The Agenda

This week on Work and Class, we're going behind the scenes of our school mentoring scheme. We look at why it can make a lasting difference for young people from less advantaged backgrounds, and how your organisation can build one of its own.

Discrimination law on the island of Ireland is adapting to an evolving society, and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have taken strikingly different routes, especially on harassment. In this episode, Jacqueline, Paul and Aisling compare the two regimes, from Ireland’s new ban on NDAs to uncapped compensation in NI. For cross-border employers, a policy on paper is no longer enough. Miss...

Geraint Lloyd-Taylor and Brinsley Dresden are back with a packed update. The new DMCCA subscription rules have been pulled forward to January 2027, so who is caught and what should you do now? Plus, what the ASA’s first wave of less healthy food rulings (including M&M’s, On the Beach and McCain) tells advertisers, and why the EU’s Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition directive reaches...

In this episode, Sally and David discuss what we’ve learnt from the Next EAT equal pay appeal decision and the preparation needed for new Employment Tribunal time limits from 1 October 2026.  

Cross-border working on the island of Ireland is full of hidden pitfalls for employers. In this episode, Ciara and Síobhra explore the compliance traps that catch businesses out, from criminal liability for failing to meet NI’s fair employment monitoring obligations, to the EU Pay Transparency Directive and costly tax and payroll mistakes when staff work from home across the border. With remote an...

In this episode, George Hannah is joined at the (virtual) fireplace by Abigail Wise, Partner at Lewis Silkin, for an honest chat about what it really takes to build a career in law when you don't come from a traditional background, and don’t take a traditional route into law. Abigail shares her personal journey, from her beginnings as a secretary, to early career hurdles, and ultimately to pa...

This discussion called Check Your Privilege was recorded live at our 2026 Managing and International Workforce Conference. In this session, Carla Watling's joined by Rebecca McAlees, Senior Global Employment Counsel at Unilever, and Jill Bagler from Epstein, Becker and Green to explore legal professional privilege across borders. They unpack how privilege rules differ between the UK, the US a...

This Inside APAC session was recorded live at the 2026 Managing and International Workforce Conference. In this session, Caterine Leung, Matthew Durham, and Desmond Wee take us on a rapid-fire tour of employment law developments across the Asia-Pacific region. From AI governance and sweeping labour reforms from India, Indonesia, and Japan, to tightening discrimination laws, evolving data privacy r...

This Employment Law Across the Globe session, recorded live at our 2026 Managing and International Workforce Conference. In this session, Sean Dempsey, Colin Leckey, Hannah Price, and Sophie Maes deliver their annual roundup of global employment law developments. They cover an enormous range of topics from the EU Pay Transparency Directive and diverging approaches to DEI, to workplace AI regulatio...

This is from our Should AI Stay or Should AI Go session, recorded live at our 2026 Managing and International Workforce Conference. In this session, David Regan, Joe DeFonseca from our very own privacy team, Sam Howarth from Slalom and Marco Sederi from Toffoletto in Italy dug into the legal and practical challenges of AI in the workplace.

In this episode, Geraint Lloyd-Taylor and Jen Dinmore discuss the High Court's judgment CMA’s case against Emma Sleep, in an important ruling dealing with discount claims (so called ‘reference pricing’). The case centers on the CMA's attempt to impose a strict 1:2 ratio requirement, under which a retailer could only sell two mattresses at a discounted price for every one sold at the high...

This week on Work and Class , we're talking about accent bias - the subtle form of prejudice that shapes how people are perceived at work, often without anyone consciously admitting it.   Accent bias is everywhere. It affects recruitment, career progression, confidence, and even the roles people feel they can aspire to. Yet it rarely gets the attention it deserves.   In this episode, we are j...

