After years of historically high levels of employment, the pandemic has suddenly made avoiding large scale unemployment a central aim of governments around the world. Entrepreneurs will be key to the economic recovery and governments will be critical in supporting their efforts.
At this event you will hear from and share your experiences with the Shadow Minister for Employment and Chair of the APPG for Entrepreneurship. It will also be an opportunity to find out more about the latest legislation and schemes designed to support employment, and consider reforms that might be necessary in light of Covid-19.
Seema Malhotra is the Labour MP for Feltham and Heston, and has been an MP continuously since 15 December 2011. She is Shadow Minister for Employment, and was previously Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, among other roles.
Seema is a former management consultant who worked for Accenture and PwC. She is the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Entrepreneurship.
Sharon Tan is a Partner in the Employment department with significant experience advising on all aspects of employment law.
Sharon handles matters ranging from executive contract negotiations/exit arrangements, business restructurings and redundancies to Remuneration Code issues and the operation of forfeiture provisions (malus and claw-back). She has particular expertise in complex, high-value Employment Tribunal disputes, and High Court litigation, including team moves and the enforcement of restrictive covenants, as well as bonus, discrimination and whistleblowing claims.
Sharon is also one of only two employment lawyers to be named in The Lawyer Hot 100 2016 and has been recognised by Who's Who Legal: Labour, Employment & Benefits every year since 2016 as a leading practitioner in the employment law field. Her data privacy practice has won her recognition as a key practitioner in Legal 500.
Julia Rouse is Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Centre for Decent Work and Productivity at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has spent 20 years researching how social processes and policy create different chances to start and grow a business. She is also an expert in people management in small firms and leads a new £1m investment by the Economic and Social Research Council, The Good Employment Learning Lab.
As soon as the Covid19 crisis broke, Julia joined forces with the Enterprise Research Centre to critique policy for the self-employed and small businesses and to use evidence to make policy proposals. With leading academics and business advisers across the UK, she has also founded The Women's Enterprise Policy Group. The WEPG has called upon the Chancellor to bring women to the policy table to shape enterprise policy during Covid19 that works for women. They will soon launch a policy framework to support women's enterprise through Covid19.
