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Workplace equality

  • DWF launches menopause policy in bid to tackle legal sector’s staffing crisis

    Battle for talent

    DWF has launched a new firm-wide policy to support women going through the menopause, as it seeks to boost its retainment of staff in the face of an exodus of older women from the UK’s workforce. The UK law firm’s policy seeks to support DWF employees going through the menopause with a view to raising [...]

  • Young workers see class background as barrier to career success

    Work

    Young workers from lower socio-economic backgrounds continue to see class as a barrier to success, according to new research from accounting firm BDO. A third of young people from lower socio-economic backgrounds believe a lack of networks in their chosen fields could have a negative effect on their careers, BDO’s poll of 1,000 workers shows. [...]

  • Emily Pedersen on the Aramco Team Series and her dream of achieving pay parity in golf

    Interview

    Emily Pedersen discusses the growth of women’s golf, her hope of seeing prize money parity in the sport in the near future, and the Aramco Team Series. Emily Pedersen has been one of the shining lights of European golf in recent years and the Dane is optimistic that the future looks bright both for her [...]

  • The Women’s Euros smashed records. Now we need more women on football club boards

    August 2, 2022

    Women’s Euro 2022 broke new records for football and it’s clear that brands are now recognising the commercial value of the women’s game.  Spurred on by rising professionalism, for the first time ever, every one of the top-20 revenue generating clubs in world football now has a women’s team. Off the pitch though, it’s a [...]

  • Manufacturing Technology Centre rolls out four day week after trial boosts productivity

    July 4, 2022

    Coventry-based firm the Manufacturing Technology Centre has rolled out a four day working week for staff after a trial period was found to have boosted productivity. The organisation, which aims to build technologies developed in academia, said that after conducting a two-year trial of flexible working with more than 600 of its staff, it would [...]

  • Employers could be sued if they cut remote and hybrid workers salaries, lawyers say

    June 28, 2022

    Employers giving pay cuts to remote and hybrid workers could face discrimination lawsuits, employment lawyers have said. Companies that pay higher salaries to workers who come into the office risk being subject to sexual discrimination lawsuits, due to the fact women are more likely to work from home than men, lawyers told City A.M. Fiona [...]

  • Let lawyers take holidays without having to work, Mayer Brown managing partner says

    June 13, 2022

    Mayer Brown’s UK managing partner has told partners in the law firm not to disturb associates on their holidays – apart from in emergencies. In an internal memo seen by The Lawyer, Dominic Griffiths, the highest-ranking partner at Mayer Brown’s London office, told the law firm’s senior lawyers not to interrupt younger lawyers’ holidays, as [...]

  • Google settles lawsuit for $118m over claims it ‘systematically’ underpaid female employees

    June 13, 2022

    Google has agreed to pay $118m (£96m) to settle a class-action lawsuit brought forward by four of its former employees over claims the tech giant “systemically” underpaid 15,500 of its female employees. The Silicon Valley firm will also bring in an independent labour economist to analyse its pay practices to ensure female workers are not [...]

  • Closing the gap: gender lens investing and the future of finance

    May 31, 2022  |  City Talk

    Public perception of gender equality issues runs in a repetitive cycle. We’ve all seen it. A scandal breaks out, or a study discovers yet another damaging disparity. Think pieces are written, hands are wrung, and companies promise to do better. Then the public’s attention moves on until another cycle starts. Actual change comes very slowly, [...]

  • Stretched employees face unmanageable workloads due to staff shortages, new survey show

    April 21, 2022

    Almost two-fifths (38 per cent) of workers have said they are struggling to deal with “unmanageable” workloads, as a result of staff shortages, according to a survey from Totaljobs. At the same time, almost half (46 per cent) would like to see their companies hire more workers to make their workloads more manageable, while another [...]

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