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Progress towards female equality in senior leadership is accelerated when men act as allies. Informed by Grant Thornton’s research into the global mid-market, this article reveals what being a male ally looks like, and outlines the practical steps businesses can take to drive action and remove the organisational and cultural barriers to male allyship.

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes. In order to provide support to the Ukrainian refugees as soon as possible, the EU Mass Influx Directive (EU Directive 2001/55/EC) was activated on 03.03.2022. This grants subjects a temporary residence permit, access to the labor market, social benefits, residential, medical care and educational opportunities.

All employees who work abroad must carry an A1 certificate with them due to the EU regulation (VO 883/2004 as well as VO 987/2009). This regulation applies not only to the posting of employees, but also to short business trips abroad. Therefore, an A1 certificate is required for every cross-border activity, no matter how short, and from the very first day.

After leaping back strongly from the darkest days of the pandemic, the global mid-market could only manage a small additional step forward in the second half of 2021, as tracked by the Global business pulse, Grant Thornton’s index of health among mid-sized companies.

The new lockdown brings with it changes to short-time work. The aim is to help companies reduce personnel costs and maintain jobs. For this purpose, there are some new features and reliefs, provided they are confirmed by law.

At the COP Conference in Glasgow over the next two weeks, over 25,000 people representing 200 countries including policy makers, negotiators, journalists and world leaders from business and politics will meet to agree accelerated reduction of emmissions and collaborative means to keep the forecast global temperature rise to under 1.5 degrees.

Mid-market businesses around the world want to accelerate their ESG and sustainability journey.

Hotels may have escaped many of the negative headlines associated with aviation and tourism, but they still face real challenges.

Reforms to the international tax framework have been debated and discussed at length in recent years.

Eight of the 13 monitored mid-market industries returned to positive health in H1 2021, as assessed by Grant Thornton’s unique Global business pulse, compared with just two in H2 2020.

On the occasion of the current ECJ case law, the new LSD-BG was amended accordingly.

Over the last 18 months, we have all had cause to be more empathetic, in our home lives, with our colleagues, and towards our communities. And business leaders have faced imperatives to be empathetic in their roles, as physical collaboration has been replaced with virtual interaction, and staff have been placed under unprecedented stresses, calling for an altered, more flexible leadership skillset.

Demystifying psychological safety, revealing the practical application behind the complex language surrounding it, is vital if leaders are going to succeed in creating an inclusive working environment.

Now that Short-Time Work Phase IV has expired at the end of June 2021 and many companies are still economically impacted due to the Corona pandemic, the government and the social partners recently announced the first details of short-time work Phase V. Below you will find the main framework conditions of the new Corona short-time work Phase V.

In the post-pandemic landscape, a new model of leadership will be needed to enable organisations to thrive. Engendering innovation, collaborating and communicating across the business, and adapting to change have become operational necessities, while empathy and inclusion are the keys to team performance.

After the short-time-work phase IV will expire within the end of June, the government together with the social partners recently announced the first bullet points on the new short-time-work phase V.