Absent without leave….
Sorry I have not posted a blog in a while but who can believe we are already in the month of May? When I am not writing here, please do check out Hine Legal’s newsletter as I am regular contributor there. I can also be found on Twitter, LinkedIn and now recently, Instagram.
My inability to post regularly has not been due to a lack of activity. I set out below a flavour of the things I have been up to:
- I attended the Agile Working Event where one of my fellow partners, Jane Wheeler, gave a very interesting presentation on what is meant by “agile working” and why it benefits employers as well as employees;
- I provided an Employment Law Clinic at Wayra UK’s clinic to its current cohort. For the uninitiated, Wayra UK (which is part of Telefónica’s Open Future) is a leading start-up accelerator. Offering SMEs with guidance on employment law is a key interest of mine and in addition to running another session at Wayra’s swanky offices in June, I will also be giving a talk for the Institute of Directors Youth forum on such issues in October.
- I was recently speaking about all matters Agile Working related on the People Platform show, Channel radio. I really enjoyed the experience and hope to be able to do more of this in the near future. If you are not clear on the distinction between flexible working and agile working – please review my article on this.
- Upcoming: I will be speaking at Silver Shemmings breakfast seminar on 16 May about Employment Law Considerations relevant to the construction industry. If you would like to attend please do as it’s free. Please click here for further details.
I will be posting a 5 part series on diversity in the workplace, which is an area that I am very passionate about. It is my position (perhaps unsurprisingly for an employment lawyer) that diversity in the workplace is a good thing but that we tend to have quite a straight-jacketed view as to what a diverse workplace looks like.
The 5 part series will look at the following:
- Class;
- Disability;
- Ethnicity;
- Gender; and
- Personality type.
I’ll be publishing my thoughts on class in the workplace next Monday. In the meantime, what social class do you think you belong to? I attach a link to a social class calculator which I shall discuss in the upcoming blog post.
Until the next instalment.
Fudia