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Agenda announced for family leave conference

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The full agenda for the ‘Managing  maternity, paternity and parental leave’ conference is now live on the Symposium Events website. The conference will take place on the 11th March 2014 in London and for a limited time Symposium are offering a 60% booking discount. The keynote speaker will be Kim Wager, Assistant Director at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). Kim has been leading the policy implementation on the new shared parental leave and pay system and will discuss how shared parental leave will work. The conference will also include an open Q&A with Kim and Margaret Davis a Partner at Field Fisher Waterhouse so please come prepared with your legal questions.

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