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Diversty Faculty
Linklaters Diversity Faculty offers a full-service solution for your Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) priorities and objectives. Bringing together experts from our Legal, D&I, HR, Talent Management, Learning & Development and Social Impact teams, our Faculty provides you with the full suite of services to help you evolve your D&I strategy and create a workplace culture that reflects your organisation’s core values.
Employment and Incentives
Our pre-eminent Employment & Incentives practice is one of the strongest and most innovative players in the global market, advising financial services firms on their most challenging, complex and high-profile people-related issues. Our practice comprises dedicated experts on employment, incentives and remuneration issues respectively. We believe that few, if any, other law firms can provide this type of balanced practice and level of expertise.
Risk Advisory client service
Financial regulation is complex - the risks of getting it wrong can be damaging for a firm’s business and reputation. Proactively managing legal and regulatory risk is critical.
As part of our leading financial regulatory practice Linklaters’ Risk Advisory specialists offer clients rigorous analysis combined with deep understanding of the regulatory compliance risks financial institutions face in practice. We work with our clients to determine “what good looks like” in terms of the practical arrangements they have in place to deliver regulatory compliance.
Environment, Social & Governance
ESG in the broadest sense covers environmental, social and governance issues but consensus on details of the meaning can vary and public perceptions are changing rapidly. Our dedicated ESG team has a robust understanding of the regulatory and policy drivers of the market and experience across a wide range of sectors. Visit our ESG web page for more information.
The Ethnicity Pay Gap Matters
Business groups have called on the Government to implement a mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting obligation.
Culture, Governance and Accountability
UK regulators continue to focus on culture as a driver for potential harm. From our work with clients we see first-hand the extent of regulatory scrutiny on how firms promote a positive culture and how their governance structures supports this.
We understand what culture is and why it matters. We have identified seven themes that are central to effective engagement with the regulators for firms of all types.
Culture: What does it mean for businesses?
We have been working with Crafty Counsel to produce a series of six bite-sized videos, each aimed at exploring what culture is and why it matters through sharing what we have seen in legal practice.
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Topical commentary by leading employment and incentives lawyers on key legal issues impacting employers and firms in today's rapidly evolving markets.
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A chain reaction: the link between diversity and remuneration in financial services
25 noviembre 2021
The UK financial services regulators are increasingly focussed on the role diversity and inclusion plays in supporting better decision-making, better outcomes for firms and customers, and enhanced risk management. One key question being asked by regulators is whether linking remuneration to diversity and inclusion metrics as part of non-financial performance assessment could be an effective way to drive progress.
Non-financial misconduct and whistleblowing: the UK regulators' D&I discussion paper (podcast)
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Non-financial misconduct and whistleblowing: the Frensham decision - clarity from the Upper Tribunal
7 octubre 2021
In this podcast episode we discuss the Upper Tribunal's Frensham decision and the important guidance it provides on when non-financial misconduct involving a lack of personal integrity can impact on an individual's fitness and propriety to perform a financial services role.
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The Menopause Revolution – the growing call for more awareness and support for menopause in the workplace
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Strength in diversity – representation and inclusion as drivers of good culture
9 julio 2021
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The Ethnicity Pay Gap Matters
8 julio 2021
Business groups have called on the Government to implement a mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting obligation.
Spotlight on diversity and inclusion in a time of crisis
6 julio 2021
At a time when many businesses are facing the worst trading environment in living memory and are facing financial threats on an unprecedented scale, you might reasonably assume that social and cultural concerns would slip down the agenda, eclipsed by a simple focus on financial health. So why is it that in this incredibly challenging year, issues of culture, and in particular diversity and inclusion have become such a key focus for business? And is the progress in this field established, sustainable and long term, or are these developments purely reactive and short term?
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1 julio 2021
Having recently returned to work after maternity leave, I’ve found the phrase 'going back to work' to be misleading and I believe the same can be said when using the phrase for other types of long-term absence. It suggests the employee is going back to the same job (not always the case), in the same environment (often not the case - especially at the moment), and in the same personal circumstances as before (rarely the case).
Going 'back' is not the right way to look at it. Then again, it isn't starting afresh either. Returners want to re-enter the workplace with the same level of goodwill and respect they held when they left.
So why is it important how we see a return to work? And how can employers better support employees on their return after long periods of absence?
The childcare disparity – the EAT holds that it still exists
28 junio 2021
Tribunals do not require evidence in indirect sex discrimination claims that the childcare burden falls disproportionately on women, the EAT held in Dobson v North Cumbria NHS Trust.
Is it time for reform of parents’ workplace rights?
30 abril 2021
Coronavirus has had a disproportionate economic impact on women. Women, and particularly women of colour, were more likely to be employed in sectors closed by the pandemic (such as retail and hospitability), less likely to receive a discretionary top-up to furlough pay and devoted significantly more hours to childcare than men. A new campaign by Maternity Action calls for across-the-board reform of parents’ rights in the workplace.
The highs and lows of women in the workplace
15 marzo 2021
The final report of the Hampton-Alexander review was published at the end of last month. Progress has been significant, the number of female directors in FTSE 100 companies increased by 50% in the last five years.
Drafting Inclusive Transgender Policies
12 enero 2021
The complex nature of gender identity, and what it means to transition, can make it a difficult topic for employers to approach.
Gender pay gap and furloughed employees
17 diciembre 2020
Recently published government guidance confirms how employers should deal with furloughed employees in their gender pay gap reports. We take a closer look and consider the wider impact.
Are the gender reassignment provisions of the Equality Act 2010 fit for purpose?
15 diciembre 2020
A recent tribunal decision looks closely at the scope of workplace protections for trans people. Who is protected against gender reassignment discrimination and what are the lessons for employers?
The Culture Series: Measuring and Monitoring Culture Change
10 marzo 2020
Purpose, culture and values have become a key focus for business strategy over the last few years. However, these issues can be seen as “soft” or as difficult to define and can be extremely difficult to meaningfully separate, identify and measure. How can companies effectively measure and manage progress in achieving their chosen corporate culture?
The Diversity Series: Let’s talk (and not whisper) about mental health...
16 septiembre 2019
Mental health and wellbeing at work is an important strand of diversity, but one that does not always receive as much focus as other areas.
The Diversity Series: menopause in the workplace – the case for more support
13 septiembre 2019
According to the ONS, menopausal women are the fastest growing working demographic in the UK. Yet support for the debilitating symptoms of the menopause is absent from many workplaces.
The Diversity Series: Social mobility: the direction of travel
11 septiembre 2019
Socio-economic status is increasingly being recognised as a barrier to success in the workplace. Is it time for a change in the law?
The Diversity Series: One for the Dads...
9 septiembre 2019
New fathers in the workplace represent a working group whose family-friendly rights have not necessarily kept up with the pace of societal change.
The Diversity Series: Linklaters Diversity Week
5 septiembre 2019
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