Press
We comment on the issues from the perspectives of both employees/claimants and employers/respondents, with our focus being on supporting and creating law that works.
We have no political agenda and because of this our views are actively sought and respected by Government and other organisations in the employment law field.
The articles below are a combination of those written directly by ELA members and those written by others, but in which ELA members are quoted.
Today, the Employment Law Association (ELA) has identified a number of significant flaws with the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, in a letter to the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
Global Recruiter
‘Mass litigation post-pandemic’ could be brought unless the government addresses ‘significant flaws’ in its furlough scheme, employment lawyers have warned
New Law Journal
Employment law has a stark gender problem, and firms need to recognise their biases to change it
The Times (£)
By Marian Bloodworth
In January 2020, the national Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) launched its Counsel Instructions Monitoring Scheme amongst the firms and organisations represented in its UK-wide membership of 6,000 employment lawyers, in order to monitor solicitors’ instructions to employment law barristers by reference to gender (of both the solicitors and barristers)
The Law Society Gazette
By Marian Bloodworth, Claire McCann
It is human nature to go back to familiar, tried and tested counsel, but this can mean that the same pool of barristers will always receive the briefs.
Law.com International (£)
By Marian Bloodworth and Claire McCann