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Naomi Hanrahan-Soar writes for Building: Are speedier visas enough to ease the skills crisis?
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21 June 2019In an article for Building, Naomi Hanrahan-Soar asks, are speedier visas enough to ease the skills crisis that the Architecture profession is facing?
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Lucy Lewis comments for The Telegraph: South Western Railway strike: Can I be sacked because my trains keep getting cancelled?
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18 June 2019Lucy Lewis has commented in an article for The Telegraph that discusses the five-day rail strike across South Western Railway (SWR) services that's threatening to disrupt journeys for hundreds of thousands of commuters as workers walk out in a long-running dispute over the role of train guards.
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New processes for low-risk nationalities using e-passport gates to enter the UK
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10 June 2019Since 20 May 2019 citizens of Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand Singapore, South Korea and USA have been able to use e-passport gates at airports in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, the East Midlands, Edinburgh, Gatwick, Glasgow, Heathrow, London City, Luton, Manchester and Stansted, as well as the Eurostar terminals at Brussels and Paris.
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Joanna Hunt and Kathryn Denyer write for HR Magazine: Digitalisation of the visa system: What HR should know
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07 June 2019Joanna Hunt and Kathryn Denyer have written an article for HR Magazine that discusses how HR teams need to get up to speed with the transformation of the UK's visa system, including digital visa status and online right to work checks.
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James Davies comments for Compliance Monitor: Office autocrats: facing dominant behaviours in financial services
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06 June 2019James Davies has commented in an article for Compliance Monitor which discusses forceful personalities in the financial services industry, the negative group behaviours that arise from them and how bucking these pressures is a formidable task for an individual and, lamentably, most whistleblowers still experience adverse reprisals.
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Tom Heys comments for The Economist: Don’t talk (too much) about religion at work
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05 June 2019Tom Heys has commented in an article for The Economist which discusses religion in the workplace.
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Toni Lorenzo, Michael Anderson and David Samuels write for People Management: Mitigating the impact of an unlawful team move
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30 May 2019Can you prevent former employees from competing even in the absence of enforceable restrictive covenants? Toni Lorenzo, Michael Anderson and David Samuels report for People Management in light of a recent Court of Appeal ruling.
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James Davies comments for Legal Business: Market Report: Employment – The toughest gig in town
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28 May 2019James Davies comments in an article for Legal Business which discusses how #MeToo's influence on employment litigation in firms is likely to come into full swing in 2019.
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Karen Baxter comments for The Telegraph: The toxic legacy of bosses who just won't quit (like Theresa May)
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24 May 2019Karen Baxter has commented in an article for The Telegraph which asks 'what can employees do when their boss refuses to quit?'
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Michael Burd comments for The Financial Times: Sexual harassment and bullying rife in legal profession
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15 May 2019Michael Burd has commented in an article for The Financial Times that discusses bullying and sexual harassment in the legal profession. Workplace training is having little or no effect on tackling the issues, according to a global survey of 7,000 people working in the sector.
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Richard Miskella comments for The Lawyer: Learning the practical lessons of #MeToo: Two City firms appoint workplace guardians
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03 May 2019Richard Miskella has commented in an article for The Lawyer which discusses #MeToo and the “Guardians Programme” put in place by Lewis Silkin. This has seen us appoint designated members of staff to be a confidential port of call for colleagues who are concerned about behaviours or the culture at work.
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James Davies comments for LexisNexis: Are payslip laws the start of transparency over worker rights?
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26 April 2019James Davies has commented in an article for LexisNexis which discusses the feasibility of payslip laws, the extent of transparency over worker rights and the challenges posed to the government.
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Richard Miskella comments for The Telegraph: Is ‘blind recruitment’ the best way to tackle workplace discrimination?
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15 April 2019Richard Miskella has commented in an article for The Telegraph which discusses the case of Matthew Furlong, who had been the victim of discrimination after being rejected for a job by Cheshire Police, which was in the midst of a diversity drive, because he was a white heterosexual man.
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Tom McEvoy writes for Thomson Reuters: I’m an EU citizen. If I leave the UK before Brexit, can I come back?
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10 April 2019Tom McEvoy has written an article for Thomson Reuters which answers the question, 'If an individual with an EU passport leaves the UK before Brexit, will they be allowed back into the UK after Brexit?'.
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Joanna Hunt and James Walters write for Essential Retail: How prepared is the eCommerce sector for the staffing implications of a no-deal Brexit?
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18 March 2019Joanna Hunt and James Walters have written an article for Essential Retail which discusses the challenges faced by the eCommerce sector to maintain access to labour in the case of a no-deal Brexit.
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Tom Heys comments for The Economist: A ruling about a Jewish teacher in London will help devout bosses
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21 February 2019Tom Heys has commented in an article for The Economist that discusses a recent judgment which arose when a Jewish couple attended a barbecue organised by a kindergarten where the woman taught, which is affiliated to the Chabad Lubavitch movement of Hasidic Jews. The man let slip, in conversation with one of the school’s directors, that the couple were cohabiting.
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Tom Heys, Karen Baxter, Anna Bond: Supporting bisexual and transgender employees in their workplace
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12 February 2019Karen Baxter, Tom Heys and Anna Bond have written an article for HR Review discussing a recent survey by Stonewall that found bi and trans inclusivity was significantly low among employers, prompting the charity’s executive director to call for more to be done to tackle this problem in the workplace.
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Tom Heys writes for People Management: Why ethnicity pay gap reporting may not give a true picture of diversity
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31 January 2019Tom Heys has written an article for People Management where he explains that the inherent variability of organisations’ workforces could mean that transparency reporting might not be as transparent as we think.
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James Davies comments for Het Financieele Dagblad: Discriminatie moet alarmbel doen afgaan
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07 January 2019James Davies has commented in an article which discusses and compares discrimination in the workplace in Britain and the Netherlands.
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Richard Miskella comments for The Telegraph: Is this new app the answer to reporting workplace harassment?
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21 December 2018Richard Miskella has commented in an article for The Telegraph which discusses the Government's crack down on misconduct in the workplace with a commitment to draft a new statutory code of practice that will aim to tackle sexual harassment at work.