Theresa May has spent her final few weeks in office trying to salvage a meaningful prime ministerial legacy from the long shadow of her failed Brexit strategy. Part of this effort is her plan to introduce 12 weeks’ paternity leave for new fathers, as part of her drive to reduce the UK’s gender pay gap. […]

The summer of 2018 set many records. But as holidaymakers enjoyed the soaring temperatures, some of them were not just relaxing by their hotel pools, they were also reading through office memos and responding to emails from work colleagues. Thanks to the impact of technology ‘always being on call’ has become the new normal in […]

Quickly following on from the Harvey Weinstein scandal, the #MeToo hashtag went viral across all forms of social media. After it first appeared on Twitter, the hashtag was used 850,000 times within the first 48 hours. Since then, #MeToo has been posted on Twitter and elsewhere tens of millions of times, often accompanied by a […]

Ask someone to list innovative companies which have become notable disruptors in their market and they invariably respond with two names – Uber and Airbnb. That is because both brands are positioned squarely and successfully at the retail consumer: for people who use a taxi or take an occasional short break in a foreign city, […]

Following Carrie Gracie’s resignation as BBC China editor, when she accused her employer of paying women less than men for equal work, the conversation has moved on from gender pay disparity at the corporation to what legal remedies are available for those who have suffered pay discrimination at the hands of their employers. A disparity […]

Donald Trump’s Twitter account has been in the news recently for a different reason.  A departing employee of Twitter deleted Trump’s account before leaving the business.  It was down for only about 11 minutes as, of course, all the data was fully backed up.  Whilst there were media reports that people had called for the […]

Although the gender pay gap has been steadily shrinking over the past few years, progress is still considered to be too slow. Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that on average, women earn 18.1 per cent less than men. For full-time employees the gap is smaller at 9.4 per cent, however when you mine into […]