HR Directors Boardroom Forum

She’s worked across industries, knows what works and gets results by making the complex simple and getting people involved.

Topic: How to build an inclusive organisation

This seminar will cover:

• The difference between diversity, inclusion and belonging
• The cost of underrepresentation
• What organisations need to do
• What every individual can do

https://compellingculture.co.uk/

Naeema is a partner in Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP’s Human Resources Practice Group based in Manchester. Naeema advises on all aspects of employment law including executive terminations, whistleblowing, large scale redundancies, TUPE, contractual disputes and discrimination issues. Naeema regularly works in a cross border environment. She acts primarily on behalf of large scale employers who are household names. She has particular experience of dealing with clients in the consumer, nuclear and aerospace industries.

Naeema is an highly experienced Employment Tribunal litigator who has been appearing regularly in Tribunals throughout the UK since her qualification as a solicitor in 1995. She also advises clients on cases in the Employment Appeal Tribunal and in the Court of Appeal. In 2013, Naeema was appointed a fee paid Employment Tribunal Judge sitting in the Midlands (West) Region.

Naeema is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences. She contributes to a variety of publications and broadcast media. She is also featured in the Legal 500, Legal Experts and Chambers directories in which she is noted for her “articulate and professional manner” and “high level of competency in various areas, from tribunals, to pension issues, to discrimination” and as someone “you would want in your corner”.

Places are limited due to the nature of these events so book early.

Shirley is a Partner in Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP’s employment, labour and pensions practice group, Senior Office Partner for the Edinburgh and Newcastle Offices and is Head of the Newcastle Employment team. She specialises in all aspects of employment law with extensive Employment Tribunal experience since qualification in 1997. She acts for private and public sector employers handling a broad range of contentious and non-contentious matters. Like other members of the team, Shirley conducts her own advocacy in the Employment Tribunal. She is also a member of the Local Government, life sciences, education and consumer sector groups with particular emphasis on complex areas of employment law such as equal pay, gender pay, transfer of undertakings, whistleblowing and discrimination issues. Shirley leads on equal pay/gender pay for the employment, labour and pensions practice group.

Shirley’s recent experience includes the conduct of mass equal pay litigation for a major supermarket involving thousands of claims and multiple Claimants and representatives, the conduct of the high profile published BBC equal pay audit, a complex whistleblowing claim against a public sector client and named officers, and providing employment advice in relation to TUPE on outsourcing.

Due to current restrictions, our HR Director Boardroom events are now held online as webinars.

Places are limited due to the nature of these events so book early.