When Haseena Enu joined Fragomen, Del Rey, Bern-sen & Loewy over 20 years ago, women—it seemed—were everywhere. "There were women on the executive committee, there were plenty of women partners in the office where I started working, [and] there were ...
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Just Employment Law becomes Jags main sponsor
Partick Thistle Football Club has announced that Just Employment Law will be the club’s main sponsor for the 2017/18 season. Just Employment Law has long been a commercial partner of the club and, having first become involved in February 2012, most ...
Cardiff University : Employment law reform needed to fix social care in the UK
New research by a Cardiff University academic has offered an innovative and timely insight into the UK's crisis of social care. In her book, Stories of care: A labour of law. Gender and class at work, Dr Lydia Hayes of the University's School of Law and ...
Legal analysis: Brexit, the general election and changes to employment law proposed by the three main parties
Matthew Clayton, partner at Willans LLP solicitors, analyses the main parties’ manifesto commitments regarding employment law (pictured below). Employment law is a subject which has featured surprising highly in this year’s election campaign, and of ...
China Employment Law: Eight Tips for Achieving Bliss
If you take the time to understand and act according to China’s key employment laws, you can prevent many of the problems foreign employers typically face in China. Investing the time and money up-front is much less expensive than the alternative.
Employment law: What’s fair and what’s fact
Employees are having their pay cheques docked following a significant rise in shoplifting. But what are the rules and regulations surrounding breaches of employment law in New Zealand? A Northland petrol station has been forced to pay out $28,500 for ...
Nassim: Employment First law a positive step forward for Indiana
Employment First, a policy and philosophy advocating for pay above minimum wage and integrated community employment for youth with disabilities who are transitioning to adulthood, was passed into law last week in Indiana. I think Indiana has needed a law ...
Employers win flexibility in California Supreme Court ruling on “right to rest” employment law case
The California Supreme Court has ruled on an employment law case regarding the state's "day of rest" statute, which entitles employees to one day’s rest in seven and prohibits employers to "cause" workers to work more than six in seven days. In its ...
Why Do Law Schools Ignore Solo And Small Law Firms As A Source Of Summer Employment For Students?
In another week or two, law school will be out for the summer, and rising first- and second-year students will disperse to summer jobs ranging from the brass-ring, highly paid summer associate positions at AmLaw 100 firms to equally prestigious but unpaid ...
Traditional UK Employment Law Means Gig Economy Could Be Hard Work for Private Equity
Companies that operate in the “gig economy”, using a largely self-employed workforce, have enjoyed enormous growth in recent years but in the UK, these companies have come into conflict with long-established UK employment law. In our view, current laws ...