How did Greece implement the EU Pay Transparency Directive in just 33 days? In this episode of Pay Attention , Tom Heys and David Lorimer and joined by Katerina Papastergiou from Kremalis to explore one of the fastest transpositions of the Directive anywhere in Europe. They unpack the journey from consultation to final law, examine the key changes made along the way, and explain what employers nee...

This week, Pay Attention heads to Northern Ireland. Although the UK left the EU, Northern Ireland occupies a unique legal and constitutional position, raising an unexpectedly tricky question: does the Pay Transparency Directive apply there? Northern Ireland presents perhaps the biggest legal puzzle of the Pay Transparency Directive. Employment law is devolved. The UK has left the EU. But Article 2...

Geraint Lloyd-Taylor and Brinsley Dresden are back with a bumper mid-year-round-up of the biggest advertising and marketing law developments of 2026 so far. Fresh from Cannes Lions, they dive into the CMA’s new guidance on agentic AI, the incoming social media ban for under-16s, ASA procedural shake-ups, cosmetics “clinically proven” claims crackdowns, and the CMA’s muscular new enforcement of pri...

In this special episode on privilege, Carla Watling and Sohrab Daneshku explore the High Court decision in Aabar v Glencore and what it means for legal advice privilege, including when protection may extend to internal communications within a client group or documents created by a group member, even where no lawyer is involved.  

In this episode of our international privacy podcast series, we welcome Vanessa Riberio , Partner at Gusmão & Labrunie, to discuss the practical implications of Brazilian data protection law for UK and EU businesses looking to expand into one of Latin America's most exciting digital markets.   We cover the LGPD and its key similarities and differences compared to the GDPR, the EU-Brazil m...

In this episode of the Consumer Law Podcast, Jen Dinmore and Alex Meloy from Lewis Silkin's regulatory team break down the four key areas businesses need to prepare for: enhanced pre-contract information requirements, reminder notices, simplified cancellation processes, and extended cooling-off rights on renewal. They discuss the government's latest consultation response, including the c...

Slovakia is one of just four EU Member States to implement the Pay Transparency Directive on time. But that doesn't mean all the answers are clear. In this episode of Pay Attention, Tom Heys and David Lorimer are joined by Dušan Nitschneider to unpack Slovakia's new legislation, including a right to pay information that's both live and not quite live, the race to build compliant pay...

Our NI AI survey with MCS Group found that 42% of respondents said their biggest barrier to AI adoption was identifying the right use cases. In this episode, Emma Grossmith and Katie Moon walk through a practical framework for finding, assessing, and prioritising AI use cases, covering discovery sessions, the three buckets where use cases cluster, and the four key metrics -readiness, impact, risk,...

In this episode, Lucy and Sally discuss the government’s recent NDA consultation and two EAT decisions on protected conversations and offer letters. 

A first for Pay Attention , our Pay Transparency Directive podcast: a sequel. Because apparently the first serving of Italy and the Pay Transparency Directive wasn’t quite satiating enough.  Tom Heys and David Lorimer are delighted to once again be joined by Ornella Patané to unpack Italy’s latest draft legislation – where salary definitions are debated like ragù recipes, CCNL classifications simm...

Recorded live at last year’s Managing an International Workforce conference, our speakers unpacked how organisations can counter international competitive risks, sharing practical strategies and perspectives from jurisdictions across the globe.

Geraint Lloyd-Taylor and Jen Dinmore review the CMA’s first year of consumer law enforcement under its enhanced powers. They cover the eight cases opened in November 2025 on drip pricing, countdown timers and automatic opt-ins, the first fine (spoiler alert: £4.2m!) for hidden booking fees, the Eurocar Parks penalty for non-compliance with an information notice, Adobe’s unfair cancellation fees in...

Our Beyond Borders podcast series is designed to help you manage your international workforce and navigate the quirks of international employment law. In this episode, we are joined by US employment law experts David Garland and Shira Blank to demystify the realities of employing staff in the United States. They explore why “at‑will” employment is only part of the picture, the challenges of simult...