Diversity Faculty
Our Diversity Faculty comprises legal expertise and in-house business advisors to provide clients with a full service offering as part of their diversity journey and development of their diversity strategy and cultural values
Listen to our Diversity Faculty Podcast Series on key diversity and inclusion topics for businesses, including pipeline, promotion and retention, using quotas, targets and the risks of positive discrimination, training: what’s effective and what’s not, and developing your diversity strategy and policy.
27 janvier 2022
In a recent article published by Employee Benefits, Laurie Ollivent, Senior Associate in the Employment & Incentives team, looks at how Covid-19 is reshaping gender and diversity reporting.
6 décembre 2021
In a recent article published by Lexology GTDT Practice Guide, Simon Kerr-Davis, Counsel in the Employment & Incentives team, looks at the situation where employees find themselves in conflict with each other, or with their employer, as a result of the tension between different protected characteristics in the diversity space.
2 septembre 2021
The last decade has seen an unrelenting focus on culture within financial services firms. Focus has now shifted to the role diversity and inclusion (D&I) play as an integral part of a healthy culture. As the regulators consider how to monitor and supervise firms in these areas, there is now a regulatory imperative for firms to manage and promote D&I effectively.
2 septembre 2021
Workplace activism isn’t a new concept, but one which has been amplified in recent times by social movements and the circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is increasingly becoming a defining feature of the workplace. With a heightened awareness of workplace rights, along with changes in technologies, social media and workplace communication channels, employees can become activists within their workplaces very quickly.
12 août 2021
Menopausal women are the fastest growing working demographic in the UK, according to a recent Government report . Yet support for the potentially debilitating symptoms of the menopause is absent from many workplaces.
mardi 6 juillet 2021, 14:30 to 15:30 GMT
Location: Global
Many organisations are grappling with how to turn their D&I ambitions into reality. Particularly for in-house legal teams, it can be a challenge to take the company’s overall D&I vision and embed it locally. In this session, we discuss how you can develop a D&I strategy for your own team, and ideas for building engagement from the top down as well as through grass-roots networks, to bring your D&I plans to life.
This webinar will be of general interest.
8 juillet 2021
Business groups have called on the Government to implement a mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting obligation.
6 juillet 2021
15 mars 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.
12 janvier 2021
The complex nature of gender identity, and what it means to transition, can make it a difficult topic for employers to approach.
19 juin 2020
We previously told you in October 2018 that the UK government was consulting on mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting. That consultation ended on 11 January 2019. Since then, there have been no updates from the government on the outcome of the consultation.
10 mars 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?
3 février 2020
As Veganuary comes to a close, we reflect on the Employment Tribunal’s high profile ruling that ethical veganism is a “philosophical belief” and qualifies for protection from discrimination under the Equality Act.
13 septembre 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.
16 septembre 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.
11 septembre 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?
9 septembre 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.
16 janvier 2019
In December 2018, Christopher Woolard (the FCA’s Executive Director of Strategy and Competition) commented that a firm’s approach to diversity and inclusion can tell us a lot about its culture.
19 novembre 2018
Disappointing is perhaps how best to describe the contents of the 2018 Hampton-Alexander Review, which reports on female representation on company boards and executive pipeline.
21 janvier 2019
Linklaters has recently completed the pilot of its reverse mentoring scheme. Nick Marshall, a Managing Associate in the Employment team, talks about the benefits to business of reverse mentoring, and his experiences of mentoring a member of Linklaters’ Partnership Board as part of the pilot.
