Pic: Eversheds Sutherland
Employment lawyers at global law firm Eversheds Sutherland say that employees have benefited from “a significant change in the balance of power” over the past two years.
Partners Joanne Hyde and Julie Galbraith (pictured) said that issues such as the right to request remote working, work-life balance, and even whistleblowing were now some of the key issues facing employers and human-resources (HR) professionals.
At its annual employment-law evening last night (23 November), revealed the results of a survey showing that more than half of HR and employment professionals were finding “pockets of resistance” when asking employees to work from their offices.
The firm found that 97% of companies had adopted hybrid working.
The survey found that staff retention and requests for higher salaries were the biggest challenges facing their organisations, with both cited by 28% of HR professionals.
A quarter of those surveyed said that recruitment was the biggest issue facing their organisations.
While just over 40% of HR professionals said that they did not think their organisation might be forced to implement redundancies in the next 12 months, 27% did see lay-offs as a possibility.
The areas of day-to-day employment law causing the most concerns for HR and employment executives were poor performance reviews (61%), illness absences (47%), and grievances (44%).
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