Talking Work

As life expectancy increases, governments are starting to redesign pensions for the future. So, will people need to work for longer and will governments require employers to provide pensions for employees? In this episode, Corine Hoekstra, senior associate at our Dutch pensions firm Blom Veugelers Zuiderman Advocaten, joins us to talk about pensions law reform an...

What are the biggest misconceptions lawyers have about legal tech? What key trends are we seeing right now? Martin Kammandel, legal tech engineer at Kliemt. HR, breaks down these questions and talks about some of the projects his team has been working on. Talking Work is a podcast by Ius Laboris, the leading legal alliance in employment law - www.iuslaboris.com

As discussed previously in this podcast, there is an ongoing debate around the world as to whether gig workers should be classified as employees or self-employed. Recently, in Australia, the court in a case involving Deliveroo held that delivery workers class as employees. We invited Claire Brattey, special counsel at Corrs Chambers Westgarth, to tell us more about this an...

Remote working is here to stay but what happens if an employee wants to work from abroad? It turns out this raises all sorts of questions about immigration, employment law in the new country, health & safety, social security, tax and other compliance issues. We invited Sophie Maes, partner of Claeys & Engels to talk to us about all of these and more. Our Working from Abroad survey is now l...

We invited Pascal Lagoutte, partner in our French firm, CAPSTAN Avocats, and chairman of the Ius Laboris alliance, to talk to us about managing operations in France from an HR perspective. We discuss what to look out for in French employment law, including some things that foreign companies might find surprising about running a business in France. Pascal also gives us...

When lockdowns started happening in different countries around the world last year, remote working was treated as an emergency measure. But now employers are having to work out how to set it up for the longer term – and that raises a whole raft of issues that need proper thought, such as health and safety, mental wellbeing, the right for employees disconnect, cybersecurity, how to monitor time spe...

After one year of transformation of the workplace under COVID-19, this is a very different Labour Day and atypical work patterns are in the spotlight. In this episode, we take a look at the gig economy, with Román Gil, partner at our Spanish law firm Sagardoy Abogados. Román explains the difference between employees and independent contractors and why this matters, and looks at what...

How are lawyers embracing new ways of thinking and working? And how is innovation improving the way legal services are delivered? Fatima Hussain, an experienced in-house counsel in the automotive sector in Germany, and Sam Everatt, Director of Ius Laboris, talk about what innovation can look like for in-house legal teams. Talking Work is a podcast by Ius Laboris, the leading legal alliance in empl...

Israel has been quicker than any other country in the world to vaccinate its population and this has taken Israelis from lockdown to the road to freedom in just a few weeks. We caught up with Orly Gerbi , partner in our Israeli firm Herzog Fox & Neeman , to tell us how things are changing in Israel: whether people are going back to the office yet; whether employers are asking for proof of vacc...

There are many ways in which the new Biden Administration is making waves and employment law is definitely among them. So we caught up with Aaron Zandy , attorney in our US law firm FordHarrison for a heads-up on what’s happening now, what the new Administration would like to happen and how likely it is they will fulfil their ambitions. Talking Work is a podcast by Ius Laboris, the leading legal a...

With the shock waves of the coronavirus pandemic likely to fracture economies and livelihoods for some time to come, will workers expect continued help from the state and will this change our expectations about the role of governments? We ask James Davies, partner at our UK firm, Lewis Silkin , for his views. You can read more about what James has written on this topic here . You can also download...

To chime with International Women’s Day on 8 March, we have taken a look at gender issues in the workplace, with Denmark as our focus. We invited Rikke Falk Dambo , a partner in our Danish firm, Norrbom Vinding , to talk to us about the debate currently raging over #metoo, along with some interesting initiatives to encourage equality in a way that integrates parental and caring duties and emb...

To chime with the launch of our flagship publication “The Word 2021: Forces for Change”, we prepared some special podcasts on key themes related to the future of work. We invited Kathryn Weaver, partner in Lewis Silkin Hong Kong, to discuss how mental health is protected in APAC workplaces and compare to different countries around the world. Kathryn also gives tips on what employers can do to...

