Miriam Bruce

Partner, Mayer Brown

Miriam Bruce has been recognized in the legal directories for a number of years and is listed as a "Next Generation Partner" by Legal 500 and an “Up and Coming” Partner in Chambers UK.

Highly experienced, Miriam deals with a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters and acts for clients across a variety of sectors, including insurance, financial services, retail and manufacturing. She has a particular interest in diversity, equity and inclusion matters and has led teams on innovative and award winning multi-jurisdictional projects in this area.

Her advisory experience includes providing strategic input on issues such as: restructuring and contractual change programmes as well as business transfers (both in the UK and internationally), executive and senior level recruitment, employee data privacy, and complex investigations and related disciplinary and grievance matters. Miriam has particular experience in managing global employment law projects across a number of jurisdictions on issues including cross-border redundancies, outsourcings and the collection and storage of diversity data. She regularly advises on the employment implications of high profile administration and/or restructuring matters.

Miriam’s contentious experience includes acting for employers in complex Employment Tribunal hearings. She also has significant experience in both the Employment Appeal Tribunal and High Court, dealing with high profile and high value discrimination and breach of contract claims.

Miriam speaks regularly at internal and external events on employment law related issues.

Miriam joined Mayer Brown in 2005 as a trainee and qualified in 2007.

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Competition and employment law issues

Practice Notes

This Practice Note considers the application of UK competition law to employment and labour market issues. In particular, it considers:•the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) ongoing enforcement focus on labour markets and related guidance for employers, HR professionals and recruiters•transactional and merger control considerations relating to employment and labour market restrictions•the legal framework applicable to employment and labour market restrictions under the Chapter I prohibition•competition law issues arising from information sharing between competing employers in relation to pay, benefits and other employment-related terms•wage-fixing and no-poach agreements between businesses competing for workers, including related issues concerning non-compete and non-solicitation clauses•wider international developments concerning competition law restrictions affecting workers and labour mobilityThis Practice Note therefore provides a high-level overview of the key competition law issues that may arise in the employment context. As competition authorities develop their scrutiny of labour market practices, businesses should ensure that

Competition