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Working Time Change Masterclass

28th February 2012,
The Royal Holloway University of London

“How Lean Employee Resourcing can reduce costs and meet the customers rising expectations”
This particular Masterclass targets the challenges faced by the public sector. (click here for our next private sector event)

Subjects Covered

• How to reduce and control labour costs, improve productivity, service levels and staff morale
• Overcoming dependency on overtime
• Change management tactics
• Developing working/shift patterns to more accurately meet the changing needs of the organisation
• Increase labour flexibility
• Changing shift patterns to meet both employee work life balance and the needs of the business
• The legal perspective to working time change

If the above subjects are of interest to you and your organisation then you will derive significant organisational benefit from attending this new Working Time in the Public Sector Masterclass.

Qualified speakers

The Masterclass will also feature a case study from the Royal Holloway University, a presentation on employment law within the public sector from ClarksLegal LLP as well as guidance from Lean Employee Resourcing specialist Working Time Solutions.

The event is hosted by Working Time Solutions (WTS), the authors of the Personnel Today One-Stop Guide: “Managing Working Time”. Expert guidance will be provided by Directors of WTS: Martin Gee (Consulting) and Rob Crossman (Service Delivery). Working Time Solutions Ltd has been responsible for the successful implementation of working time change programmes within the public sector environments. Clients include Glasgow City Council, Cheshire West and Chester Council, Maidstone Borough Council, Torfaen County Borough Council, Historic Royal Palaces, South Central Ambulance Service and East Midlands Ambulance Service as well as major organisations in the private sector such as Severn Trent Water, Thames Water and BAA.

For more information, including a detailed agenda either:

• Visit the events calendar on this site and register your interest there
• Email events@workingtime-solutions.com
• Telephone : 0161 720 5050
• Write to us at :
  Working Time Solutions Limited, 208 Middleton Road, Manchester M8 4NA

For more information on specific events, please click here to go the Events Calendar Page

The 6^th Annual Working Time Change Forum

14th & 15th March 2012,
Celtic Manor Resort, South Wales

“The Economic and Financial case for change and the principles of Lean Employee Resourcing”
Suitable for both private and public sectors

The Working Time Change Forum covers a broad range of working time issues that commonly affect organisations – especially relevant in today’s economic climate. This two day residential forum brings together organisations from a broad range of sectors. Delegates have the opportunity to hear and learn from organisations who have themselves implemented working time change strategies utilising Lean Employee Resourcing methods – including the benefits achieved and the pitfalls to avoid.

Subjects Covered

Day 1 will be taking a hard look at the massive financial benefits which can be achieved by using Lean Employee Rourcing and Day 2 will look at how organisations actually implement these strategies including real case studies from guest speakers and the theory behind Lean Employee Resourcing.

• How the financial imperative to reduce and control labour costs is driving positive change, retention of skills and maintenance and creation of jobs in both public and private sectors. Why overtime cultures, agency and contractor dependence no longer meet the need for cost predictable flexibility in the workplace. How Lean-ER, Annualisation and Demand-led strategies help

• Working time change - What are the paybacks and benefits and where exactly do they come from? An examination of labour cost versus headcount strategies, the cost of redundancy, non-productive time and premium pay for voluntary mechanisms, the cost of labour management and achieving greater or lesser capacity/throughput
• The principles of Lean Employee Resourcing (Lean-ER)
• Overcoming dependency on expensive overtime and demand-led rostering techniques and shift pattern design
• Change management tactics and the design and development process and the analysis of supply and demand
• Understanding what impact shift work has on Health and Safety
• The legal aspects to working time change

By looking differently at how your employee resources are deployed, using technology to develop and manage new working arrangements and shift patterns that match demand (even when it changes throughout the year) and giving team members more flexibility about when they work;  productivity increases, efficiency is improved and costs begin to fall. It is an approach referred to as Lean Employee Resourcing (Lean-ER) and this will be discussed in detail at the Forum.

The forum also features leading employment law specialists who will be covering the legal aspects which need to be considered when introducing working time change and the Health and Safety Executive will be discussing the impact shift work has on Health and Safety.

Featuring expert Lean-ER specialists, delegates will also have the opportunity to hear directly from speakers who use the Lean-ER approach including:

• Thames Water - The UK's largest water and sewerage company
• Accolade Wines - The number one wine company by volume in the UK and Australia
• Celtic Manor Resort - Voted Wales’ Leading Hotel, World Travel Awards 2007

The forum also includes leading employment law specialists ClarksLegal LLP who will be covering the legal aspects which need to be considered when introducing working time change and the Health and Safety Executive will be discussing the impact shift work has on Health and Safety. We are pleased to announce that the Trades Union Congress (TUC) will also be describing their positioning with regards to working time change.

For more information, including a detailed agenda either:

• Visit the events calendar on this site and register your interest there
• Email events@workingtime-solutions.com
• Telephone : 0161 720 5050
• Write to us at :
  Working Time Solutions Limited, 208 Middleton Road, Manchester M8 4NA

For more information on specific events, please click here to go the Events Calendar Page

Feed-back from previous delegates of previous events :

“The speakers were most relevant because of the practical information given regarding the implementation of annualised hours” Wessex Water

Read more feedback here

To find out more about the many services available from Working Time Solutions – including consultancy, software and Lean-ER itself – then please don’t hesitate to contact us or submit an information request and we shall be happy to find out how we can help. All our solutions start with talking and listening: we look forward to beginning the conversation soon.