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Lewis Silkin ranked sixth in Newsweek’s list of the UK’s Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces
03 November 2022
Lewis Silkin has performed superbly in a comprehensive ranking of organisations that employees love working for. Newsweek surveyed more than 450,000 employees at organisations ranging in size from 50 employees to over 5,000, to find out how connected and satisfied they are with their place of work.
How can employers make their workplaces appeal to older workers?
02 February 2023
With older workers leaving the workforce in worrying numbers, this article considers what an “over 50s friendly” workplace might look like.
Toxic workplaces hit the headlines: a warning to employers to take steps to prevent and tackle workplace misconduct
27 April 2023
Organisational culture continues to experience considerable scrutiny following the findings of bullying by Dominic Raab and the recent allegations of misconduct and sexual harassment at the CBI. Although Raab was critical of where the Tolley Report set the bar in making these adverse findings, his response is at odds with evolving standards of workplace behaviour. What are these standards, and what can employers do to avoid a toxic culture?
Lewis Silkin ranked fourth in Newsweek’s list of the UK’s Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces
05 October 2023
Lewis Silkin has come fourth in a comprehensive ranking of organisations that employees love working for.
Paul Gillen comments on why workplaces must be neurodivergence-aware for the Belfast Telegraph
05 December 2023
While major employers are now actively recruiting people with neurodivergent backgrounds, the number of industrial tribunal cases involving neurodiverse employees has quadrupled in the last four years. Paul Gillen comments for the Belfast Telegraph.
Workplace Data Privacy

Our employment team contains a specialist group of employment lawyers who have expertise in handling the full range of workplace data privacy questions, from advising on: cross border data flows; monitoring; background checks and vetting; DSARs, ICO complaints; and the introduction of new technologies in the workplace.
Workplace rights : General strikes
03 January 2013
Michael Burd and James Davies discuss anti-austerity unrest and explain where the law stands on general strikes in an article for Management Today.
Policies on porn: how to tackle internet misuse in the workplace
16 October 2013
In a Reuters article, Russell Brimelow discusses large financial institutions' policies towards employees accessing, or attempting to access, pornography whilst at work.
Muslim Staff Policy: How Religious Freedom Fits in the Workplace
23 December 2013
Commenting in an International Business Times article, James Davies discusses flaws in the definition of indirect discrimination after cases where a major retailer faced public fury when it was revealed the company allowed shop assistants the right to refuse to sell alcohol and pork products and a Christian worker at British Airways was asked to cover up a necklace which depicted a cross.
Workplace Rights: Covert recording by employees
28 January 2015
Michael Burd and James Davies have written an article for Management Today.
Religion, holidays and days off in the global workplace
08 April 2015
Tom Heys has contributed to an article for Corporate Counsel which looks at religion, holidays and days off in the global workplace.
Lewis Silkin LLP and myGwork team up for a diverse and inclusive workplace
26 February 2016
Geraint Lloyd-Taylor and Alan Hunt have been talking with myGwork, the global recruitment hub for LGBT professionals, about Lewis Silkin’s commitment to diversity & inclusion through our various memberships, activities and initiatives
Mental Health Issues in the Workplace
17 May 2016
The session will focus particularly on stress at work and how that can be managed, and we will use a filmed case study to illustrate common issues and pitfalls when dealing with a stressed employee.
Mental health issues in the workplace
29 September 2016
Stress at work (and its causes) are a hotly debated topic in the advertising and marketing services sector. Millions of working days are lost each year to common mental health conditions such as stress, anxiety and depression. Managing the absence results in both financial costs but also legal risks such as disability discrimination or personal injury.
Workplace sexual harassment - how employers in Europe must respond
31 October 2016
Hannah Price has written an article for People Management discussing Workplace sexual harassment and how employers in Europe must respond. The article comments on how more than half the women surveyed by the TUC earlier this year said that they had been sexually harassed at work, with most admitting they had not reported it.
Hong Kong Corporate Counsel Association: Workplace data protection in the EU
11 January 2017
Lewis Silkin are hosting the first CPD seminar of 2017 held by the Hong Kong Corporate Counsel Association focusing on practical advice on what Asian multinationals can do to protect their EU (and UK) based subsidiaries in terms of data protection in the workplace.
Achieving workplace transformation - the changing nature of work
18 January 2017
The combined forces of globalisation, technological advances, shifting demographics and changing workforce expectations are causing a transformation in work.
Workplace privacy 11 ways to prepare for the GDPR - FULLY BOOKED
01 June 2017
The data protection landscape is about to be transformed, with the coming into force of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) on 25 May 2018.
Workplace privacy: 11 ways to prepare for the GDPR
02 June 2017
The data protection landscape is about to be transformed, with the coming into force of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) on 25 May 2018.
Workplace privacy: 11 ways to prepare for the GDPR - Reading
14 June 2017
The data protection landscape is about to be transformed, with the coming into force of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) on 25 May 2018.