5 May 2020
Partners' future under spotlight during crisis
In a startling opening to a recent Newsnight, presenter Emily Maitlis began with the words “They tell us Coronavirus is a great leveller. It’s not. It's much harder if you’re poor."
30 April 2020
How can partners prepare for a post COVID-19 firm cull?
Partners need to do what they would advise their own clients to do: be well prepared.
17 April 2020
Taking a pay cut - is it the right thing to do?
The moral arguments may well still apply but where salaries are less stellar, there may be more for an individual to lose on a relative basis and thornier issues to weigh on a practical level.
15 April 2020
Legal rights if you're made to work in the office during COVID-19
While plenty of people in all sectors are now working from home, designated key workers in the financial services industry are still being forced to go to work.
9 April 2020
Business Plan 2020-21: FCA remains vigilant to potential misconduct
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has this week published its annual Business Plan. Unsurprisingly, the emergence of COVID-19 has significantly impacted the organisation’s ability to set out its strategic focus for the next three years. While the Plan sets out the areas of priority on which it intends to focus in this period, it recognises that it may be months before the FCA is able to focus fully on the activities set out in the Plan and that the issues to be addressed may change significantly over the coming months.
