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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
3 February 2020
Fair redundancies - Top 10 tips for employers: Part 1 - Individual Consultation
With the full economic impact of Brexit yet to be determined, employers continue to operate in uncertain times. Some employers will find that market conditions leave them little choice but to carry out redundancies. However, there will inevitably be occasions where redundancies cannot be avoided.
27 January 2020
Partner expulsion case offers lessons to LLP firms and their partners
Just before Christmas, the High Court ruled on a dispute regarding the expulsion of a partner from one of the Big Five under the firm’s 2017 LLP Agreement (LLPA).
22 January 2020
Calling out discrimination in banking bonuses
As bonus payout season approaches, what does a successful female banker, trader, analyst or even compliance officer do who fears they have been paid less than their male counterparts?
20 December 2019
Mind the (Ethnicity Pay) Gap
As pay gaps go, most of us have heard plenty about the shocking gender pay gap which still exists today. It has dominated the news and we have seen positive steps to address it by the way of compulsory gender pay gap reporting. But what about the ethnicity pay gaps (EPGs)?
20 December 2019
Fixing the broken rung – action to improve gender balance
Last month’s Hampton-Alexander Review concerning the improvement of gender balance in FTSE leadership review reports positive, if rather slowly moving, trends but indicates there is much work still to be done. In particular at the very top of organisations (there is a distinct lack of female CEOs) and ensure businesses have strong pipelines of talent to enable progress to continue. The narrative seems to be less about the glass ceiling and more about, in the words of the also recently published McKinsey and Company report “Women in the Workplace 2019”, a need to “fix the broken rung”.
