Here are a couple more of the questions – and our answers, following our recent webinar on Managing Long-term Sickness Absence. Today we address the following:… Continue Reading
At the end of our What Next webinar this week I announced boldly that either we had had no questions from the floor or I had done something hideous to the IT and lost them. With depressing predictability it was the latter, sorry. In fact we got a good score of questions across a wide range … Continue Reading
As nearly the last of our answers to queries raised at our Handling Grievances Webinar last month, here are two very important questions about how far HR can or should act as a neutral in the resolution of an employee grievance. 10. Can you train an HR person to be a qualified mediator rather than … Continue Reading
I love this next question from our webinar last month. It goes right to the heart of what a grievance is about – obtaining redress where due – and raises some very interesting issues as to the extent of the employee’s own obligations to help in that process. 8. If someone refuses a mediation to … Continue Reading
Over 700 people signed up to our Handling Grievances webinar last week, reinforcing our view that the return to the workplace (RTW) process is going to be a fertile breeding ground for such complaints by employees, some around new working conditions, some alleging health and safety failures and others just to vent minor unhappinesses and … Continue Reading
As part of Squire Patton Boggs’ ongoing focus on COVID-19 pandemic challenges and opportunities, on November 5, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern, Laura Lawless of the firms’ Labor & Employment Practice Group will host an hour-long discussion aimed at healthcare employers that will focus on some of the key issues that are front and center … Continue Reading
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), commonly known as the “coronavirus,” is now impacting employers all across the US. Every organization should have a plan of action in place concerning the coronavirus as the threat of an outbreak at your workplace cannot be ignored. Please join us for a live webinar on Monday, March 16, 2020 … Continue Reading
Not often that we make reference in this blog to other organisations’ events, but here is one which is definitely worth talking about, and not just because we are part of it.… Continue Reading
Squire Patton Boggs presents a webinar to provide an overview of the past year’s most significant labor and employment decisions and emerging areas of the law in the United States. On 5 December 2018 at 4 p.m. GMT (5 p.m. CET, 11 a.m. EST, 8 a.m. PST) Jill Kirila, our US Labor & Employment Practice … Continue Reading
Squire Patton Boggs presents a webinar to discuss current hot employment law topics in Asia. Asia has, without doubt, some of the most challenging and diverse sets of employment laws in the world. Legal counsel and HR professionals in Asia often hold a remit that cuts across multiple jurisdictions and have the unenviable task of … Continue Reading
Squire Patton Boggs presents a webinar to discuss the latest practical guidance and analysis on the EU Settlement Scheme. The Home Secretary has issued a Statement of Intent relating to the Scheme, which will be rolled out from late 2018. The Statement explains in more detail the criteria and process for EU citizens to obtain … Continue Reading
The National Minimum Wage rates have increased, bringing new risks for employers. Employers may now find themselves breaching the regulations for something as simple as asking employees to provide an item of uniform, and the penalties for non-compliance can be severe. On 25 June 2018, National Minimum Wage lawyer James Pike will be hosting this … Continue Reading
Next month we are presenting a webinar to discuss the important employment reforms that are being phased in from 1 January 2018 and which will affect all employers located in Belgium. Intended to boost job creation, the reforms are on the back of the 2017 measures giving increased flexibility in working time. On 16 May … Continue Reading
Most successful businesses want to grow but what do they mean? Greater size and/or number of sites, higher output, income and/or profit, larger headcount or a more prominent media profile? Many see internal investment as the panacea to growth but that also means different things to different businesses – for manufacturing businesses, for example, it … Continue Reading
Here we are, September already. How did that happen? Only two certainties lay ahead – first, that there will be Christmas stuff in the shops by the end of the month and second, that the abolition of Tribunal fees will be turning many employees thoughts to claims they might not have made before. By all … Continue Reading
Squire Patton Boggs presents a webinar to discuss key labour and employment hot topics affecting UK employers. On 28 June 2017 at 4.00 p.m. BST (UK) (5.00 p.m. CEST, 11.00 a.m. EDT, 8.00 a.m. PDT) David Whincup, Annabel Mace and Bryn Doyle will focus on: Business Immigration – An update on recent changes plus the … Continue Reading
Off to a flying start, or what? Not content with hosting the next in our series of international labour and employment law webinars, our new L&E Asia hub partner Julia Yeo will shortly be treading the boards again with a starring role at the Tower Ballroom – but not dancing and, no doubt to her … Continue Reading
In support of a good cause, here is a blatant plug on behalf of the Workplace and Employment sub-group of the Civil Mediation Counsel. We are big fans of mediation in the employment context (see our Insider’s Guide Series). As a result, we are delighted to have been invited to speak again by the CMC … Continue Reading
Squire Patton Boggs presents a webinar to discuss recent changes and trends in the employment landscape in Asia that have or will have a significant impact on the cost of doing business in the region. On 24 May 2017 at 8 a.m. GMT (9 a.m. BST (UK), 10 a.m. CEST, 4 p.m. SGT) Julia Yeo, … Continue Reading
We have partnered with LCP to hold a breakfast briefing for Japanese companies operating in the UK, to help them understand and fulfil their pensions obligations. The briefing will take place on Wednesday 10 May 2017 at LCP’s offices in London, from 8:30 – 10 a.m. This event will be of interest to Japanese nationals … Continue Reading
17 March marks World Sleep Day. According to RAND Europe, a lack of sleep among UK workers is costing the economy up to £40 billion a year (equivalent to almost 2% of GDP). Sleep deprivation leads to a higher mortality risk over the long term, as well as lower productivity levels and increased risk of … Continue Reading
Birmingham Engage for Success will be partnering with Squire Patton Boggs, the CIPD and the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce to host an event this Friday 17 February 2017 on “Increasing Productivity”. This event is specifically designed for board members to share and learn how to close the productivity gap. Ramez Moussa, a Partner in our … Continue Reading
As you may have noticed, today is the fourth annual “Time to Talk” day. The purpose of the Time to Talk day is to seek to break down the stigma of mental health issues and spark conversations, not only to aid recovery but also to help people with their personal and professional relationships and to … Continue Reading
