Are you breaking up with me?

The legal considerations of an organisation leaving the UN Common System or the UN Joint Staff Pension Fund This article was first published in the FICSA Magazine, Edition 2, May 2020 “We don’t talk anymore” The UN common system (UNCS) applies common standards across a number of UN agencies. A key benefit to the system is […]

The impact of COVID-19 on employment disputes

Our working environments have changed. My goal in this post is to avoid using the most popular terms of 2020, such as ‘unprecedented’ or ‘pivot’, but it goes without saying that we all have to continually adapt to more and more working online. Let me offer three observations on how the pandemic has affected work […]