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Nov 25, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Louise Fernandes-Owen |Miriam Bruce
In this episode of OPEN Talks, our diversity, equity and
inclusion podcast series, we swap perspectives, with Miriam Bruce, Partner in the London Employment
Group, interviewing Louise Fernandes-Owen, Global Knowledge
Counsel for the Employment & Benefits Group, about Mayer
Brown's OPEN initiative.
Their conversation explores why we launched the initiative, what
it entails and how it has developed – covering the
challenges, surprises and highlights along the way.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Miriam Bruce |Louise Fernandes-Owen
In this episode of OPEN Talks, our diversity, equity and inclusion podcast series, we swap perspectives, with Miriam Bruce, Partner in the London Employment Group, interviewing Louise Fernandes-Owen, Global Knowledge Counsel for the Employment & Benefits Group, about Mayer Brown’s OPEN initiative. Their conversation explores why we launched the initiative, what it entails and how it has developed – covering the challenges, surprises and highlights along the way.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Miriam Bruce |Francesca Ingham
AT A GLANCE Companies face a range of different challenges when a business is raided such as the impact on clients, the team left behind and the protection of confidential information. There are various different legal actions and strategies that raided employers can consider to protect the business following a raid, depending on the jurisdiction and the factual situation.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Miriam Bruce |Christopher Fisher
Post-termination restrictive covenants are fairly common in
English employment contracts, particularly for senior employees or
those with valuable connections, relationships or access to
confidential information. However, they are unenforceable unless an
employer can establish that (i) it has a legitimate business
interest that it is seeking to protect; and (ii) the restriction
goes no further than is necessary to protect that interest.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Miriam Bruce |Francesca Ingham
Companies face a range of different challenges when a business
is raided such as the impact on clients, the team left behind and
the protection of confidential information.
There are various different legal actions and strategies that
raided employers can consider to protect the business following a
raid, depending on the jurisdiction and the factual situation.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | James Perrott |Miriam Bruce
New Immigration Rules came into force in the
UK on 4 April 2024 which affect employers who sponsor workers under
the Skilled worker or Global Business Mobility: Senior or
Specialist Worker routes.
Broadly, the main changes are:
The minimum salary threshold for this route has been increased
from £26,200 to £38,700 per year;
The way that the minimum occupation-related going rate salaries
are calculated has been amended.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Miriam Bruce |James Perrott
New Immigration Rules came into force in the UK on 4 April 2024 which affect employers who sponsor workers under the Skilled worker or Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker routes. SKILLED WORKER CHANGESBroadly, the main changes are: The minimum salary threshold for this route has been increased from £26,200 to £38,700 per year; The way that the minimum occupation-related going rate salaries are calculated has been amended.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Miriam Bruce |Jennifer Chih |Aline Marques Fidelis
Affirmative action is a hot topic for businesses. Since the 2023 US Supreme Court decision in Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard University and University of North Carolina, which held that attempts to increase diversity in universities by taking race into account in admissions decisions were not permissible, employers in the United States and beyond have been reviewing their diversity programs.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Miriam Bruce |Katherine Fox |Oliver Yaros |Ellen Hepworth
Legal frameworks governing the use of AI in employment are
developing rapidly across the globe. In most countries, the area is
currently regulated separately by both employment and data
protection regulators.
While new legislation governing AI has been approved by the
European Parliament, and the position in the United States varies
by state, not all jurisdictions are proposing AI legislation.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Miriam Bruce |Katherine Fox |Ellen Hepworth
In recent years, we have seen an increase in employers using artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace, whether to assist with decision-making and staff management across the life-cycle of the employment relationship or to support recruitment and termination decisions. In this article, we will focus primarily on the recruitment stage. We have seen AI used to make recommendations on whether to shortlist a candidate for interview against parameters the AI has been instructed to look for.
