In 2015, Prime Minister, David Cameron vowed to “end the gender pay gap in a generation”. In April this year, the government set out new rules forcing every company that employs more than 250 people to publish their pay differences by April 2018. This new legislation followed from Iceland, after it was announced that the […]
A specialist employment lawyer has praised a recent judgement at the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) which upheld the decision that UBER drivers are workers and are therefore entitled to increased rights including holiday pay and a national minimum wage. Kate Gardner, a Partner with national law firm Clarke Willmott LLP, says that this type of […]
The number of new job openings for executive managers within the legal profession increased by 54.8% in the year to 31st August 2017, according to the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo). This is despite the fact that overall vacancies within the sector rose by just 1.8% during the same period. Demand for practicing lawyers, […]
Last week, in an opportune turn of events, President Donald Trump's @realdonaldtrump Twitter account was deactivated as a stunt pulled by a disgruntled employee of the social media platform on their last day of work. Leon Deakin, Partner at law firm Coffin Mew, had this to say for Lawyer Monthly: “The revelation that Donald Trump’s Twitter account […]
This month was World Mental Health Day. Here, Richard Martin, former city employment lawyer, discusses how legal firms can address mental health in the workplace. The American Bar Association has recently published a ground-breaking report on the importance of mental health, and awareness of it, among the US legal profession. The report, available here […]
In light of recent celebrity workplace harassment claims, here Karen Plumbley-Jones, Managing Associate (Practice Development Lawyer) at Bond Dickinson LLP, discusses with Lawyer Monthly harassment in the workplace and the responsibilities of employers. This follows two recently published surveys, one carried out by ComRes for BBC Radio 5 on sexual harassment in the workplace and […]
US quarterback and former San Francisco 49ers player Colin Kaepernick is taking legal action against the entirety of the NFL’s team owners on grounds of collusion. According to Mike Freeman of Bleacher Report, Kaepernick has hired an attorney and will claim NFL league team proprietors have colluded to keep him unemployed and out of the […]
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