People are, and will remain, the most valuable resource managed by organisations across the globe. To succeed, transform and remain relevant business must navigate an increasingly complex employment law landscape.
Alongside the importance of attracting and retaining talent, adapting to changing employee expectations and engaging the workforce of the future, understanding rapidly developing employment law landscape and managing associated risks is a key part of the modern workforce agenda.
Our highly rated full-service employment law team are a fully integrated part of our people consulting business and ideally placed to support employers in simplifying people complexity.
In the last 5 years, the Legal 500 has named us HR Law Firm of the year twice and nominated us a third time, showing the strength and impact of our business focussed practice.
How we work, our place of work and what we mean by “work” is being transformed. What does this mean for your business and how will it adapt in a legally compliant way?
Getting the right talent mix, managing turnover and upskilling to grasp the opportunities created by technology innovation (such as AI and automation) requires careful planning and awarnesss of regulatory risk.
People risk is increasingly challenging in a complex and rapidly developing regulatory landscape and at a time of significant uncertainty.
Successful organisations need to have a clear understanding of their people obligations in the current regulatory environment and an ability to anticipate change and how it will affect those obligations. Is your organisation set up to succeed in this way?
Purpose, values and employee activism are changing the relationship between organisations and their people.
Are your teams able to adapt to this shifting dynamic and how this will impact your workforce relations? When the time comes, how will you engage individually and collectively with your people (and the unions or works councils who represent them) to achieve the outcomes you need on a local and global level?
Fairness and equality is no longer the gold standard. It is vital in the modern business world to attract and retain talent, meet ESG aspirations and ensure that trust in business is maintained. Is your workplace diversity agenda robust enough to ensure your people are treated in the right way and to protect your brand from adverse public perception? Are your societal impact aims reflected in the way you treat your people?
Our employment law experts can help you to manage your workforce and address the accompanying complexities and challenges. Our team can support across the entire people engagement lifecycle, bringing expert knowledge of applicable legal and regulatory requirements, best practice and deep market insight.
As an integral part of PwC’s People Consulting business, we work regularly with our non-legal colleagues to delivery to clients holistic business focussed people solutions. Many of our team have also worked on secondment in industry, giving them unique insight into the people challenges our clients face.
We have significant experience of supporting clients throughout the employment lifecycle, including on:
How will upcoming policy and tax changes impact employment? We look at the actions organisations can take to balance rising costs with having the right technology, people and skills for success.
Embracing broader Diversity, Equity and Inclusion reporting to create meaningful change
Using an employer of record (EOR) in new territories can be an effective means to begin recruiting workers. However, failure to address key issues can result in significant financial and legal risk for an organisation.
Supporting ethnic minorities in the workplace and driving transparency are key items on the Government’s agenda. Encouragingly reporting is increasing, with almost half of businesses surveyed planning to disclose their ethnicity pay gap in the next three years and an additional 10% having already done so - up from 3% in 2018.
UK and International Employment Law Partner, PwC United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)7595 609623
