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Lewis Silkin's Conference Tackles Mental Health in the Workplace
16 October 201989% 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.
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No place for pregnancy discrimination at the workplace in Hong Kong
04 September 2023The Claimant was a former employee of the Respondent, a logistics company. Between 2007 – 2011, the Claimant was employed by affiliated companies within the same group. From April 2011, the Claimant began working for the Respondent under successive yearly contracts. Whilst employed by the Respondent, the Claimant received various recognition and appraisals for her work. She was also awarded an annual end-of-year bonus for each year during the period from 2011 to 2016.
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Supreme Court Extends Ability of Employees Working Overseas to Bring Claims in the UK
09 February 2012The 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
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Flexible working - the backlash
23 May 2013In 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.
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A glitch in time – European Court rules on travelling as ‘working time’
11 September 2015The European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) has ruled that, for workers with no fixed or habitual place of work, travelling time to and from the first and last customer appointments of the day should count as “working time” for the purposes of the EU Working Time Directive (“WTD”).
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James Davies comments on 'flexible working and gender pay most likely to affect business'
09 June 2016Flexible working and gender pay reporting are the issues most likely to have an impact on companies during the next five years, according to research.
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Dealing with flexible working
23 November 2016This workshop will look at different types of flexibility and how to handle flexible working requests in practice, using both written and fi lmed case studies to illustrate the issues.Summary ...
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Flexible working - the right to ask
13 January 2017Employees seeking a better balance between the demands of work and personal life may seek a change in their working arrangements – for example by part-time working, job-sharing or a change in working hours.
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Working Effectively with Trade Unions: Post Brexit and Trade Unions Act
23 January 2017Lewis 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.
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Ignorance isn't bliss... especially with illegal working
16 March 2017If you’re considering restructuring the service company which employs most of your staff, and that company holds your sponsorship licence, you may need to apply for a new sponsor licence and transfer your sponsored migrants accordingly.
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Agile working – the legal alarm bells that should be ringing
11 July 2017The days of a stuffy office environment are gradually becoming a thing of the past. Over the years a move has been made away from cellular offices to the more popular open plan set up – however for many companies, especially those in creative industries, open plan offices are no longer enough. This is a key issue for tenants in office premises as they consider what to do with the space they are in.
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Agile working
12 September 2017Work trends and patterns are constantly changing, particularly in the creative industries. In this session we will be discussing the ways in which agencies in the post-Brexit era can reduce property costs by implementing smarter ways of working and using their properties.
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Illegal working penalties released; name, shame and make them pay
25 September 2017The ONS has released the illegal working civil penalties data for the first quarter of 2017. The revenue raised was £5,900,000, prior to any adjustment following objections to the penalties. Given the population difference, it is not surprising that London and the South East had the highest number of penalties applied and illegal workers found but there were still large numbers issues in the Midlands and North West as well.
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Laura Farnsworth spoke to SLOAN! Magazine: Lewis Silkin uses innovative working practices to improve work-life balance for lawyers with children
12 December 2017Laura 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.
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Hong Kong - Working effectively across cultures
11 June 2018In our latest session for HR professionals in Hong Kong we will be joined by global cultural fluency expert Keith Warburton who helps multinationals operate more effectively across cultures and languages.
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Preventing illegal working: employers able to rely on online right to work checks from 28 January 2019
14 December 2018In some circumstances employers will be able to use the Home Office Right to Work Checking Service available on GOV.UK from 28 January 2019 to obtain a statutory excuse against payment of a civil penalty for employing an illegal worker, without having also to check the individual’s physical documents.
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In-house service reflects workforce ‘shift’
14 September 2015Russell Brimelow comments in The Law Society Gazette on LS In-house, our in-house resourcing service in relation to shifting patterns in legal resourcing.
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General APAC round-up and focus on the on-demand workforce - Hong Kong
13 December 2016The ‘on-demand’ or so-called ‘gig economy’ would appear to provide workers with greater control and flexibility to choose when and how to work while connecting employers with available skilled labour when they need it. But what hidden dangers lie in an on-demand workforce?
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General APAC round-up and focus on the on demand workforce - Seoul
15 December 2016The ‘on-demand’ or so-called ‘gig economy’ would appear to provide workers with greater control and flexibility to choose when and how to work while connecting employers with available skilled labour when they need it. But what hidden dangers lie in an on-demand workforce?
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Managing an International Workforce: 2017 & Beyond
03 February 2017We are pleased to announce our next annual Managing an International Workforce conference, our market leading gathering of several hundred HR professionals, in house lawyers and others with international employment responsibilities.