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Catherine Leung and Lewis Silkin recognised in the Doyles Guides Awards 2022
25 May 2022We are delighted to announce that Catherine Leung has been recognised as a Leading Lawyer and Lewis Silkin has been awarded a Second Tier ranking in Employment & Labour in the Doyles Guides awards 2022.
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Ethnicity pay gap reporting and intersectionality
17 May 2022The government has said that ethnicity pay gap reporting won’t be mandatory, but many employers are choosing to do it anyway, adding ethnicity pay gap reporting to their existing obligation to report gender pay gaps each year. But what about the intersection of ethnicity AND gender?
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Offering employment to refugees from Ukraine
12 May 2022According to the UNHCR, one of the key contributors to refugee integration is meaningful employment - enabling self-sufficiency and social connections. The Government is now running three immigration schemes for people arriving in the UK from Ukraine, and this week has shed a little more light on how these tie in with access to the labour market.
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Gender pay gap reporting in Ireland – new guidance published
12 May 2022The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has finally published some details on how employers will have to calculate their gender pay gap statistics.
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TUPE: Whose liability is it anyway?
12 May 2022A recent TUPE case has illustrated how both the transferor and transferee can be found liable for failure to inform or consult under TUPE.
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The Queen's Speech 2022
11 May 2022The 2022 Queen’s speech was widely expected to be the moment when the government finally announced its intention to implement a number of significant employment law reforms, including the long-anticipated Employment Bill. Instead, there is no mention of the Bill and only two provisions that touch on employment rights at all. Does this signal the demise of all these changes, or are they simply delayed?
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Siobhra Rush has provided insight in the Irish Times on how best to deal with the challenges of hybrid/remote working
10 May 2022Siobhra Rush shares her comments on the challenges managers face when it comes to hybrid and remote working and how best to deal with them.
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Climate-related whistleblowing
04 May 2022The climate emergency will be a major concern to employees in the years ahead. This may lead to a rise in climate-related whistleblowing and future litigation.
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Ireland: New legislation in Ireland on flexible working aims to implement EU Directive and modernise family and caring leave. Linda Hynes comments for Business Post.
04 May 2022This Working Life: New EU directive aims to bring parental leave into the modern age
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Empathic AI – workplace data privacy and employment issues arising from this emerging technology
04 May 2022Smile! You’re on camera! And we are detecting your heart rate, pupil dilation, blood pressure, temperature, and other physiognomic measurements… Empathic Artificial Intelligence is a sub-group of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems which makes use of empathic technology: algorithms that purportedly have the ability to detect human emotions. In this article we consider the data privacy and employment issues for employers arising from this emerging technology.
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High Court enforces 12-month non-compete clause
28 April 2022The High Court has upheld a covenant restricting a solicitor from joining a competitor for 12 months following the termination of her employment. This decision reinforces the importance of carefully drafting restrictive covenants in employment contracts to ensure the scope of any restrictions go no further than is reasonably necessary to protect an employer’s legitimate business interests.
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Government consultation on reform of non-compete clauses in employment contracts: an update (of sorts)
28 April 2022The government has confirmed that it is still analysing responses to its consultation on reforming non-compete clauses and that its response will be published in due course, following further research.
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Gender pay gap reporting: 5 years on
28 April 2022Now that we’ve had gender pay gap reporting regulations for over 5 years, we’ve taken a look at the impact of the regime.
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Ireland: Key points from the recently announced Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill
26 April 2022The Irish government has approved the drafting of a Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill.
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Linda Hynes comments for RTE’s Morning Ireland radio show on the new Work Life Balance Bill in Ireland
22 April 2022The Work-Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill was brought to the Ireland Cabinet on 20 April 2022. The new bill aims to give effect to an EU Work-Life Balance Directive.
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Laura Ensor and Síobhra Rush explain how Ireland’s proposed auto-enrolment pension scheme is likely to work
21 April 2022In a recent article for Think Business, Síobhra Rush and Laura Ensor explain how the proposed auto-enrolment pension scheme is likely to work following the Irish government’s announcement on the principles of the proposed Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System (the “auto-enrolment system”) for Ireland.
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Sports Q&A: Conducting misconduct investigations
12 April 2022In an increasingly complex legal and regulatory landscape, dealing with the intricacies of investigations can be fraught with difficulties, especially in a sports context. Often conducted under intense scrutiny, from the media and stakeholders, allegations need to be carefully and appropriately investigated to maintain your reputation and mitigate legal risk. In this Q&A we consider some of the key questions when conducting a investigation into your staff, coaches, officials or members.
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Court of Appeal lifts restriction on employers responding to industrial action
07 April 2022The Court of Appeal has ruled that UK legislation does not prevent employers from taking steps falling short of dismissal in response to industrial action. The UK may be in breach of its international commitments over trade union rights, but it is for Parliament and not the courts to address this sensitive issue.
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Gender pay gap reporting 2021: our analysis of the latest results
07 April 2022Employers had until 4 April 2022 to publish their gender pay gap statistics relating to 5 April 2021. Now that the results are in, we’ve taken a look at what they reveal.