Podcasts by The Lawdown: Employment Law Podcast Series from CM Murray LLP

Episode 25: Man United’s Mason Greenwood; Ministerial Misdemeanours; and Met Police Misconduct Failings from 2022-11-11T11:25:32

We are delighted to share Episode 25 of The Lawdown, our regular podcast discussing the latest key employment, discrimination and partnership law-related news stories, and the interesting legal ...

Episode 24: Government “scraps the cap” for banker bonuses; the long and winding road to closing the gender pay gap; and the latest hiring and firing trends from 2022-10-07T07:35:25

We are delighted to share Episode 24 of The Lawdown, our regular podcast discussing the latest key employment, discrimination and partnership law-related news stories, and the interesti...

Episode 23: Dina Asher-Smith’s call for more period sports science; RAF positive discrimination allegations; and the UK’s 4 day working week pilot from 2022-08-30T09:08:57

We are delighted to share Episode 23 of The Lawdown, our regular podcast discussing the latest key employment, discrimination and partnership law-related news stories, and the interesting legal ...

Episode 22: Partygate, Sue Gray Report finale, 75k sensationalist compensation award and walkout over sexist speech at the Scottish Sports Award from 2022-07-07T10:19:03

We are delighted to share Episode 22 of The Lawdown, our regular podcast discussing the latest key employment, discrimination and partnership law-related news stories, and the interesti...

Episode 21: Will Smith and Chris Rock's Oscar Incident, Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez’ Pregnancy Loss And The Boris Partygate Investigations from 2022-04-28T11:08:41

We are delighted to share Episode 21 of The Lawdown, our regular podcast discussing the latest key employment, discrimination and partnership law-related news stories, and the interesti...

Episode 20: Premiership footballer’s cat kicking misconduct, diversity and the future of barrister wigs, and harassment in the metaverse from 2022-03-03T17:37:50

We are delighted to share Episode 20 of The Lawdown, our regular podcast discussing the latest key employment, discrimination and partnership law-related news stories, and the interesting legal ...

Episode 19: Cutting sick pay for the unvaccinated, unpacking the 'politician's "sorry not sorry" apology', and Prince Andrew from 2022-01-28T11:46:53

It’s a new year – which, for the Lawdown podcast, means we get to share more of our legal take on new and interesting stories in the news with you! So please join us for our first episode of the...

Episode 18: FCA Board Diversity Proposals, Tackling Staff Burnout and the Dramatic Rise in Menopause-Related Tribunal Claims from 2021-12-09T10:30:21

In our latest episode of The Lawdown, Partners Beth Hale and Listen

The Lawdown Episode 18: FCA Board Diversity Proposals, Tackling Staff Burnout and the Dramatic Rise in Menopause-Related Tribunal Claims from 2021-12-09T10:30:21

In our latest episode of The Lawdown, Partners Beth Hale and Listen

Episode 17: Flexible Working, Women and Work, and Facebook’s Job Advertising Fiasco from 2021-10-13T09:56:46

With the world slowly trying to recover from the impact of the pandemic, in our latest episode of The Lawdown, Senior Associate Listen

Episode 16: Harassment during Lockdown and on Return to the Office from 2021-09-02T11:09:12

In our latest episode of The Lawdown, Partner Beth Hale, Senior Associate Listen

Episode 15: Key Family-Friendly Policies and Developments from 2021-07-23T12:06:10

In our latest episode of The Lawdown, Partner Beth Hale, Senior Associate Listen

Episode 14: The Relaunch – Naomi Osaka, Gary Lineker’s IR35 dispute and the potential impact of Covid electronic test and trace rules from 2021-06-11T09:13:36

In this “relaunch” episode of the Lawdown, we discuss:

• Naomi Osaka dropping out of the French Open due to mental health issues and the wider workplace implications of this story, i...
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Episode 13: A level results, covid quarantine and sick pay and the PPE procurement scandal from 2020-08-19T16:20:14

*With apologies for the sound quality at some points, a zoom and slow broadband issue got in the way, it will be fixed for next episode.* In this episode we discuss some of the recent headlines in ...

Episode 12: racism, covid and a Barnard Castle eye test from 2020-06-26T16:30:14

We are back after a long break, in which we were very busy with the day job. In this episode we discuss two huge issues which have dominated 2020: coronavirus and racism. We discuss how these impac...

Episode 11: privacy orders in the tribunal, bankers, restrictive covenants and Trump’s tweets from 2019-08-05T08:56:05

In this episode we discuss Mr X the millionaire businessman who sought a restricted reporting order from the Employment Tribunal to keep his identity secret; we talk about what employees can do if ...

Episode 10: A sports and politics special from 2019-05-08T12:51:42

In this episode of the Lawdown, Sarah Chilton and Beth Hale ...

Episode 9: Gender Pay, Alcohol Bans and Compensation in the Employment Tribunal from 2019-04-11T13:55:31

In this episode of the Lawdown, Wonu Sanda and Beth Hale discuss the latest gender pay gap reports (and what they tell us (and don't tell us) about equality of pay in the UK) and the reported ba...

Episode 8: NDAs, the gender pay gap and religious discrimination from 2019-03-18T07:09:56

In this episode we discuss NDAs following the publication of proposals from the Government for reform; we also highlight the, in some cases, increasing gender pay gap, nearly one year on from the f...

Episode 7: Brexit, workplace culture and non-compete restrictions from 2019-02-09T12:41:34

We are back after the festivities and thought it was time to talk Brexit. In this episode we clear up confusion about the European Court of Human Rights and the UK’s exit from the EU and discuss...

Episode 6: Veganism, hugging, emergency nannies and yet more Brexit from 2018-12-10T17:26:21

In our Christmas special (before we take a break until 2019), we talk about whether veganism could be a protectable belief under the Equality Act 2010, the Ted Baker enforced hugging scandal and Go...

Episode 5: big bonuses, microchipping, sexual harassment and the Lords and can we revoke Article 50? from 2018-11-22T12:14:19

In this episode we discuss the huge bonus awarded to the boss of Persimmon; we are back debating the topic of sexual harassment after allegations were made against the House of Lords peer and barri...

Episode 4: the “gay cake case”, injunctions and NDAs and #MeGoo from 2018-11-03T12:28:03

In this episode we discuss the “gay cake case” and why the Court reached the decision it did about the bakers who were sued for refusing to ice the slogan “Support Gay Marriage” on a cake (www.lawg...

Episode 3: Kavanaugh, Ronaldo and Parental Pay from 2018-10-16T11:51:21

In this episode we discuss the impact of the US Supreme Court selection process and the allegations made against Cristiano Ronaldo. We look at how employers should be dealing with historic allegati...

Episode 2: flexible working, Facebook and four day weeks from 2018-10-03T08:01:09

In this episode we discuss Facebook, flexible working and four day weeks as well as highlighting some of employment law proposals following the Labour Party Conference. For more information or to s...

Episode 1: a Scottish politician, Trump & a golf course from 2018-09-13T09:13:40

In this episode we discuss a former Scottish First Minister, Donald Trump, golf courses and flexible working! Some of these may have quite a bit in common, Trump and golf courses for example, but t...