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Resourcing for 2021: wider impacts of the present crisis
10 March 2021The final instalment of our three-part series of articles exploring resourcing challenges, opportunities and trends in 2021 examines a range of employment issues including reward strategy, outsourcing and collective representation.
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一時帰休スキームが2021年9月まで延長
04 March 2021政府は全セクターに対する一時帰休スキームについて、2021年9月30日までの延長と、7月1日からの雇用主による拠出の段階的な引き上げを発表しました。
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Court of Appeal rejects human rights challenge to UK union recognition regime
04 March 2021The Court of Appeal has rejected a trade union’s contention that the block on it applying to the Central Arbitration Committee for recognition because an employer already recognised another independent trade union was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Furlough scheme extended to September 2021
04 March 2021The chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced an extension of the furlough scheme for all sectors until 30 September 2021, with employer contributions gradually increasing from 1 July.
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The world of employment law: Pay and reward
02 March 2021Employer responsibilities in terms of fair pay and contributions towards taxes and company benefits have remained high on the agenda, despite a difficult year for business.
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Gender pay gap reporting – six-month deadline extension announced
25 February 2021Employers must report their gender pay gap statistics relating to the “snapshot date” of 5 April 2020, but they now have until 4 October 2021 to do so following an extension of the deadline due to the impact of Covid-19.
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Lewis Silkin participate in Law Society LGBT+ podcast on bullying and harassment
25 February 2021Two members of Lewis Silkin’s Diversity Board discuss issues faced by the LGBT+ community.
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The world of employment law: Working parents and carers
23 February 2021Many countries are continuing to deal with calls for greater leave entitlements and flexibility for working parents and carers.
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言葉のアクセントについての差別、「コードスイッチング」および平等法
23 February 2021最近のフランスの法律は、地域の言葉のアクセントのある人に対する差別を禁止している。この記事では、言葉のアクセントについての差別についての英国の法的立場を考察し、「コードスイッチング」に関連する問題とその潜在的な悪影響について考察する。A recent French law has banned discrimination against someone because of their regional accent. This article looks at the UK’s legal position in relation to accent discrimination and considers the related issue of “codeswitching” and its potential negative impacts.
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Supreme Court confirms that Uber drivers are workers
22 February 2021The Supreme Court has unanimously decided that drivers engaged by Uber are workers rather than independent contractors. It also decided that drivers are working when they are signed into the Uber app and ready to work.
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The world of employment law: Diversity and inclusion
18 February 2021In the US, President Trump controversially issued Executive Order 13950 prohibiting federal contractors and federal grant recipients from conducting workplace diversity training that included certain concepts (such as that individuals bear responsibility for past discrimination by others).
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The world of employment law: Zooming into the future – the employment law response to the huge shift in working patterns
17 February 2021As widely discussed, the pandemic has caused, or perhaps merely accelerated, a mass shift towards homeworking amongst office-based employees. A survey by Eurofound found that over a third of employees across the EU member states were working exclusively at home during the pandemic.
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Ireland’s Immigrant Investor Programme – the allure of inward investment in return for residency
16 February 2021How does the Irish government’s Immigrant Investor Programme work, what benefits does it have and how can high-net-worth individuals use it as a means of obtaining residency rights in Ireland?
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Posting employees to the EU, EEA or Switzerland? Don’t forget the social security position
15 February 2021In a welcome move last week, the EU notified the UK that all EU countries will apply the “detached workers” exception to UK employees who are temporarily seconded to work in the EU. Similarly the UK will apply the detached workers exception for EU employees who are temporarily seconded to work in the UK. This article reviews the latest position.
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Unconscious bias training should never be a tick-box exercise
10 February 2021Despite the government’s decision to stop training civil servants about unconscious bias, employers should commit to providing ongoing training on this issue as an effective means of improving diversity and inclusion.
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The world of employment law: The year of pandemic, protest and politics
10 February 2021Early 2020 saw the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. It rapidly criss-crossed the world, killing thousands of people, overrunning healthcare systems, devastating businesses, closing schools, and presenting an unprecedented challenge for leaders.
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이소영 루이스 실킨 변호사 언론 인터뷰 기사: 탐사기획 – 법관징계 리포트
10 February 2021Soyoung Lee's press interview article: investigation project – judiciary disciplinary system
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Employer acted unlawfully by disciplining union activist for use of its IT systems
27 January 2021University College London has lost its appeal against an Employment Tribunal’s decision that it unlawfully disciplined a union activist for refusing to comply with an instruction to take down an email list he had created for union communications.
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Suspended union activist’s application for injunction refused
27 January 2021The High Court has refused a trade union activist’s application for an interim injunction to end his suspension and stop a probation hearing from considering whether he should be dismissed for his views on his new employer’s business model and his previous union activities.