Events and Training
Stay up-to-date with the developments that impact your business through our range of conferences, seminars, training and webinars.
Show me30th Floor, North Tower, Beijing Kerry Centre, 1 Guanghua Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100020
+86 10 8519 0011
50th Floor, Central Plaza, 18 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
+852 2521 5621
Room 4605, Park Place, 1601 Nanjing West Road, Jing An District, Shanghai, 200040
+8621 6321 1166
Suite 2405, 24/F, SCIA Tower, Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518000
+86 755 6123 5666
Select your language
Please accept the geolocation request appearing in your browser
Find other officesThis session will provide a concise overview of the latest employment developments across four major Middle East jurisdictions and consider the implications for employers operating across borders.
We will highlight changes that may affect day-to-day workforce management, outline areas where local approaches differ and offer guidance on maintaining consistency when applying policies regionally.
Each session offers practical guidance for employers and will conclude with a live Q&A. Participants are also welcome to submit questions in advance via email.
This webinar forms part of a three part webinar series Middle East Employment Law in 2026 led by our Middle East employment law specialists. The series explores the very hot topic of restrictive covenants, emerging discrimination and investigation issues, and unpacks the latest employment law developments across key Middle East jurisdictions. Each session offers practical guidance for employers and will conclude with a live Q&A. Find out more about the two other sessions by exploring the ‘related events’ tab.
12:00pm GST (UAE), 11:00am AST (KSA), 9:00am BST (UK), 8:00am CET
Associate, Pinsent Masons
Associate , Pinsent Masons
Partner, Pinsent Masons
Partner, Pinsent Masons
In the first session of our Middle East employment series, we'll explore how team moves, restrictive covenants and workforce protection are evolving across the DIFC, ADGM and wider UAE, including onshore and non‑financial free zones.
The second session of our Middle East employment series will provide a clear and practical overview of the current anti-discrimination provisions across the Middle East and how the statutory position compares.
Stay up-to-date with the developments that impact your business through our range of conferences, seminars, training and webinars.
Show meFor further information contact:
We use cookies that are essential for our site to work. To improve our site, we would like to use additional cookies to help us understand how visitors use it, measure traffic to our site from social media platforms and to personalise your experience. Some of the cookies that we use are provided by third parties. To accept all cookies click ‘accept all’. To reject all optional cookies click ‘reject all’. To choose which optional cookies to allow click ‘cookie settings’. This tool uses a cookie to remember your choices.
Please visit our cookie policy for more information.