08:30 Registration and coffee
09:00 First principles – the Principal Act
● Organisation of Working Time Act 1997
● The limitations of exemptions
● What does full compliance mean?
10:00 The thorny questions
● Travel time as working time
● On call arrangements
● The right to disconnect
10:45 Q & A
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Preparing for a Workplace Relations Inspection
● Powers of inspection
● Record keeping
● Requirements under relevant legislation
12:00 Banded hours and predicting working time Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2018
● Issuing predictions of working hours where the work is uncertain
● Managing competing requests for hours
12:45 Q & A
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Fact based scenario
● Practical exercise based on real life cases
● Hard cases make bad law
● Is the solution a “once size fits all” approach?
14:30 Market response to digitalisation – group session
● Increased demand for remote working from employees – and employers?
● Considerations other than working time – health and safety, GDPR
● Adopting a holistic approach
15:30 Q & A
16:00 Close