Horizon Scanning Summer 2020

Published

Jul 27 2020

Written By

Senior Associate
UK

I am an employment law and employee relations specialist. My clients operate across a range of industries, from global corporations to small and medium size enterprises.

Emily Clark

Partner
UK

I am a partner in our International HR Services group, based in London. I advise on all aspects of UK employment law with particular experience in supporting multi-national companies with cross-border projects.

Pattie Walsh

Partner
UK

Here at Bird & Bird, I am a partner in our International Employment Group. I am currently qualified to practise in Hong Kong, Australia and England. This reflects my recent history where I have been lucky enough to be based in San Francisco, Hong Kong, Sydney and London. Most recently, I was based in our San Francisco office which I co-led, before returning to London.

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Regions

Western Europe

In the past six months the world has taken a turn that none of us could have predicted. COVID-19 and the tragic death of George Floyd guarantee that the workplace and indeed the workforce will never again be quite the same.

Horizon Scanning V01

COVID-19 has cast the world into a deep recession but its effects are not uniformly felt either by geography or sector. Some sectors have been adversely impacted, in the case of hospitality and airlines severely, yet in the IT sector and the world of digital finance it is a story of opportunity and growth. For some employers the priority is cost cutting, for others it is talent attraction and expansion.

In our latest edition of Horizon Scanning we look at the global trends influencing the HR and employment law agenda and how all this is being impacted by COVID-19. The topics covered include:

Providing a safe place of work
Business continuity
What the workforce of the future may look like
Workforce relations and employee activism
Business protection strategy
Equality and diversity
Global mobility

We have also prepared a jurisdictional guide to legal changes we anticipate over the coming months across the EU and APAC with a 'traffic light' code to help organisations prioritise attention to them.

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