An interview with former Employment Judge and Mediator, Michael Malone has been featured in the December edition of Lawyer Monthly Magazine.
In the interview, entitled 'The Evolving Landscape of Employment Law: Key Insights on Equal Pay, Discrimination, and Workplace Mediation', Michael offers valuable insights drawn from his decades of work in Employment Law. He discusses key challenges in enforcing equal pay and discrimination legislation, including religion and belief discrimination, the evolving role of mediation, concluding with the importance of staying ahead of emerging developments in Employment Law and the workplace.
The full article can be found here.
Michael Malone is a non-practising solicitor, Mediator, and retired Employment Judge. He is based at Trinity Chambers in Newcastle and divides his time mainly between the North East and the North West. He has substantial experience as a former Judicial Mediator and is also CEDR accredited. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Michael writes and lectures for both professional and lay audiences on equal pay and discrimination law generally. His publications include Discrimination Law - A Practical Guide for Management (Kogan Page 1993). Subsequently, he was the joint author, with Martin Edwards, of two editions of Tolley’s Equal Opportunities Handbook. He currently updates, at quarterly intervals, the equal pay and pensions chapters of Butterworths Discrimination Law.
Michael undertook a significant amount of equal pay work during his time as a salaried employment judge. The most high-profile case he chaired was a challenge to a job evaluation study covering approximately one million jobs (‘Hartley’). Tribunals that he chaired also considered market forces defences in that case and two other cases.
For further details, contact Josh Stewart-Tilling by email josh@trinitychambers.co.uk or call 0191 232 1927.