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ESRC Seminar on Cancer & Employment: The Legal and Insurance Context

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Venue: Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square

No booking required

The METIS Collaboration, which the Centre for Sustainable Working Life is part of, presents this ESRC funded Seminar Series designed to identify and discuss current issues relating to the employment of those with cancer and promote the translation of our research knowledge into policy and practice. The series focuses on the psychological, social, organizational and economic issues.

This seminar is the third of six discussion seminars and is focused on the legal and insurance contexts.

Programme:

09.30 REGISTRATION & COFFEE

10.00 Welcome & Introduction: ESRC Programme & Seminar

10.30 Speaker: Joy Reymond, Head Vocational Rehabilitation Services, UNUM
Cancer & Employment: An Insurance Industry Perspective
With the medical advances in the treatment of cancer, many people of working age are recovering from, or living with, cancer. Reflecting these changes, cancer is now one of the most common reasons for long term sickness absence. Many people with cancer now expect to return to work, but the journey back is not always straightforward. Insurance companies are developing customised services to support people through this, and Joy will speak about some of the many issues that surround the employees and their employers, as they figure out whether or how they can return to work.

11.10 Speaker: Cerys Bartley, Manager Working through Cancer Partnerships:
 Your Rights When Working with Cancer
There are currently 750,000 people of working with age living with cancer in the UK. With this number set to rise to 1.7 million by 2030 it's vital that employers and employees are prepared for the impact of cancer on the workplace and understand how to support employees with cancer to continue to do their jobs. Currently less than 50% of people with cancer are aware of the additional rights afforded them under the Equality Act 2010. Your Rights When Working with Cancer will explore these rights, in particular the right to reasonable adjustments. We'll examine the employee and employer perspective of making reasonable adjustments and how these can enable someone with cancer to remain in work, with the associated benefits this brings to both employer and employee.

11.50 Speaker: Professor Tom Cox CBE, Centre for Sustainable Working Life, Birkbeck, University of London
 Cancer & Work: Thinking About Issues in Health & Safety
Professor Cox will present an overview of the issues that can arise in the context of health and safety law in relation to cancer survival and employment. His presentation will make reference to existing health and safety legislation in the UK and in Europe and give some consideration to the stress-related aspects of working on with cancer.

12.30 Open Discussion

13.00 BUFFET LUNCH

13.45 Group Discussion
 Key issues, Future Priorities, Strategies and Actions & Knowledge Gaps

15.00 Feedback & Plenary Discussions

15.45 Closing Comments

16.00 END

Registration

The seminar is open to all those involved with issues of cancer and employment or who have a real interest in that area. Seminars in the present series have attracted a multidisciplinary and multi-professional participation involving academics, advisers, researchers, practitioners and policy makers. These have been drawn from across the broad spectrum of health and care professions, employers, Human Resources, trades unions and occupational health services, the legal and insurance industries

The event is free. There is an upper limit on available places.

Registration is now open. Please register via the Eventbrite website. For more information please email us at cswl@bbk.ac.uk.

Refreshments

Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided at the beginning of the morning session and during the afternoon. A buffet lunch will also be provided.

Travel

Gordon Square is one of the many beautiful squares which are found in Bloomsbury; squares with much history.

It is easily accessible from both Euston and St Pancras / Kings Cross mainline stations and is also a short walk from Marylebone mainline station. The nearest tube stations, in addition to those serving the mainline stations are: Russell Square, Goodge Street and Euston Square.

Travel details to Birbeck's Central London Campus is available by clicking here.

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