Pairing with the launch of our flagship publication “The Word: Forces for Change”, we prepared some special episodes on key themes related to the future of work. To start with, we invited Chris Engels, former chair of our alliance and founding partner of Claeys & Engels, Ius Laboris Belgium, to have a chat about his article in The Word 2021: the transformation of the role of the unions du...

With the EU Whistleblowers Directive coming into force at the end of 2021, investigations are becoming of more concern of employers. Janusz Tomczak, partner at our Polish member Raczkowski and chair of our new Expert Group on Internal Investigations, provides details of the Directive and its likely impact on employers. He also explains how to conduct an internal investigation while safeguarding em...

COVID-19 continues to pose new questions for employers, and some of those relate to testing, vaccination, health and safety for longer-term, remote working and work-life balance. Stefano de Luca Tamajo, partner at our Italian firm Toffoletto de Luca Tamajo, and chair of our expert group on health & safety, joins us to talk about all those topics and more. Download 'COVID-19: How and where to w...

The end of the Brexit transition period has brought with it many changes to the immigration rules that operate between the UK and the EU. We invited Sophie Maes, partner at our Belgian firm Claeys & Engels, and Naomi Hanrahan-Soar, managing associate at the UK firm Lewis Silkin, to tell us about the changes from both sides of the channel. For more Brexit-related information, keep an eye o...

Executive pay is coming under increasing pressure as a result of COVID-19 and so we have recently conducted some research covering 15 countries into the rules and norms around it. Jan Van Gysegem, partner at our Belgian firm Claeys & Engels joins us today to talk us through the results. Check out our research on Executive Pay by accessing this link . If you would like to contact Jan Van Gysege...

This year has begun with a bang in the UK, with the country having left the European Union on 31 December 2020. But what are the implications for UK employment law? Will it track EU law or diverge, morphing into a new and different post-Brexit regime? James Davies, partner at our UK firm Lewis Silkin, lets us have his views. For more Brexit-related information, keep an eye on our Brexit page and d...

Variable pay plans are increasingly popular worldwide as ways of attracting and retaining talent. So today we look at some of the key things to think about when setting one up -including trickier aspects, such as whether employers can ‘clawback’ pay if an employee fails to deliver. Emanuela Nespoli, partner of our Italian member firm, Toffoletto de Luca Tamajo tells us all about it. Check out Eman...

The transfer of personal data across national borders is crucial for the functioning of many businesses. In this episode, we interview Inger Verhelst, of Belgian firm Claeys & Engels and explore the implications of the recent EU data privacy case that invalidated the so-called 'Privacy Shield' by which personal data used to be sent from Europe to the US. We also look at what should h...

In this episode, we talk about a proposal for a new law in Germany to support 'mobile working' - in other words, allowing employees to work from home or anywhere else. We speak to Alexander Ulrich, partner in our German firm, Kliemt HR Lawyers, about how the law might operate and what the challenges and pitfalls could be. If you want to contact Alexander Ulrich, click here to see his details. Talk...

Trump and Biden are politically poles apart and so it is a fair assumption that changes to employment law will be made by the new Biden administration. But what specifically might they do? We invited Maria Tavano , attorney in our US member firm FordHarrison, to tell us what sort of changes she anticipates over the coming months. Talking Work is a podcast by Ius Laboris, the leading lega...

As eliminating racial inequality in the workplace becomes a goal for more and more forward-thinking companies, we take a detailed look at the issue of 'positive discrimination' in this podcast. We talk to José Carlos Wahle, partner in our member in Brazil Veirano Advogados about a Brazilian company that recently offered traineeships only to black applicants and is now being prosecuted for unlawful...

In this episode, we interviewed Frank Steinicke, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Hamburg, to find out how immersive technology will affect how we work now and in the future – and most importantly – how to prepare for this new reality.  Frank will speak more about the impact of AI and virtual reality in the workplace at our Legal HR Summit on the 4-5 November. Regi...