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The attempts by state legislators to outlaw union-management deals that allow union dues to be checked off directly from payrolls before salaries are paid, are being frustrated by advocates of the Taft–Hartley Act (LMRA) that cite SeaPak v. Indus., Tech.

The threat made by the US President-elect to impose a 35% tariff on the products of US companies that are manufactured offshore will almost certainly backfire.

Not only does America impose one of the highest corporation taxes in the world

The Department of Labour and Social Security has formalized its constraints on the posting of workers from all foreign countries by setting up an on-line portal. Employers posting workers on assignment into Italy (including from EEA member states) must now

The Russian Cabinet has reduced the number of work permits in the annual quota for 2017 by 17.3% compared to 2016. Although substantial, it is below the 36% cut in the quota introduced between 2015 and 2016. The quota for

Hourly labour costs rose, on average, by 1.9% across the European Union over the year to Q3 2016. The wage and salary component increased by 2% and non-remuneration component by 1.5%. Labour costs increased most in Romania(+14.7%), the Czech Republic(+9.0%),

The UK tax authorities – HMRC – has issued a consultation paper about how they wish to handle “offshore structures” that may, or may not, seek to evade UK tax. What they propose is a requirement to notify (RTN) approach,

The Labour Law Amendment Bill is just passing through its committee stage in the national parliament. The Bill introduces rights for parental and adoptive leave, paid for through the Unemployment Insurance Fund. Under draft provisions applications for adoption benefits are

One of the ironies of Brexit is that it may be driving some companies to establish operations in the UK in order to avoid the hostile approach of the EU to tax deals done between companies and individual country governments.

From January 1^st 2017, the daily minimum wage will be increased to $80,04 pesos (US$3.88).  The new wage is comprised of a 3.8% increase, plus a flat-rate of $4 pesos to compensate for the minimum wage freeze last year. 

The fate of the Italian airline Alitalia remains highly uncertain as it continues to lose over half a million euros a day. The largest shareholder, Etihad, is currently contemplating a cut of 2,000 of the company’s staff and the grounding

A Federal judge in Texas has issued a temporary national injunction suspending a regulation issued by the US Department of Labour that doubled (to $47,476) the salary threshold under which workers receive time-and-a-half pay whenever they work more than 40

A warning has been issued by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Taiwan concerning the spread of severe complicated influenza (SCI) and the need for vaccinations before the onset of winter. SCI arises where patients already suffer from another

Data protection authorities in ten different German Lander (states) are currently undertaking a coordinated investigation into 500 large companies to determine how they handle data transfers to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Companies that have established transfer procedures

The French data protection authority (CNIL) has issued two new types of authorizations for use by organisations which use biometric data for personnel security access purposes. Where the data subject (employee) has the possibility of verifying the accuracy of the