Join Loch Employment Law and SortmyPC to learn more about the upcoming GDPR changes, and what they mean for your business.

Chris Phillips, Partner at Loch Employment Law, will chair this breakfast seminar, which will cover the legal implications of GDPR, and how you IT and cybersecurity can be prepared.

Gavin Macgregor, Solicitor, will talk you through:

• The legal principles of the GDPR, and bases for processing data
• What is covered by ‘personal data’?
• Storing, Processing & Deleting Data – the GDPR changes
• Employee Consent & Rights and how Employers should respond to Subject Access Requests
• What happens when you suffer a data breach, including enforcement & consequences
• Tips for Compliance

Gordon Sayers, Managing Director, SortmyPC will discuss:

• The intersection of IT and GDPR
• Data Risk Assessment
• A practical approach to GDPR and IT
• How SortmyPC can help with compliance

The presentation will be followed by Q&A’s with our expert speakers, and networking opportunities over breakfast.

Learn more and book your place here; https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gdpr-update-seminar-tickets-41112678127

Are you ready for the upcoming changes to data protection that GDPR will bring next year? If not, don’t panic! Join us on Thursday 1st February when Loch Employment Law and SortmyPC present a GDPR Update Seminar.

WHEN: 1 February, 2018, 08:30 – 10.30
WHERE: Atria One, Brewin Dolphin, 144 Morrison Street, Edinburgh, EH3 8BR
Register online: https://gdprupdateseminar.eventbrite.co.uk

Chris Phillips, Partner at Loch Employment Law, will chair this breakfast seminar which will cover the legal implications and how your IT and security policies can be prepared.

Gavin Macgregor, Solicitor at Loch Employment Law will talk you through:
• The legal principles of the GDPR, and bases for processing data What is covered by ‘personal data’?
• Storing, Processing & Deleting Data – the GDPR changes
• Employee Consent & Rights and how Employers should respond to Subject Access Requests
• What happens when you suffer a data breach, including enforcement & consequences
• Tips for Compliance

Gordon Sayers, Managing Director, SortmyPC will discuss:
• The intersection of IT and GDPR
• Data Risk Assessment
• A practical approach to GDPR and IT
• How SortmyPC can help with compliance

The presentation will be followed by Q&A’s with the expert speakers and networking opportunities over breakfast.

To book a place visit https://gdprupdateseminar.eventbrite.co.uk/

About the speakers:

Chris Phillips is a partner with Loch Employment Law and accredited by The Law Society of Scotland as an employment law specialist. He has a wealth of experience in advising organisations on legal compliance issues.

Gavin Macgregor advises on a wide range of employment issues and personally conducts Employment Tribunal hearings in addition to representing clients during mediation proceedings.

Gordon Sayers is Managing Director of SortmyPC, one of Edinburgh’s leading Managed IT services providers.
For further information contact Gordon Sayers on 0131 477 2644.

Start your GDPR plan now… book your place today!

From 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation legislation will raise the privacy bar on personal data by requiring organisations to locate, understand its purpose and appropriately secure it, no matter where it lives or how it is shared… and the majority of organisations are still completely unaware of GDPR.

Data processors, companies using personal data on behalf of others, will have specific legal obligations to maintain records of personal data and processing activities. You’ll now be required to notify the ICO, within 72 hours of a data breach where it is likely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals.

Please come and join the team from Lugo for breakfast followed by a constructive half day seminar where you’ll hear from industry leaders and GDPR specialists. You’ll come away with the tools to enable your data protection compliance over the coming months.

Friday 1st December, The Village Hotel Edinburgh. £25. Full details here. 

Specialising in cyber security for SMEs, Lugo are a Scottish IT company founded in 2003 with offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Inverness. With roots in the accounting & finance field, Lugo’s monthly support contracts provide the reassurance of fixed price computer and communications support, providing business with state of the art tools to enable continual growth.

To confidently claim personal data is safe from threats at the perimeter, next generation firewall devices detect advanced, and never before seen, threats and also scan encrypted traffic which older firewalls lack the ability to do. SonicWall specialises in cyber-security products to stop ransomware, encrypted threats and phishing attacks, over not only wired but also wireless and mobile networks.

Multi award winning law firm Gilson Gray will guide you through the steps and measures you can put in place to secure your business without running the risk of being non-compliant.

As IASME (Information Assurance for SMEs) accredited to provide advanced levels of auditing through the Cyber Essentials Scheme, CyberAggress will provide practical steps to help your organisation protect itself against cyber attacks.

Agenda
8:30am Registration with breakfast rolls
9:15am Introduction
9:30am Gilson Gray – Changes in Data Protection Legislation
10:30am Coffee break
10:45am CyberAggress – Cyber Security Compliance
11:30am SonicWALL – Protecting your business data
12 noon Lugo – Enabling effective IT security
12.30pm Q&A
12:45pm Close

The cost to business of poor practice in this area goes above and beyond any fine the ICO can impose. Losing your customers’ trust could be terminal for your reputation and for your organisation.

