Working with French colleagues? With a better understanding of the French legal framework and cultural differences, many businesses thrive in this environment.
In this workshop, we will go over the French legal framework and the main employment law aspects to consider. We will also look at the employment relationships and the specific HR requirements for SMEs.
Who is this event aimed at?
The event is aimed at companies with subsidiaries in France, UK managers managing French teams, companies thinking about starting out in France and HR professionals supporting French operations.
How will members benefit from attending?
Members attending will gain...
- practical tips
- the opportunity to share their challenges and benefit from group experiences.
- an overview of French employment practices
- an understanding of the main cultural differences in employment relationships.
About the Workshop host
Viridian HR was founded by Karine Lipinski to meet the HR needs of fast-growing SMEs and businesses with French operations. Usually fast paced with performance, productivity, customer and employee experience at the forefront of everything they do, these businesses need modern and agile HR support.
Viridian HR helps with People Strategy, HR audits, Employee engagement and wellbeing assessments as well as change projects, compliance and employment law. Viridian HR also supports UK businesses with French operations.
Karine Lipinski - HR Consultant
Karine has more than 15 years of experience in Human Resources at all levels and People Management. Her approach to HR is very much driven by commercial goals and as such operates in the mindset of a true HR Business Partner. She is Chartered MCIPD.
Karine has gained international experience and is culturally integrated in both the UK and France with a Masters Degree in Human Resources in both countries and is fluent in French and English.
She has supported a number of organisations such as Photobox, EnGlobe, Renault and Telelogic and is comfortable working in post-merger and acquisition environments. As a person, Karine is highly organised, pragmatic, passionate and approachable which makes it easy to relate to her.
Emmanuelle Sutton- HR assistant
Emmanuelle has over 15 years’ experience in marketing, customer service and training in the IT industry. She has worked as a European training manager for a major American IT company where her role consisted in organising and supervising the delivery of all technical training in 12 European countries.
As part of her background, Emmanuelle is university educated and has lived in England for over 28 years. She is culturally integrated in both the UK and France and is Fluent in French and English.
Date:
28 February, 2020 - 28 February, 2020
Time:
9:30am - 11:00am
Registration from 9.00am
Location:
Buckinghamshire Business First Hub, West Wing, University Campus, Queen Alexandra Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP11 2GZ
Please note:
Parking
The nearest car parks to the West Wing:
Park & Ride
The car park is located near junction 4 of the M40 and offers a free bus service. Use the Wycombe Hospital stop and walk through the concourse to the West Wing.
By Foot
When arriving on foot, please note that the entrance to the West Wing building is on Lily’s Walk opposite the rear entrance to the Eden Car park.
Waiting List:
Once the event is fully booked you can be added to our waiting list.
Member to member workshops are run for members by members on their area of expertise. Find out more here https://bbf.uk.com/events/workshops
