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Richard Rowlands

Richard is an associate in the Employment and Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice Groups. He advises clients on complex/litigious HR-issues, global employment aspects of mergers & acquisitions and increasing cross-border regulatory employment law compliance for multinational companies, among other things.

Richard has assisted some of the world's largest companies with overhauling their methods for engaging institutional and individual consultants, as well as designing key internal policies. Having spent six months on secondment at a large pharmaceutical client, Richard understands and is well equipped to deal with the problems that clients in highly regulated industries face.

Richard is committed to pro bono work. He has worked on a wide variety of matters, including those relating to charity, environmental and immigration law.

Richard is a co-founder and co-lead of the firm’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Book Club.

From as soon as 1 January 2024, the UK Government is implementing a wide range of new employment law that will affect organizations with UK operations. Below is a handy table summarizing key changes and start dates.

Some critical issues for employers include: (i) stronger workplace protections against sexual harassment; (ii) increased employee flexible working rights; (iii) new holiday pay rules; (iv) new employee rights to request predictable working terms; (v) rights for agency workers to request jobs at client companies; and (vi) changes to TUPE. Continue Reading Eight Imminent Key Changes to UK Employment Law