Talking Work

Anti-discrimination law is changing in Australia, with a new positive duty on employers to ensure sex discrimination and harassment are eliminated in their workplaces. Sarah Clarke, partner in our Australian law firm explains what employers need to do to comply.  

If you’d like to contact Sarah Clarke, click ⁠here⁠⁠ ⁠for her details. Our host, Deborah Ishihara, can be found ⁠here⁠.

Talking Work is a podcast by Ius Laboris, the leading legal alliance in employment law - ⁠www.iuslaboris.com

Inflation is on everyone’s minds these days and we’ve been thinking about how it impacts employees, particularly those on minimum wage. Emanuela Nespoli, partner in our Italian law firm and Alexander Ulrich, partner in our Germany law firm, have been discussing the issues.

Discover our Inflation, Wages and the Risk of a Wage-Price Spiral in 2023 report here.

If you’d like to contact Emanuela Nespoli, click here for her details, to contact Alexander Ulrich, click here for his details. Our host, Deborah Ishihara, can be found here.

Talking Work is a podcast by Ius Laboris, the leading legal alliance in employment law - www.iuslaboris.com

ESG has become a key focus for lots of organisations around the world, but those in the EU will now need to keep up with the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, which came into force in January this year. We asked two colleagues from EU countries (Italy and Ireland) to tell us all about it.

Discover New sustainability reporting in the EU here.

If you’d like to contact Joanna Mackey, click here for her details, to contact Diego Paciello, click here for his details. Our host, Deborah Ishihara, can be found here.

Talking Work is a podcast by Ius Laboris, the leading legal alliance in employment law - www.iuslaboris.com

With women in the EU paid only 84% of what men are paid, there is a lot of work for the EU to do on the gender pay gap. Will its recent Pay Transparency Directive do the job? In this episode, two of our lawyers discuss the issues. Have a listen

Discover our Gender Pay Gap Map here.

If you’d like to contact Rebecca Rule, click here for her details, to contact Gemma Taylor, click here for her details. Our host, Deborah Ishihara, can be found here.

Talking Work is a podcast by Ius Laboris, the leading legal alliance in employment law - www.iuslaboris.com

What are the megatrends driving change to the workplace and what might their impact be? James Davies, partner in our UK law firm has been looking into these very questions and we chat to him about his insights in this episode.

Discover more about the 8 drivers of change here.

If you’d like to contact James Davies, click here for his details. Our host, Deborah Ishihara, can be found here.

Talking Work is a podcast by Ius Laboris, the leading legal alliance in employment law - www.iuslaboris.com

Which countries have state mechanisms to index-link wages to inflation and if so, is that a good strategy? How likely is it to cause a wage-price spiral? We recently conducted a survey of 27 countries to find out and in this podcast, Deborah Ishihara interviews economist and staff writer at Ius Laboris, Susanna Gevorgyan, who explains all about it.

Discover more about Inflation, wages and the risk of a wage-price spiral in 2023 here.

If you’d like to contact Susanna Gevorgyan, click here for her details. Our host, Deborah Ishihara, can be found here.

Talking Work is a podcast by Ius Laboris, the leading legal alliance in employment law - www.iuslaboris.com

So many employers across the world are dealing now with crises brought on by inflation, and energy and supply shortages. As we reel from one crisis to the next (pandemic, war, climate change, political instability) it really feels as if we are in ‘permacrisis’. At Ius Laboris, we have just completed a major international project looking at all the permutations of this for employers, including what kinds of temporary measures can be put in place to ease the burden and what the consequences of the current crises might be for the future. In this episode, we get some insights from Sophie Maes, partner at our Belgian firm and leader of our Crisis management project.

Discover our Crises Management series page here.

If you’d like to contact Sophie Maes, click here for her details. Our host, Deborah Ishihara, can be found here.

Talking Work is a podcast by Ius Laboris, the leading legal alliance in employment law - www.iuslaboris.com

We’ve just launched a tool to enable HR professionals to quickly check whether they have covered each area of compliance that they need to. It’s quick and easy to use and at the end you can download a report of the findings. Our lawyers explain more.

Discover our healthchecker tool here.

If you’d like to contact Hannah Price, click here for her details, to contact Markus Janko, click here for his details. Our host, Deborah Ishihara, can be found here.

Talking Work is a podcast by Ius Laboris, the leading legal alliance in employment law - www.iuslaboris.com

If your company is thinking of setting up workspaces in the metaverse, what HR issues do you need to consider? We went into the metaverse the other day to record an episode of Talking Work about potential issues of discrimination based on avatar design. It’s our first foray into the challenges of working in virtual reality and we interviewed Tarun Tawakley, partner at our UK law firm, Lewis Silkin.

You can hear an audio version here and there is a link to YouTube version here.

Read the article of Tarun Tawakley here.

If you’d like to contact Tarun Tawakley, click here for his details. Our host, Deborah Ishihara, can be found here.

Talking Work is a podcast by Ius Laboris, the leading legal alliance in employment law - www.iuslaboris.com

In this episode, we ask lawyers from France and the UK for an update on the law surrounding platform work. We look at recent case law and ask if there is any international consensus yet on how gig workers should be treated. We think about what steps platforms could take themselves to protect their workforce, even where this is not mandated by law and we also look at some new EU rules that will impact gig economy workers. Deborah Ishihara interviews Tarun Tawakley and Boris Muniz this time.

Discover our clear working conditions page here.

If you’d like to contact Tarun Tawakley, click here for his details, to contact Boris Muniz, click here for his details. Our host, Deborah Ishihara, can be found here.

Talking Work is a podcast by Ius Laboris, the leading legal alliance in employment law - www.iuslaboris.com