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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
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.
Lewis Silkin authors a chapter in David Liddle's 'Managing Conflict: a practical guide to resolution in the workplace’
25 September 2017
Laura Farnsworth, Partner and Laurence Mills, Associate, in our Employment, Immigration and Reward team have authored Chapter 4 of the guide: 'Managing conflict from a legal perspective'.
Michael Burd comments for LexisNexis: Workplace sexual harassment—time to ‘shake up the current ineffectiveness of the system’?
28 March 2018
Michael Burd discusses the Equality and Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) focus on ‘corrosive’ cultures leading to workplace harassment, in an article for LexisNexis.
Penny Newman comments for Raconteur: Does workplace design really matter?
19 July 2018
In an article for Raconteur, Penny Newman comments on workplace design and the approach Lewis Silkin is taking "to get the environment suited to the work we do."
Lewis Silkin's Conference Tackles Mental Health in the Workplace
16 October 2019
89% of attendees said they felt mental health issues are on the rise in their organisation. A third said their workplace does not have a mental health strategy or programme.
Supreme Court Extends Ability of Employees Working Overseas to Bring Claims in the UK
09 February 2012
The Supreme Court has handed down a significant ruling on the ability of an employee who worked overseas to make a claim for unfair dismissal in the UK, in the case of Ravat v Halliburton Manufacturing and Services Ltd. The full article can be read on the Global Employment Law blog
Flexible working - the backlash
23 May 2013
In a Financial Times article, Russell Brimelow discusses Flexible Working and how often some employers don’t realise they have health and safety obligations if staff are working from home. Not only does technology need to be safe, but the working environment needs to be as risk-free as practicable too.
James Davies comments on 'flexible working and gender pay most likely to affect business'
09 June 2016
Flexible working and gender pay reporting are the issues most likely to have an impact on companies during the next five years, according to research.
Working Effectively with Trade Unions: Post Brexit and Trade Unions Act
23 January 2017
Lewis Silkin is delighted to be speaking at the upcoming 10th Annual Conference: Working Effectively with Trade Unions : Post-Brexit and Trade Unions Act in London on 1 February.
Laura Farnsworth spoke to SLOAN! Magazine: Lewis Silkin uses innovative working practices to improve work-life balance for lawyers with children
12 December 2017
Laura Farnsworth spoke to SLOAN! Magazine about the challenges faced by those with young families working in the legal sector and what led to the firm establishing rockhopper – our fixed fee HR and employment law service for businesses which allows lawyers to work flexibly from home.
In-house service reflects workforce ‘shift’
14 September 2015
Russell Brimelow comments in The Law Society Gazette on LS In-house, our in-house resourcing service in relation to shifting patterns in legal resourcing.
Managing an International Workforce: 2017 & Beyond
09 February 2017
Lewis Silkin’s market leading employment practice last week hosted its 13th annual Managing an International Workforce conference in London.
Andrew Osborne comments for the International Bar Association: Supporting the workforce through Brexit
02 May 2018
In an article for the International Bar Association, Andrew Osborne discusses the negative impact Brexit will have on retaining and recruiting staff from the EU.
UK’s Supreme Court rules ‘workfare’ legally flawed
31 October 2013
In a Financial Times article, Carla Davidson comments upon a Supreme Court ruling that the Government's controversial back to work schemes, which require jobseekers to work for free or risk losing their benefits, were legally flawed.
The state of migration: employing migrant workers
21 March 2013
Practice Development Lawyers Samar Shams and Bethan Carney, have contributed to a report for The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) which explores the trends and the factors that influence employers in recruiting migrant workers. The report discusses issues such as skills shortages, the availability of UK-born workers, and ‘work ethic’.
Naming foreign workers 'could breach discrimination law'
06 October 2016
Andrew Osborne has commented in an article for The Brief from The Times following Amber Rudd's proposal to force employers to list their foreign workers. Andrew states: "These proposals are a very crude attempt to try to bully employers" and "Companies already have to go through a complex and expensive system to sponsor any non-EEA workers and so do not do it if they can find local staff of the same standard".
Lewis Silkin cited in the HR Director: Is there any need for a Brexit bonfire of workers’ rights?
03 July 2017
Lewis Silkin has been mentioned in an article for the HR Director which draws on the recent survey undertaken by the firm, in partnership with the CIPD: ‘Employment regulation in the UK: burden or benefit?.