Gender diversity and good corporate governance debated at Sérvulo

NEWS AND EVENTS 11 Jun 2015

On June 16, at its Lisbon offices, SÉRVULO organises a seminar on gender diversity and good corporate governance, aimed mainly at human resources managers and legal directors of companies and institutions.

The initiative includes an intervention by Teresa Morais, Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Equality, and it aims to deal with the issue of gender diversity from several perspectives, through contributions from a number of relevant speakers.

Paulo Câmara, managing partner of SÉRVULO and specialist on the issue of corporate governance, will look at the issue from this latter perspective; Conceição Zagalo, President of the General Assembly of GRACE, representing IBM, and António Ramalho, President of IP - Infraestruturas de Portugal, will talk about the positive impact that gender diversity has on business and about the relationship between gender diversity and the promotion of talent, respectively. From a practical perspective of Employment law, the contributions from Magda Sousa Gomes and Rita Canas da Silva, both associates of Sérvulo’s Employment Law department, aim, first and foremost, to alert companies of the incentive opportunities for gender diversity that are already foreseen in employment legislation but little used, and, secondly, to signal some of the practices that currently exist in the business milieu that could clash with more recent jurisprudence on this subject.

The event, which is organised by SÉRVULO's Employment Law department, has as its aim to allow participating companies to align good corporate management with the best legal employment practices in the area of gender diversity.