Talking Work

How can managers run meetings in a way that allows everyone’s voice to be heard? How can they create an environment in which people feel empowered to challenge others’ ideas, so as to get the best outcomes? We talk to a pensions lawyer intent on making boards of trustees as diverse and inclusive as possible about her ideas. Emily Rowley is a lawyer at our UK pensions firm, Sackers.

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If you’d like to contact Emily Rowley, 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 take a look in this episode at business in New Zealand and, in particular, businesses that are struggling to get back up and running smoothly after COVID. As with other places in the world, New Zealand’s travel and hospitality industries are at the sharp end of this and we talk to Scott Worthy from our New Zealand firm to find out what’s happening what businesses can do about it from an HR perspective.

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If you’d like to contact Scott Worthy, 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

The EU’s work/life balance directive comes into operation in August and so, in this episode, we take a look at what it says. We also think about gender disparity at home more generally and how this impacts the workplace. Our guests today are Sara Baldus from Denmark and Katarzyna Dobkowska from Poland.

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Read more about the Time Off Work chapter of our Global Guide here.

If you’d like to contact Sara Baldus, click here for her details, and to contact Katarzyna Dobkowska, 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

Every business is ultimately about its people and M&As, spin-offs and carve-outs are no exception. But what employment and personal data issues need to be considered when handling a corporate transaction of this kind and what are the potential pitfalls? We asked two specialist employment lawyers to answer our questions.

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Go to Global Guide Restructuring and Data Privacy chapters.

If you’d like to contact Lee Nair, click here for her details, or Ben Favaro, 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, Catherine Leung, partner in our Hong Kong law firm, talks to us about how environmental, social and governance issues are being handled by employers in Hong Kong and the APAC region. We find out what kind of initiatives are being taken and discuss also the impact of the pandemic on the way workplaces now operate.

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If you’d like to contact Catherine Leung, 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

From one of the longest lockdowns in the world, to strong protections against dismissals and layoffs, we hear from Verónica Puerta Basaldúa from our Argentinian law firm Funes de Rioja about how the pandemic has played out there and what the situation is now.

If you’d like to contact Verónica Puerta Basaldúa, 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

In this episode, lawyers from the UK, the US, Denmark and Hong Kong discuss some of the benefits of the new ways of working that have emerged from the pandemic, along with some of the challenges. For instance, is greater flexibility always a plus? What about the right to disconnect? And how has gender equality been affected and how have people with disabilities fared? Our panel discuss these issues and more.

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If you’d like to contact Lucy Lewis, click here for her details. 

You can also contact Rebecca Rule here, Yvonne Frederiksen here,  Dawn Siler-Nixon here, and Kathryn Weaver here.

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

Chile is getting a new president and his views about how employment should look are very different from those of his predecessors. We talk to Marcela Salazar, partner in our Chilean law firm, to find out what’s likely to happen, as the new president takes office on 11 March.

If you’d like to contact Marcela Salazar, 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

How does the law protect women in India and what is the legacy of #metoo? We ask Debjani Aich, partner at our Indian member firm Kochhar & Co., to come on the podcast to discuss these things and to tell us what her clients are doing to promote equality in their workplaces.

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If you’d like to contact Debjani Aich, 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

Burkard Göpfert from our German law firm joins us today to talk about restructuring and focuses on some of the ways to avoid the pain of workforce reduction. We also look at the challenges for unions in representing remote workers and whether employers need to provide them with electronic means of contacting workers. Listen in for this and more.

Read more about the New Workplace, restructuring and labour relations here.

If you’d like to contact Burkard Göpfert, 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