Overview & Audience

Please join us for our latest Employment Law Update with People in Law. In this session we’ll be exploring the following topics:

Philosophical belief

– The forgotten area of D&I? It is unlawful to discriminate against someone because of their philosophical beliefs, or indeed because of a lack of belief; but how far does this extend and what is a philosophical belief?

– How do law firms embed this in their D&I – and how may it impact the following?

• Vegetarianism and Ethical Veganism
• Transgenderism
• COVID
• Disagreements with working with particular clients (due to ESG reasons)

ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance)

– What ESG is and what it means for law firms.

– What HR teams in law firms should be doing.

Diversity

– Consultation on disability workforce reporting.

• The government is currently consulting on disability workforce reporting for large businesses with 250 or more employees. The consultation asks for information on current reporting practices and views on implementing a mandatory approach.
• The government’s response is expected to be published by 17 June 2022, as part of the National Disability Strategy.
• Discussion around what this may mean for HR.

– Promotion of diversity in the legal sector.

• Update on SRA diversity data survey 2021.
• Discussion around whether the profession is becoming more diverse / more willing to fill in diversity data, etc.

Flexible Working Requests

Discussion around flexible working requests from...

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