Unions Access all areas? Understanding the new trade union access regime With new rights soon coming into force, employers face a fundamental shift in how trade unions can engage with their workforce Labour Reforms Preparing for the new landscape of trade union recognition The UK’s Employment Rights Act has made statutory recognition easier to achieve and opened the door to earlier union involvement Equality What happens when equality representatives get statutory teeth? New rights to paid time off and workplace facilities give trade union reps a more prominent role Industrial action Understanding stronger detriment protections for striking workers New rules strengthen protected industrial action, while creating fresh challenges for employers managing strikes and maintaining business continuity DEI Accenture strikes $25m settlement over DEI discrimination claim Consulting firm hired additional entry level staff explicitly to meet internal race and sex hiring quotas, DoJ alleges Community Mishcon de Reya boosts education offering with barrister hire Miriam Carrión Benítez joins from VWV Law with a practice focused on investigations, culture reviews, and safeguarding Community Roschier welcomes new Stockholm counsel from Vinge Dual-qualified Simon Söderholm brings more than a decade of employment law experience to new firm Community Ogletree continues West Coast growth with Jackson Lewis shareholder New shareholder Donald Sullivan brings nearly 30 years’ experience in litigation, employee benefits, and ERISA matters Misclassification eCourier drivers’ misclassification claim “likely” to succeed, tribunal finds Judge said UK delivery firm would struggle to distinguish its independent contractor defence from Uber’s before it Events Global Employment Summit International Employment Lawyer is delighted to announce that the third Global Employment Summit will take place on Thursday 15th October at Convene 117 W 46th Street, New York.The full-day event will bring together leading in-house counsel, HR and ER professionals, and private practitioners from across the world to take a deep dive into the key issues impacting the management of global workforces from the vantage point of US-headquartered multinationals. Research IEL Monitor IEL Monitor is a forward-looking, fully searchable database of upcoming and prospective employment and labour legislation from around the world, designed to alert in-house teams of new laws and regulations, and support timely compliance. Private Practice Leaders Natural justice and the high cost of getting it wrong Private Practice Leaders We’re living in an uncertain and troubling world In-house interview I was overwhelmed by what I didn’t know after moving in-house