What will your workplace look like after COVID-19? How are these changes in working patterns going to impact the different departments within your businesses?
Given the increasing number of businesses switching to long-term remote work or looking to expand their talent pool beyond previous geographic constraints, this webinar looks at the practical implications of an increased remote and/or international workforce for businesses.
Topics of discussion include:
- Structuring business entities and international organizations for an international workforce
- Barriers to entry for those considering bringing on global talent
- Main considerations for hiring international employees.
- Red flags businesses and their lawyers should watch for when hiring global talent,
- Non-legal considerations for when hiring internationally.
- Considerations for permanent and short-term employee relocations
- Tax and payroll considerations, including for internationally mobile employees
Deel
helps remote teams streamline payroll and remain fully compliant through localised labour contracts when hiring contractors or full-time employees internationally. If you’d like to find out more, click here.
Speakers:
Colin Leckey, Partner, Lewis Silkin
Colin is a partner in Lewis Silkin’s employment team. He has a keen interest in cross-border work advising on international projects and, more recently, remote overseas working. Colin also advises on high-value litigation (both High Court and Tribunal), industrial relations and collective rights issues, particularly in the “gig economy” where he has advised on high profile employment status disputes, TUPE and transactions and equal pay. He was voted the Lexology Client Choice UK Employment Lawyer of the Year 2020 by in house counsel.
Vanessa Markham, Assistant General Counsel – Employment, Oracle
Vanessa is Assistant General Counsel, Employment, EMEA for Oracle Corporation and has been at Oracle for ten years this year. Based in the UK, Vanessa shares the responsibility with two EMEA colleagues for 27,000+ employees across 62 countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa. In this role, Vanessa advises local HR teams on all aspects of the employment relationship from recruitment to dismissal and everything in between. Vanessa qualified as a UK lawyer in 1998 and has worked in private practice as well other in house roles for ntl Limited (now Virgin Media) and Warner Bros Entertainment.
Azhar Khan, Senior Legal Counsel, Deel
Azhar is the Senior Legal Counsel at Deel. At Deel, he has lead the global expansion of the “Employer of Record” service to enable Deel’s clients to hire international employees. Prior to joining Deel, Azhar worked at IRIS Software, specialising in M&A and corporate development in the accountancy, payroll and education sectors.
Prior to moving in-house, Azhar worked as an M&A lawyer in private practice, having trained at Linklaters LLP
Theresa Strawson, Head of EMEA Legal, Juniper Networks
Theresa joined Juniper Networks in April 2007 in EMEA Legal, leading the team since 2019. She spent 6 years in EMEA Sales, leading the pre-Sales Go To Market Team for the EMEA Head of GTM (Sales). She is an experienced international lawyer and manager with broad global experience and has previously worked at Baker McKenzie, Orange, BT, SITA and Ciena.
As head of EMEA legal, There is responsible for delivering quality legal support to EMEA GTM, acting as an escalation point on GTM matters, being a business partner to the Head of Strategic Alliances as a Juniper Exec, identifying and managing risk in contracts and for leading negotiations with customers/partners.
Moderator:
Yun Kriegler, Internation Editor, The Lawyer
As the international editor of The Lawyer, Yun Kriegler is responsible for the editorial coverage of the global legal services sector in key regions such as Asia Pacific and Europe. She has a particular focus on the Greater China legal market and leads The Lawyers’ market intelligence reports on the largest independent and global law firms in Asia, including the China Top 30 and Asia Pacific 100.
