Talking Work

Pride Month is coming to a close, but we still have more to discuss about LGBTQ+ equality at work...

We invited Debjani Aich, partner at our Indian member firm Kochhar & Co., to tell us about equality in terms of transgender rights, as Indian law now protects the 'Third Gender'. We also discuss the impact of #metoo in India and what India has been doing in relation, for example, to the gender pay gap.

Find out more about the protection of the Third Gender in India here.

If you would 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

As life expectancy increases, governments are starting to redesign pensions for the future. So, will people need to work for longer and will governments require employers to provide pensions for employees?

In this episode, Corine Hoekstra, senior associate at our Dutch pensions firm Blom Veugelers Zuiderman Advocaten, joins us to talk about pensions law reform and also how a planned new Dutch pensions law will impact business.

If you would like to contact Corine Hoekstra 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 biggest misconceptions lawyers have about legal tech? What key trends are we seeing right now? Martin Kammandel, legal tech engineer at Kliemt.HR, breaks down these questions and talks about some of the projects his team has been working on.

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

As discussed previously in this podcast, there is an ongoing debate around the world as to whether gig workers should be classified as employees or self-employed. Recently, in Australia, the court in a case involving Deliveroo held that delivery workers class as employees. We invited Claire Brattey, special counsel at Corrs Chambers Westgarth, to tell us more about this and its possible impact and also to talk to us about the way casual workers are supported in Australia.

If you would like to contact Claire Brattey click here for her details. Our host, Deborah Ishihara, can be found here.

Take a look at our special report on atypical work here to access other insights and content about gig economy.

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

Remote working is here to stay but what happens if an employee wants to work from abroad? It turns out this raises all sorts of questions about immigration, employment law in the new country, health & safety, social security, tax and other compliance issues. We invited Sophie Maes, partner of Claeys & Engels to talk to us about all of these and more.

Our Working from Abroad survey is now live on the website. This sets out which rules apply when someone works from any one of 25+ countries. Make sure to check it out here.

If you would like to contact Sophie Maes click here for her details and 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 invited Pascal Lagoutte, partner in our French firm, CAPSTAN Avocats, and chairman of the Ius Laboris alliance, to talk to us about managing operations in France from an HR perspective. We discuss what to look out for in French employment law, including some things that foreign companies might find surprising about running a business in France. Pascal also gives us his view on what distinguishes Ius Laboris as an alliance and highlights that we have been working together now for 20 years, serving our clients in one big team, across the world.

If you would like to contact Pascal Lagoutte 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

When lockdowns started happening in different countries around the world last year, remote working was treated as an emergency measure. But now employers are having to work out how to set it up for the longer term – and that raises a whole raft of issues that need proper thought, such as health and safety, mental wellbeing, the right for employees disconnect, cybersecurity, how to monitor time spent working, work performance and more. There is a new remote working Act in Spain and so we head there (remotely) for this episode to talk to Iñigo Sagardoy, chairman of our Spanish firm Sagardoy Abogados to get his insights.

If you would like to contact Iñigo, click here for his details. Deborah Ishihara is available via email.

Don't forget to download our COVID-19: How and where to work guide and to keep an eye on our COVID-19 page.

We also have plenty of information on our website about working from home and you can take a look here. 

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

After one year of transformation of the workplace under COVID-19, this is a very different Labour Day and atypical work patterns are in the spotlight. In this episode, we take a look at the gig economy, with Román Gil, partner at our Spanish law firm Sagardoy Abogados. Román explains the difference between employees and independent contractors and why this matters, and looks at what courts around the world are saying about the rights of those engaged in platform work. He also shares his predictions as to how the gig economy will develop in the future.

If you would like to contact Román Gil Albuquerque, click here for his details. You can find out more about informal and atypical work patterns in our report here.

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

How are lawyers embracing new ways of thinking and working? And how is innovation improving the way legal services are delivered?

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

Israel has been quicker than any other country in the world to vaccinate its population and this has taken Israelis from lockdown to the road to freedom in just a few weeks. We caught up with Orly Gerbi, partner in our Israeli firm Herzog Fox & Neeman, to tell us how things are changing in Israel: whether people are going back to the office yet; whether employers are asking for proof of vaccination; what 'green status' is all about – and crucially, how people are feeling now they begin to glimpse the road ahead.

Don't forget to visit our Corona hub for regular updates, and you can also download our COVID-19: How and Where to Work guide covering 37 countries.

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