Insights & News

Tom Heys, Karen Baxter, Anna Bond: Supporting bisexual and transgender employees in their workplace

Press

12 February 2019

Karen Baxter, Tom Heys and Anna Bond have written an article for HR Review discussing a recent survey by Stonewall that found bi and trans inclusivity was significantly low among employers, prompting the charity’s executive director to call for more to be done to tackle this problem in the workplace.

Tom Heys writes for People Management: Why ethnicity pay gap reporting may not give a true picture of diversity

Press

31 January 2019

Tom Heys has written an article for People Management where he explains that the inherent variability of organisations’ workforces could mean that transparency reporting might not be as transparent as we think.

James Davies comments for Het Financieele Dagblad: Discriminatie moet alarmbel doen afgaan

Press

07 January 2019

James Davies has commented in an article which discusses and compares discrimination in the workplace in Britain and the Netherlands.

Richard Miskella comments for The Telegraph: Is this new app the answer to reporting workplace harassment?

Press

21 December 2018

Richard Miskella has commented in an article for The Telegraph which discusses the Government's crack down on misconduct in the workplace with a commitment to draft a new statutory code of practice that will aim to tackle sexual harassment at work.

Joanna Hunt writes for Architects' Journal: How can architecture benefit from the Exceptional Talent visa route?

Press

20 December 2018

In an article for Architects' Journal, Joanna Hunt examines the extension of the Home Office’s Tier 1 category to cover architects wanting to work in the UK.

Richard Miskella comments for HR Magazine on the new government harassment code of practice

Press

18 December 2018

Richard Miskella has commented for HR managzine on the government's announcement that it will work with the EHRC on a new code

Beware sending capped up emails: It could get you fired@@@!!!

Press

17 December 2018

James Davies commented in an article for The Telegraph discussing how capitalised emails are equivalent to shouting at employees in person and can lead to complaints or disciplinary action.

Sam Minshall comments for Sky News, The Telegraph, The Independent and ITV: Olympic cyclist Jess Varnish's sex discrimination case against UK Sport and British Cycling begins

Press

10 December 2018

Sam Minshall has commented in articles for Sky News and The Telegraph which discuss Olympic cyclist Jess Varnish's sex discrimination case against UK Sport and British Cycling.

Sam Minshall comments for Cyclist: Jess Varnish case could lead to ‘wholesale change in the treatment of athletes’

Press

07 December 2018

Sam Minshall has commented in an article for Cyclist which discusses the potential wider implications of the imminent court case for athletes involving track sprinter Jess Varnish, who is arguing her status as an employee rather than self-employed.

Laura Farnsworth comments for The Law Society Gazette

Press

05 December 2018

In this article Laura Farnsworth discusses the benefits of lawyers working part time as well as discussing how Lewis Silkin’s low cost, fixed fee service rockhopper has helped support lawyers who wish to work part time.

Joanna Hunt comments for The Times: Chinese and Indian students driving growth in non-EU net migration

Press

30 November 2018

Joanna Hunt has commented in an article for The Times which discusses growth in non-EU net migration.

Andrew Osborne's comments featured for a range of leading news outlets

Press

22 November 2018

Andrew Osborne's comments on the effect of Brexit on foreign player imports to the Premier League have been featured for ESPN, Mail Online and Bloomberg.

Andrew Osborne comments for Bloomberg: Soccer's Brexit Fight Heats Up as Clubs Resist Curbs on Imports

Press

16 November 2018

Andrew Osborne has commented in an article for Bloomberg which discusses the implications of Brexit on top English football clubs.

Andrew Osborne comments for Inside World Football: FA’s Brexit proposal on foreign player quotas breaks current immigration rules

Press

15 November 2018

Andrew Osborne has commented on an article for Inside World Football which discusses The FA's Brexit proposal on foreign player quotas.

Joanna Hunt writes for Free Movement: How easy is it to buy British citizenship?

Press

02 November 2018

Joanna Hunt has written an article for Free Movement which questions how easy it is to buy British Citizenship.

James Davies comments for LexisNexis: Revealing the race pay gap

Press

26 October 2018

James Davies has taken part in a Q+A for LexisNexis in which he discusses the implications on employers and legal practitioners of the government introducing mandatory ethnicity pay reporting by employers to promote transparency and equality in the workplace.

Richard Miskella writes for The Drum: 'Businessman' injunction: what can and can't be published in press and social media

Press

25 October 2018

Richard Miskella has written an article for The Drum which discusses the recent injunction put in place by a 'leading businessman' against Telegraph Media Group.

Colin Leckey writes for The HR Director: Ethnicity pay equality – gender pay gap-style reporting won’t work

Press

23 October 2018

Colin Leckey has contributed to an article for The HR Director in which he discusses the proposed new law which requests feedback on the sort of information that employers should be required to publish and whether this should follow current gender pay gap reporting rules.

Ellen Temperton speaks to BBC Radio about the ‘always on’ work culture

Press

18 October 2018

In a segment for BBC Business Daily, Ellen Temperton discusses an employee’s right to privacy in relation to work emails outside of normal work hours.

Karen Baxter writes for Accountancy Age: Can you keep a secret?

Press

18 October 2018

In this article for Accountancy Age, Karen Baxter looks at how the role of settlement agreements may have kept abusive behaviour quiet in accountancy firms.