In the previous article in our series “Transforming Workplace” we considered the challenges to the employer’s organisational culture that will result from changed employee expectations and from modernising your Employee Value Proposition. In this article we look at how these enhancements to your organisational culture will challenge the capability and style of your leadership team.
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Global Employment Law: How the Gig Economy is reshaping labour markets
On 24 March 2022, Maartje Govaert, Global Head of Employment and Labour, joined the panel for the JP Morgan virtual Global ESG Conference, discussing “How the Gig Economy is reshaping labour markets: Exploring ESG Risks and Opportunities”.
Below is a summary of some of the points raised by Maartje in the discussion.
What is the …
Global Employment Law: Organisational Culture Reimagined – Transforming Workplace #6

In the series of Transforming Workplace articles we have explored some significant changes to the external and internal environments in which an organisation operates. In this article we look at how modernising your Employee Value Proposition will present challenges to your organisational culture.
Organisational Culture Reimagined
This article is part of our Transforming Workplace series. …
Global Employment Law: Update and Modernise Your Employee Value Proposition Transforming Workplace #5

Asking your employees what they want and need (see our previous Transforming Workplace paper) is a vital part of updating your organisation’s Employee Value Proposition (EVP). In this article we explain more about your EVP.
Update and Modernise Your Employee Value Proposition.
This article is part of our Transforming Workplace series. Other articles exploring the…
Global Employment Law: What do your employees want and need? Transforming Workplace #4


During the pandemic, employees rethought their relationship with work. Employees now seek roles that offer competitive remuneration with other benefits including flexibility, health, well-being and work-life balance. Read more on this in our next article in the Transforming Workplace series.
What do your employees want and need?
This article is part of our Transforming Workplace…
Global Employment Law: The “Great Enlightenment”: Why and how employees have rethought their relationship with work. Transforming Workplace #3


In the next in the Transforming Workplace global series we examine why and owe employees have rethought their relationship with work.
The “Great Enlightenment”: Why and how employees have rethought their relationship with work
This article is part of our Transforming Workplace series. Other articles exploring the opportunities, challenges and risk of the transforming workplace…
Global Employment Law – “Intent to Resign”: The Real Risk Transforming Workplace #2


In the next in the Transforming Workplace global series we examine the looming “Intent to Resign” challenge facing businesses worldwide
“Intent to Resign”: The Real Risk
This article is part of our Transforming Workplace series. Other articles exploring the opportunities, challenges and risk of the transforming workplace can be found here.
Global Employment Law: The “Great Resignation”: A Global Risk? Transforming Workplace – #1


With the global change in the way we work seen as a key element of the new “business as usual”, our Transforming Workplace global series examines the global perspectives of the opportunities, challenges and risks of this new transforming workplace. In the first in this series we examine the concept of the “Great Resignation”.
The…
Transfer of employees in China
When structuring an acquisition or disposal of a business in China, the transfer of employees is one of the key points that the parties need to consider.
Under PRC law, if an acquisition or disposal is structured as a share deal, so that the buyer acquires the equity in the target company, the employees of…
Social Insurance in China
Having developed over decades, the social insurance scheme in China has been gradually unified nationwide and is now primarily regulated by the PRC Social Insurance Law (SIL), which came into effect in 2011. Prior to the SIL, the social insurance scheme in China was regulated by various administrative regulations.
The SIL consolidated the…