Almas Conference Centre
Almas Tower, JLT
22 October 2026
9:00am – 9:30am – Registration and networking
9:30am – 12:30pm – Workshop begins
Explore the DMCC Tea Centre
Access world-class processing, storage, tea blending, and packaging facilities, along with valuable networking opportunities.
Blending and product development
Tea tasting and evaluation facilities
Packaging across multiple formats
Temperature-controlled storage and warehousing
Member-to-member trade within a global tea network
Recruitment, onboarding, visa compliance and workforce engagement models
Employment contracts, handbooks, supplemental agreements and restrictive covenants
Statutory entitlements, including leave, overtime and end-of-service benefits
Performance, misconduct, redundancy, workplace investigations and termination payments
Employment disputes, mediation, court proceedings and common litigation risks
Emma Noble
Managing Senior Associate,
Pinsent Masons
Speaker Profile
Emma Noble
Managing Senior Associate,Pinsent Masons
Emma advises local and multi-national businesses with respect to all of their Middle East and UK employment law and HR requirements. Emma is based in the UAE and has experience advising employers on UAE labour law matters (including in the UAE's economic free zones, including the DIFC and ADGM), as well as all of the key GCC jurisdictions. Emma supports and advises clients on a wide range of employment law and HR matters, both contentious and non-contentious in nature. This includes employee relations, dismissals, strategic employee litigation, contractual queries/disputes, breach of privacy/confidential information, restrictive covenants and also on large, multi-jurisdictional employment law projects.
Emma has spent time on secondments to clients including acting as in-house advisor to its HR and Employee Relations team where she gained an appreciation of the day-to-day employment challenges faced by organisations.
Lujain Assaf
Managing Senior Associate,
Pinsent Masons
Speaker Profile
Lujain Assaf
Managing Senior Associate,Pinsent Masons
Lujain is part of employment team at the firm’s Middle East employment practice. Lujain is a dual qualified lawyer in both the UK and Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, giving her a well-rounded understanding both common law and civil law.
Lujain primarily assists clients in relation to UAE, Qatar, KSA Labour Law and DIFC Employment law matters. Lujain regularly advises clients on contentious and non-contentious matters and represents clients in relation to a wide variety of onshore UAE Labour Law and DIFC Employment law litigation matters, covering all aspects of employment law claims.