session to answer all your Points Based System queries. Added to this, hear insights into the Conservative Party’s future plans from Shadow Minister for Immigration Damian Green. This is a must attend event for all professionals involved in recruiting, vetting and managing foreign nationals.
The introduction of the Points Based System saw the most significant shake up to immigration law for almost 50 years and leading organisations are now really getting to grips with their responsibilities, just in time for a potential surge in recruitment as the economy picks up. Now is the time to assess your immigration, recruitment and vetting procedures and prepare for a successful 2010.
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09:00 – 09:30 Coffee and Registration
09:30 – 09:40 Introduction and Opening Address by Conference Chair
Tom Hadley, Director of External Relations, Recruitment and Employment Confederation
09:40 – 10:05 The Current Climate and Future of Immigration
Damian Green, Shadow Minister for Immigration, Conservative Party
10:05 – 10:30 Looking at Immigration from an Employers Point of View
Gerwyn Davies, Public Policy Adviser, CIPD
10:30 – 10:55 ID Verification in a Few Steps
Daniel Suess, International Account Manager, Keesing Reference Systems
10:55 – 11:05 Questions and Discussions with Speakers
11:05 – 11:30 Coffee, Exhibition and Networking
11:30 – 12:00 Employment Law Issues and Migrant Workers
Michael Bradshaw, Partner, Charles Russell LLP
12:00 – 12:25 Case Study: Managing your Global Workforce
Kim Miller, HR Director – International, Brown Forman Beverages
12:25 – 12:50 Effective Vetting and Screening
Kenneth Hanslip, Head of Professional Standards, NSL Services
12:50 – 13:00 Questions and Discussion with Speakers
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch, Exhibition and Networking
STREAM 1
14:00 – 14:45 Interactive Session
This workshop will provide you with the chance to talk through the practical problems and issues faced when navigating immigration rules in the workplace.
Jennifer Harvey, Partner, Darbys Solicitors LLP
14:45 – 15:30 Interactive Session
This workshop will provide you with the tools to ensure your organization is protected by fraud and illegal workers.
Ian Westwood, Director, The Westwood Organisation
STREAM 2
14:00 – 14:45 Interactive Session
This workshop will provide you with the tools to ensure your organization is protected by fraud and illegal workers.
Ian Westwood, Director, The Westwood Organisation
14:45 – 15:30 Interactive Session
This workshop will provide you with the chance to talk through the practical problems and issues faced when navigating immigration rules in the workplace.
Jennifer Harvey, Partner, Darbys Solicitors LLP
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee, Exhibition and Networking
15:45 – 16:10 The Importance of Migrant Workers in UK Businesses<
Guy Bailey, Senior Policy Adviser – Pensions and Employment, CBI
16:10 – 16:35 Overcoming the Barriers of the Points Based System
Jane Harris, Head of Global Mobility, EMEA, Thomson Reuters
16:35 – 16:45 Questions and Discussions with Speakers
16:45 – 16:50 Chair’s Closing Comments
16:50 Close of Conference
Tom Hadley’s role focuses on lobbying key Government and EU officials on a range of employment and labour market issues. The work also involves highlighting REC initiatives to promote industry standards, including enforcement of a Code of Good Recruitment Practice, audit schemes and the recently launched Diversity Pledge. Previously, roles have included working at the CBI, a traineeship within the European Commission and work within the in-house legal department of the French multi-national Vivendi.
Damian Green MP is the Shadow Minister for Immigration, a portfolio he has held since December 2005. He has responsibility for Conservative Party policy on borders and immigration, encompassing the National Identity Scheme and the e-borders programme. These contentious areas are a basis for his interest in the Government’s use of technology to create a ‘database state’.
Damian was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and was President of the Oxford Union in 1977. He is a former financial journalist and worked in the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit from 1992-94.
Gerwyn Davies joined the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in January 2000. He previously worked as a researcher for the Wales European Centre, Brussels and as a consultant for Central Lobby Consultants, Westminster. In addition to the responsibility for coordinating the Institute’s public policy activities, Gerwyn is jointly responsible for producing the CIPD/KPMG’s influential quarterly Labour Market Outlook. Gerwyn has also jointly managed the CIPD/People Management’s HR goes green campaign.
Kim Miller is currently International HR Director for Brown-Forman Beverages (Europe) Ltd, Kim manages the global mobility of local employees and expatriates and specialises in global HR/expatriation and European employment law. Degree qualified and FCIPD, Kim has gained 25 years experience in global human resources, having worked extensively across Europe, Middle East, Far East and USA.
Guy Bailey has worked as a Senior Policy Adviser in the CBI’s Employment Policy Directorate for two and a half years, leading the organisation’s work on labour market flexibility, migration and vulnerable working. Prior to joining the CBI, he worked on a graduate management scheme in industry.
Michael Bradshaw specialises in all aspects of employment law with national and international businesses. He has considerable experience in contentious matters and has acted in leading reported cases on TUPE and agency workers. Michael is head of Charles Russell’s business and executive immigration team and regularly advises on the related employment aspects of international assignments.
Kenneth Hanslip is the Head of Professional Standards for NSL Services Ltd. Ken has extensive fraud investigation experience having worked both in the London Metropolitan Police and the Benefit Fraud Investigation Service. Ken is also a member of the Home Office’s Illegal Working Stakeholder Group.
Jennifer Harvey is a partner at Darbys Solicitors in Oxford. Described a ‘hugely experienced’ by Chambers & Partners Directory, she has specialised in all aspects of personal and business immigration advice for over fifteen years. She has a wealth of experience in advising employers on the developments in immigration law including the complexities of the points based system and the obligations placed on employers by the Immigration Asylum and Nationality Act of 2006.
Ian Westwood is and Immigration Consultant with 18 years of experience in the Immigration field. He has worked for the UK Immigration Service, the forerunner to UKBA, and has several years of private practice experience. Ian is a frequent conference speaker on the subject of identity fraud, document verification and Immigration compliance. In 2003 Ian set up The Westwood Organisation, a niche Immigration consultancy which specialises in helping employers comply with ever more complex Immigration regulations through training, information provision and consultancy services. The company assists individuals with immigration applications and represents at the AIT. They are registered, at the highest level, to give advice by the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner.
Jane Harris is currently Head of Global Mobility EMEA with Thomson Reuters. Prior to this role, Jane was Director, Employee Taxation and Expatriate Services at InterContinental Hotels Group where she worked for just over five years. I was responsible for ensuring the Points Based System was implemented quickly and efficiently at IHG. Since joining Thomson Reuters I have taken over the role of Authorising Officer to cover the merged businesses.
Keesing Reference Systems is a specialist provider of verification tools and solutions that allow international organisations to authenticate ID documents and banknotes. As a provider of quality information and document control solutions, it has, over the years, accumulated unparalleled expertise and experience. More than 6,000 companies from over 120 countries successfully leverage Keesing´s expertise. Keesing Journal of Documents & Identity offers a clear and concise overview of the latest developments in the security document industry. Already 8,000 professionals benefit from this specialist journal with its unique mix of up-to-date news and in-depth features journal. Keesing Journal of Documents & Identity is a bi-monthly magazine with 3 regular issues and 3 specials per year.
If your organisation would be interested in promoting itself through the wide variety of exhibitions, sponsorship and marketing opportunities available at this event, please visit our sponsorship mini-site here or email or call William Porter at wporter@symposium-events.co.uk or 020 7231 5100.
CCT Venues – Canary Wharf,
Isis Building, Thames Quay,
193 Marsh Wall,
London,
E14 9SG
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Tuesday 9th March 2010, CCT Venues – Canary Wharf, London
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