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Staying on top of all the legal issues for your day-to-day activities and corporate life events in many jurisdictions is a challenge, especially in this current environment. That's why Deloitte Legal launched Dbriefs, live webcasts, to help you gain insights on key legal trends and critical issues affecting your global business operations.

Upcoming webcast

Employment Law
Powers of the trade unions and staff representatives in the company: A comparative approach of the constraints of the employer in different jurisdictions

11 December, 12:00 – 1:00 PM CET (GMT +1)

Host: Nathalie Pequiman
Presenters: Fernando Bazan, Dr. Martin Doepner, Laura Nazarian de Morais, and Jolin Song

Freedom of union association is warranted in most jurisdictions. Within the company, this freedom may conflict with the freedom of entreprise. This Dbriefs webcast aims at presenting and understanding the extent of the trade unions/staff representatives' powers in the company and at comparing the constraints borne by the employer in different jurisdictions, including Brazil, China, France, Germany, and Spain. It would address the following key points:

  • Do the trade unions/staff representatives have a right to be informed and/or consulted on all or part of the employer's decisions?
  • Do they have a right to a co-determination of the employer's strategy?
  • Are they entitled to negotiate with the employer to create rules applicable in the company?
  • What are their means to operate at the workplace, e.g., via email, website, specific premises, etc.?
  • What is the limit to their freedom of speech?
  • Do they have legal capacity to bring a claim before the court/competent authorities in their name or in the name of the individual employees or together with the individual employees?
  • Is there any mandatory requirement for the employer to allocate the funds for the trade union activities?

Our Deloitte Legal specialists will enable the auditors to have a better idea of how to address and handle trade unions/staff representatives' claims at the workplace in various jurisdictions.

Archived webcasts

Employment Law
Harassment in the workplace: How to prevent and respond?

18 June 2019
Host: Florence Theodose
Presenter: Stefano Miniati, Charlotte Sander, and Jolin Song

How should a company react, from a practical perspective, in case psychological and/or sexual harassment may be disclosed or witnessed by its employees? What is the appropriate conduct to adopt for dealing with these situations in practice? Harassment may be defined as the repetition of acts with the intent or effect of deteriorating working conditions in a manner likely to affect the employee's rights and dignity, physical and mental health, or to jeopardize their professional future. Employers who failed to comply with its obligations in this respect could expose to being sentenced to pay substantial amounts in damages to any affected employees, as well to being convicted for criminal offences. In order to avoid such situations, the employer must take preventive actions and react quickly in the event of suspected harassment at work. This webcast will provide a comparative study among China, France, Germany, and Italy. In particular, we'll discuss:

  • How to identify a situation of moral/sexual harassment?
  • What are the existing reporting channels for denouncing moral/sexual harassment?
  • What should be done during the inquiring phase (hearing of the victim, suspect, colleagues, etc.)?
  • What can be done during the disciplinary phase (content of the Company Internal Rules, sanction of the harasser, sanction of the employee denouncing false charges, etc.)?
  • Prevention of moral and sexual harassment.

Hear from Deloitte's labor team of specialists to get a deeper understanding of the best way to identify and anticipate potential situations of harassment at work and how to react in these situations.

Employment Law
Data protection: HR focus on EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) implementation

14 June 2019
Host: Nicolaas Vermandel
Presenter: Ivana Azzollini, Martin Doepner, Caron Gosling, and Julien Hick

After one year from the effective entry into force of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018, companies are facing the challenges of the implementation of such provisions in the HR environment. In this area, the GDPR leaves (under the perspective of common guidelines and goals) a wide space for local legislation to arrange for compliance, taking into account also labour law constraints. The topic requires a specific approach, both global and local at the same time, which may differ from the general GDPR implementation and may, in this respect have a huge impact on multinational groups processes and procedures. Leveraging on the broad experience accrued in this specific area, we'll discuss a comparative analysis among different countries (Belgium, Germany, Italy, and UK) on the main common issues to be considered:

  • Main labour law issues affecting GDPR implementation in HR.
  • Sensitive processes and data flows.
  • Critical areas and triggers.
  • Types of agreements to be entered into with HR-related service providers.

Join us to gain insights on how to manage and mitigate the risks and challenges in the GDPR implementation for your organisation.

Legal Management Consulting
Legal Risk Management: How does your organisation compare with the market? What does the future hold?

29 May 2019
Host: Karina Mowbray
Presenter: Tom Brunt, Emily Cromwell, and Stephen Lucas

Managing legal risk has never been more important for global organisations. As the Legal function transforms, so too does the way in which it contributes to an organisation's risk management approach, playing a greater role than ever before. However what exactly constitutes legal risk, how should it be managed, and by whom? Towards the end of 2018, we surveyed general counsel and senior in-house lawyers to benchmark approaches to legal risk management. We then overlaid Deloitte Legal's experience to form a view about what the future holds. During this webcast, we'll discuss:

  • An overview of legal risk management and why it matters
  • The key findings from our global cross-industry survey
  • Our views on the future, including how technology will improve the management of legal risk

We invite you to join the conversation and learn how your organization can manage legal risk more effectively.

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A standard Certificate of Attendance will be made available to participants of the Dbriefs Legal webcast programme. Please be advised that participants will consult their CLE / CPD / CPE accrediting agency to determine whether self-study credit can be earned for viewing our webcast programme.

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