Overview
Course duration: 1 day.
This course is run in partnership with JSB.
Explore how HR can cost effectively and efficiently manage expatriate assignments.
Businesses continue to integrate in new international markets and require a mobile workforce to accommodate that integration. The movement of a talented workforce is essential to companies and corporations in today’s global economy where a global platform is a must in order to compete.
To cultivate and maintain global strength, businesses have a common goal: to develop managers and employees who can be effective in multiple cultures and in complex and rapidly changing environments. Global business profitability is dependent on the ability of companies to find, attract, and retain the right number and type of employees to fuel their growth on a global scale.
The Global Workforce Mobility conference will equip you with the necessary tools to develop and refine the appropriate strategies and practices for the entire assignment process.
Is it right for me?
Designed for HR Decision Makers, Heads of Recruitment and Resourcing, Finance Directors, Employee Relations Experts, In-House Legal Advisors, Lawyers, Training Managers, Heads of Diversity and Equality, Immigration Specialists, Company Secretaries, Trade Unions and Employers Associations.
What will I learn?
Conference highlights:
- Examine the global mobility landscape and how HR can support the ongoing management of international assignees
- Understand employment legislation governing the expat
- Hear how to transform your current talent mobility strategy in line with the generational shift
- Implement expatriate selection processes and career development strategies in order to secure the ‘right’ assignees
- Access the latest developments in expatriate tax and social security
- Ensure your reward and benefit policies are consistent, competitive and effective in the companies in which they operate
- Discover how to terminate international assignments and repatriate returnees whilst remaining legally compliant
What will it cover?
The global mobility landscape: a global assignee perspective
Annelyse Fournier, Head of Reward, Barclaycard
- How is the landscape for expatriate staff changing?
- What are the main cultural and workforce challenges facing an employee on international assignment?
- Practical advice for facilitating international careers and relocating the employee's family
Immigration law compliance
Jonathan Chaimovic, Partner, Clyde & Co
- Examining the practical aspects of immigration – visas, work permits and residency permit
- UK immigration legislation
- Managing immigration systems
Talent Mobility 2020: The next generation of international assignments
Carol Stubbings, Lead - International Mobility Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers & Ben Wilkins, Director - Human Resource Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Shifts in mobility patterns and strategy
- Three generations of workers
- Governments and business working together
- Your strategy and your future
- Transforming your talent and mobility culture
Expatriate selection processes and career development – recruitment, relocation, retention and deployment
Tax and social security
Clive Fathers, Partner, Employer Solutions, Grant Thornton and Alex Simpson, Senior Manager, Grant Thornton
- The practical implications of the new EU social security regulations
- Managing assignments to the UK in the 50% tax regime
- HMRC's current areas of focus
Consistent and competitive rewards and benefits
Kim Miller, International HR Director, Brown Forman Beverages Europe
- Ensuring your reward and benefit policies are consistent, competitive and effective in the countries in which they operate
- Benchmarking your remuneration and reward plans with your competitors
- Exchange rate volatility and the effect of the recession
- Calculating changes in cost of living
- Demonstrating the cost and value of your international assignment programme
Terminating international assignments, repatriation and legal compliance
Juliet Carp, Solicitor, Speechly Bircham
- New assignment, localisation or termination of the employment?
- Negotiating terms for the next assignment
- Negotiating severance terms
- Minimising disruption to the host business
- Post termination restrictive covenants and garden leave
- Managing cost and risk
- Practical steps to take now to make things easier next time