Don’t wait or take a reactive approach to your GDPR preparations, not least because the ICO will have the power to fine companies up to twenty million Euros or four per cent of a company’s total annual worldwide turnover for the preceding year.

Book your team and your clients on now!

This autumn we will be offering a series of informative and entertaining seminars, which will be hosted at our offices in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

As part of our commitment to going above and beyond for our clients, we run BInformed, which brings together the wide-ranging expertise of our lawyers in one place and includes blogs, legal updates, e-bulletins, videos, training sessions and our popular free seminar programme.

The wide variety of hot topics that will be discussed include what organisations should be doing now to prepare for the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); IP protection; an update on the All Scotland Personal Injury Court; recent trends and issues in commercial law; managing corruption risks; Entrepreneur’s Relief; the impact of Brexit on environmental law; and claim defensibility training.

Please download our brochure and visit us at http://www.brodies.com/seminars-and-events to sign up today!

Please use our hashtag #BInformed to pose questions before each seminar, and to give us your thoughts and feedback.

If you have any questions or queries relating to our seminars, please do not hesitate to contact us at seminars@brodies.com

We look forward to seeing you!

Employment Law Seminar: Top tips on effective absence management and employment round-up

MMS Edinburgh, Quartermile One, 15 Lauriston Place
Edinburgh
EH3 9EP
5/10/2017 – 8:00AM to 10:00AM

Managing employee absence, whether short or longer term, is never far from the top of the HR manager’s remit.

Sickness has many guises and there is no one-size-fits-all approach for tackling workplace absences. Tactics for managing long-term absence often demands a different approach to that required for repeated short-term absences. October’s employment law breakfast seminar will tackle thorny issues which arise, including:

• Medical reports and what to do if an employee refuses consent
• Managing difficult or sensitive conversations with absent employees
• Keeping things moving when an employee calls in sick during a disciplinary process
• What to do when a return to work is not on the horizon – can you dismiss?

In addition, we will provide you with an update on the most important cases and legislative updates from recent months.

Agenda
0800 Registration & breakfast
0830 Seminar & discussion
0930 Discussion & refreshments
A further opportunity to chat with our speakers and network with other guests over refreshments
1000 Seminar close

Dates and locations
10 October – Glasgow
12 October – Aberdeen

Everyone that engages with a business forms an opinion based on their experience. Their opinion is the brand, and in this highly connected and communicative world, reputation is in their hands.

The University of Edinburgh Business School and Emperor are hosting an event on the 10th of October exploring how to craft, launch and sustain a successful employer brand.

With speakers from AG Barr, RBS and the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC), this event specifically examines the role of the employer brand in attracting and retaining the right candidates, making good hiring decisions and delivering a candidate experience to positively impact brand reputation. Leadership, HR and communications professionals, will benefit from key learnings taken from new market research, real world case studies, insightful presentations and the opportunity to engage with peers.

This is a complimentary event but places are limited so please register to secure a place at https://www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/event/developing-a-sustainable-employer-brand

Event details:
Tuesday 10 October 2017
17.30 – 20.15 (tea, coffee and networking from 17.00)
University of Edinburgh Business School
29 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh EH8 9JS

The School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh will host an interactive seminar on September 18, from 3pm – 5:30pm, titled “From Risk to Resilience in Climate Change: Creating Opportunities!”

Resilience is a buzz-word when it comes to preparing for climate change and its consequences.

While many resilience-related activities are policy-oriented, this highly interactive seminar is part of a range of Solution-Finding Sessions that all use the DIEM Focused Feedback Methodology: a ‘hands-on’ approach to collect practical recommendations.

After an introduction to set the stage, the DIEM’s Focused Feedback Methodology pulls you inside a gripping ‘What If…?’ flooding scenario and creates a sense of co-ownership among the teams who will then be tasked with formulating their own conclusions and corresponding recommendations on what to do (better) during four Critical Moments-in-Time in the scenario.

Within a month of the seminar, participants will also receive a report which will summarize the results of the feedback and include a trend-analysis and some benchmarking information. DIEM’s international jury will select best recommendations and team performance.

Presenter: Eelco H. Dykstra, M.D – – The Hague, Netherlands;
• 11th Brunel Internationale Lecturer
• Director of DIEM, Expert Network and Primary Research Group

Host: Professor Gordon Masterton OBE, Chair of Future Infrastructure

How to apply: By e-mail to: eelco.dykstra@diem.nu or diemthehague@gmail.com

Applications are welcome from both individual participants as well as from pre-established teams.

Cost: £45 for students, £75 for non-students.

Please note that your participation and payment also entitles you to apply for a one-year membership in the DIEM Network in the Student/Young Professional¹ or Subscriber² categories.

