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Woman Worker
Black Lives Matter Ethnic pay gap reporting Race pay gap

‘Black Lives Matter’ One Year On: Mind The Gap

In Black History Month, Lydia O’Connor-Butler discusses the race pay gap and the changes needed to make reporting compulsory.

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Child Labour
Child Labour

The mental health impact of child labour in supply chains

Following World Mental Health Day, marked by the World Health Organisation on every 10 October, Malik Gray and Rachel Bonner discuss the need for more recognition and awareness of the mental health ramifications of child labour in supply chains.

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Equal Pay
Equal Pay Now Employment Workers rights

Every little helps: how equal value claims are addressing unequal pay in the workplace

Earlier today employment partner Emma Satyamurti was a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour discussing the importance of pay and benefits in achieving equality. Here, she looks at the role Leigh Day’s Equal Pay Now campaign is playing in addressing the balance.

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Afghanistan Taliban International Day of the Girl United Nations Girls Women

Afghan women and girls losing decades of hard-fought progress

In the month of the United Nations International Day of the Girl Child, Claire Powell looks at the prospects for women and girls in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s return to power.

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International Day of the Girl Child Period poverty

The impact of period poverty in the UK and around the world

A week on from International Day of the Girl Child Liberty Bridge and Sami Freeze from the international department look to how lack of access to sanitary products is affecting access to education for girls around the globe

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Amazon Courier
Amazon Employment rights Gig Economy Drivers

Overworked and underpaid: what its really like to deliver for Amazon

Amazon proudly calls the drivers distributing their parcels ‘delivery heroes’, but is the trillion-dollar company treating them accordingly? Here, Bill Lightfoot*, explains what its really like to deliver for Amazon.

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Kariba Dam
black history month access to justice

Hydropower, racism and the denial of justice

For Black History Month, trainee solicitor Walker Syachalinga discusses the history of the Tonga - an indigenous tribe in Zambia - to highlight the racism suffered by indigenous communities during large dam projects and call for a rights-based approach to such projects. 

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Corporate Buildings
Corporate accountability Crime

Lafarge judgment paves the way for more companies to be held accountable for profiting from criminal organisations

Lauren Chaplin from the international team discuss the landmark judgment of the French Supreme Court against French multinational Lafarge SA following claims brought by former employees of the company’s Syrian subsidiary.

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Solicitors Regulation Authority Solicitors online reviews law firm online reviews Regulatory and disicplinary

Successfully navigating online comparison and review

Emma Walker discusses the challenges of online comparisons and reviews for law firms and their staff

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Oak Tree In Field
Greenwashing Competition and markets authority Environment Consumer law

Competition and Markets Authority clamps down on greenwashing

Meriel Hodgson-Teall, Monika Kaczmarska and Charlotte Shippey consider moves by the Competition and Markets Authority to halt the practice of ‘greenwashing’.

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prisoner rights, prisons, women-prisons, pregnancy

Is it time to stop holding pregnant women in prison?

A harrowing report published by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman reveals major failings in the care and treatment of pregnant women in prison, following the death of a baby born at HMP Bronzefield in 2019. In this blog post, Maya Grantham and Ellie Sutherland consider the failings highlighted by this tragic case and whether it is safe to hold pregnant women in prison.

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Airplane
Travel claims Personal injury

Travelling abroad – What to do if you are injured on an airplane

Travel law specialists Clare Campbell and Caitlin Dunn discuss flight accidents and the legal rights and protections afforded to airplane travellers