Speakers:
Kathryn Weaver, Head of Hong Kong Office and Head of Employment Team, Lewis Silkin
Catherine Leung, Employment Partner, Lewis Silkin
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, companies have seen a huge increase in requests from employees to work from home in another country for the short, medium and long term. This has been triggered by employees wanting to fly home to be close to family, wanting to work from holiday homes or getting stuck in a country due to flight restrictions and quarantine rules.
Although this may seem a sensible and/or kind solution in the circumstances, the creation of a temporary overseas workforce presents a list of potential pitfalls for companies. Before agreeing to such a request, companies should be mindful of the various legal implications of these “work from home, abroad” arrangements and weigh up the risk.
Kathryn Weaver and Catherine Leung, partners at Lewis Silkin, a leading Hong Kong employment law practice, will guide you through the following key considerations in this webinar:
- what employers need to know when evaluating requests to work from home abroad, including in relation to tax, local employment rights, immigration issues and data protection;
- what practical steps employers can implement to help minimise the risks of legal problems; and
- what to do if employers have already agreed to work from home abroad requests which may not be entirely legal.
This webinar will be of interest to those wanting to make a request to work from home abroad as well as to employers dealing with such requests. The topic is timely, especially given the large number of Hong Kong employees unable to return to Hong Kong from the UK at the moment.
Details on how to join will be sent via email by 5pm the day before the webinar.
About the speakers
Kathryn is Head of Lewis Silkin in Hong Kong and Head of the Employment team. She is dual-qualified in Hong Kong and England & Wales and has specialised in employment law for over 12 years. Kathryn acts for a mixture of FTSE 100 companies, household-name brands, gig economy clients and start-ups. She advises on the full range of employment issues in Hong Kong, including complicated terminations, negotiated separation agreements, restrictive covenant disputes and litigation, defending claims in the labour tribunal and courts, discrimination issues, redundancies and restructuring, and data privacy.
Across the Asia Pacific region, Kathryn undertakes a broad range of cross-jurisdictional work such as implementing partnership programmes, coordinating multi-country employment law projects, carrying out disciplinary and grievance investigations, and advising on senior ex-pat relocation packages. Kathryn is recognised as a Hong Kong employment law practitioner in Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal.
Catherine is an employment partner at Lewis Silkin Hong Kong and advises clients across the tech, financial services and luxury retail sectors. She is a qualified solicitor in both Hong Kong and England & Wales. Catherine works closely with legal, HR and senior executives and provides strategic advice on a full range of employment law issues including redundancies, bonus entitlement disputes, team moves and complex discrimination and sexual harassment cases. Catherine also advises clients in relation to investigations brought by the Labour Department and the Equal Opportunities Commission and has close knowledge of the local market. Catherine routinely works with Ius Laboris firms across APAC on regional employment law projects and has been recognised as a next generation partner in Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.
Pricing
- Member: HK$140
- Non-Member: HK$250
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