Negotiating Exits and Settlement Agreements: 10 Top Tips

One of your senior employees is not performing. Your MD wants to “do a deal” to remove her from the business. How do you approach this? Join us at our October Employment Workshop when we will explore the key legal, practical, regulatory and tactical issues for employers to consider when negotiating the exit of a senior employee from the business.          

We will consider:

• The strategic and practical points to consider when managing exits from the business. 
• What you should (and should not!) be saying when seeking to do a severance deal, especially in situations involving actual or potential allegations of discrimination or whistleblowing.
• Starting the conversation – the timing and content of “pre-termination negotiations” and “without prejudice” discussions and how to move safely both towards them and away, if appropriate.
• Potential pitfalls and how to avoid them. 
• Forthcoming changes to the tax treatment of termination payments.  
• What should an effective settlement agreement contain?  

The aim of our workshop programme this year is to enable you to deal more effectively and economically with typical employment law issues.  

As always, you will have the opportunity to ask questions of our lawyers as well as to share experiences with other delegates.

This workshop is suitable for managers as well as legal and HR professionals.

Registration is at 8:45 a.m. for a 9 a.m. start. The workshop will last 1.5 hours.

Cost - £40 plus VAT.