Welcome to this month's briefing for HR teams and in-house employment counsel – bringing you employment law highlights in an easy-to-read package with our monthly podcast.
Covid-19 changed the world of work in fundamental ways. The shift to agile and remote working patterns has been especially profound and the existing framework under which employees can submit formal requests for flexible working has been reformed, partly to reflect post-Covid changes in attitudes and expectations, and in this month’s podcast Olivia Wistow-Hughes joins Matthew Ramsey to discuss the new arrangements and what employers will need to do to keep up-to-date. Listen to the podcast.
Allegations of sexual misconduct in the workplace are often in the press. In case you haven’t read it, Constance Shaw’s article summarises some of the recent developments – in Parliament, the press and at a regulatory level – and gives advice to employers looking to eliminate this kind of behaviour, and at the same time reduce the risk of legal claims.
Running the Employment Tribunal system, with 33 hearing centres and tens of thousands of judgments per year, is expensive. Governments have long sought to limit the cost of running the system by, amongst other things, encouraging the parties to resolve their disputes without the need for a full hearing. There are a number of methods of encouragement, some mandatory like the requirement to...
Music industry executive Larry Jackson – who singlehandedly helped revive Kanye West’s career – is asking a judge to unmask an anonymous individual he claims is waging 'reputational warfare' agai...