Global Employment & Benefits

James Perrott, Counsel at Mayer Brown in the Employment & Benefits practice of the London office, and Head of the firm’s Global Mobility & Migration practice in Europe, comments on the struggle European firms in London are facing to get European lawyers into the UK due to post-Brexit immigration issues. The article “Red Tape, Rising

In extremely welcome news, the Home Office has recently announced that the Covid-19 adjustment to the Right to Work (“RTW”) check process has been extended again.  Surprisingly, it has now been extended to 5 April 2022.  This is a move that is very much welcomed by employers, particularly in view of the new hybrid working

In an eagerly anticipated update, the Home Office has announced that the Covid-19 adjustment to the right to work check will no longer end on 20 June 2021 but will be extended to 1 September 2021.  Read here for our full blog post:

https://www.mobilework.law/2021/06/a-welcome-and-longer-than-expected-extension-to-the-covid-19-uk-right-to-work-check-concession/

During the COVID-19 pandemic, data privacy – and, in particular, employee data privacy – has been at the forefront of employers’ minds. In the last six months, employers across the globe have been required to give careful thought to a whole host of potential issues, from contact tracing apps to temperature and other health checks

A Legal and Practical Checklist for UK Employers whose staff wish to work from outside the UK

Since the Covid-19 pandemic began to impact working life in the UK in March 2020, the workplace has changed beyond recognition. In the UK, 60% of employees are now working from home (“WFH”) on a semi-permanent basis. Without

If you or your colleagues cover US benefits and/or executive compensation, please join Mayer Brown’s Benefits & Compensation University.

By popular demand, we are expanding our annual US Executive Compensation University to include health, welfare and qualified plan issues. During this series of webinars, we will explore benefit and compensation issues in depth and hear

In a world where we can no longer host in person events without following all of the latest government guidelines on social distancing, use of face masks and providing a bucket-load of hand sanitizer, online learning tools such as webinars, podcasts, blogs and vlogs, are having their time in the limelight. With this new era, comes new opportunity.
Continue Reading UK Employment Law podcaster Nicholas Robertson hosts pandemic related broadcasts produced by the Employment Lawyers Association and the Industrial Law Society

For a third consecutive year, the London head of Employment at Mayer Brown, Nicholas Robertson, has edited and contributed a preface and chapter on the UK in the latest edition of The Labour and Employment Disputes Review.
The book, published by The Law Reviews in March 2020, is a yearly review of procedure, key

As the number of reported cases of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) continues to rise and authorities ramp up preparations to handle possible contagion, so too must employers.

Click here for helpful guidance from our Hong Kong team on what employers in Hong Kong are required to do when dealing with a Novel Coronavirus outbreak.