Market report: employment
With battery of employment law issues for in-house teams to cope with in today’s rapidly altering climate, IHL asks specialist practitioners for their views.
Tumultuous is possibly an understatement when describing the past few years, not least the global Covid-19 pandemic proving a major game-changer socially, culturally, economically and politically. Significant shifts in all these categories of life have had profound employment law implications, pushing it ever higher up the corporate agenda.
‘Employers are obviously grappling with all of the myriad issues that this new world order has thrown up, and how they adapt their businesses to it,’ says Sharon Tan, employment partner at Mishcon de Reya. ‘What we’re witnessing is huge upheaval in the workplace generally, seismic changes coupled with economic challenges.’
