Employment Law Conference speaker Sean Jones KC has done it all, representing all manner of companies from Aston Villa and Everton in disputes with players, managers and staff, to Amazon, easyJet, HMRC and the Met Police.

When it comes to the finer legal intricacies of employment law, if Sean doesn’t know it, it isn’t worth knowing.

Ahead of his appearance as speaker at AGCC’s Employment Law Conference - organised in partnership with sponsors Pinsent Masons and Burness Paull – Sean set out how important the area of law is.

He said: “Employment law is important in lots of really significant ways. If you think about discrimination law, it has been an engine for social change, so the law has constantly been ahead of where we were socially.

“When I came to the bar back in 1991 you still had people who would, when you had a redundancy exercise, sack the women on the basis they were much less likely to be bread-winners and fewer families would be going without earnings.

“Still today I’m doing a lot of equal pay law and people find it difficult to get their heads around the notation that men and women should earn the same money for the same work – but it’s more widely accepted than it was.

“Those laws went ahead of where society was.

“Employment law has a social importance, but it also has a political importance.

“It’s one of those areas, a bit like tax law, that no government leaves alone. In every manifesto there’s always some change proposed.”

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