¹ Other than participating in the Online Knowledge Exchange (OKE) program (access to information and out-of-network contacts), DIEM operates a mentoring program in which students and young professionals can be matched with and connected to selected DIEM Partners and Experts
² Subscribers receive news, updates and can submit specific questions to our Partners and Experts. Groups of Subscribers may also be asked to function as a ‘review board’ to assess new approaches, ideas, or recommendations.

A message from Shenzhen Creative Investment Group;

To whom it may concern,

Shenzhen is one of the most economically competitive cities in China.

Since the launch of the Edinburgh Shenzhen Creative Exchange in 2015 with the City of Edinburgh Council and the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau of Shenzhen Municipal Government; annual high-level bilateral business and culture activities have been organised by the two cities.

This August, we are delighted to welcome another senior Shenzhen business and official delegation to Edinburgh.

We cordially invite you to the Smart Shenzhen – Innovation Promotion Seminar on Monday 7th August at the Glasshouse, Autograph Collection Hotels, 2 Greenside Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3AA.

Please visit the Event page for more information and registration.

During the event, Shenzhen officials will introduce business opportunities and incentives in the Bao’an district, where the Edinburgh-Shenzhen Creative Exchange is based.

You will also have the chance to learn more about the 3 winning Shenzhen companies of the 2nd ‘Create in Edinburgh’ competition and network with the Shenzhen delegation and other Scottish businesses.

Should you have any question, please contact Mr Jiangtao Ma (jiangtao.ma@scig.com.cn) of the Shenzhen Creative Investment Group.

Best regards,

Jiangtao Ma

Shenzhen Creative Investment Group

Time is running out to be ready for MiFID II and IDD by the end of the year.

Although project teams will have had both of these Directives on the agenda for some time, many businesses will still be facing a rush to compliance – not least because at the time of writing industry have not received the full suite of publications that implement the Directives.

This seminar builds on the themes of our previous seminar on distribution, but with specific reference to the financial services sector. As such, as well as covering MiFID II and IDD, the seminar will include discussion of other legislation and initiatives impacting distribution channels in this sector, including from a competition law angle.

MiFID II
A recent survey contains the striking statistic that 85% of asset managers will not be compliant with MiFID II rules until the fourth quarter of 2017 or even later.

At MMS we have over the past year or so been able to participate in MiFID II project discussions in various capacities and identify the real issues that those affected are grappling with. Such issues include:

• suitability and appropriateness;
• best execution;
• product governance; and
• inducements and research.

We hope to provide attendees with a focused and practical insight into these issues to provide a path forward to ensure that the early 2018 implementation date can be met.

IDD
The IDD (Insurance Distribution Directive) is designed to improve EU regulation on the sale of insurance products and member states including the UK are required to bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with the IDD by 23 February 2018. Discussion of the IDD will include requirements for insurance-based investment products, passporting rights, the registration process for intermediaries and organisational requirements for firms.

Other legislation and initiatives
This portion of the seminar will, at a minimum, cover competition and distribution channels and the FCA’s asset management survey. We are keeping a watching brief on other legislative developments that may impact on distribution channels and may comment on those developments in addition.

Location: MMS Edinburgh, Quartermile One, 15 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9EP
Date/Time: 31/08/2017 – 8:30AM to 10:30AM

Agenda
0830 Registration & breakfast
0900 Seminar & discussion
1000 Discussion & refreshments
A further opportunity to chat with our speakers and network with other guests over refreshments
1030 Seminar close

To find out more and book your place, click here.

Other Dates and Locations
London – 14 September

The UK and the EU have recognised the sensitivity of the position of individuals and their rights post the UK exiting the EU. It is also one of the most immediate issues facing employers.

Many organisations have indicated their need for access to talent and are concerned that employees may need to leave or they won’t be able to bring in the talent in the future. The UK Conservatives still talk in terms of net migration in the tens of thousands. Irrespective of the outcome of UK–EU negotiations, the exit bill and the UK’s future relationship with the EU, employees and employers will be affected by the outcome as well as by any immigration regime put in place.

Recognising the need to stay informed, MMS invite you to join us at these seminars hosted by expert speakers from the Employment, Benefits & Immigration teams, who will take a closer look at the following issues.

-Where is employment law likely to diverge from the current European path?
-What comes after free movement?
-What can employers do now to prepare for a post-Brexit world?

This seminar would be of benefit to HR professionals, in house lawyers, senior management and anyone who may be impacted by these changes.

Agenda
1730 Arrival
1800 Seminar
1845 Q&A
1900 Networking drinks and further questions
1930 Close

Seminar Dates and Locations
13 June – Glasgow
14 June – Edinburgh

MMS Edinburgh, Quartermile One, 15 Lauriston Place
Edinburgh
EH3 9EP
14/06/2017 – 5:30PM to 7:30PM

21 June – Aberdeen