Recent news

Latest items of recent news relevant to Global as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’. 

Global: Meetings

Companies are being faced with some dilemmas about the holding of physical, formal meetings and gatherings in the light of the current health crisis …

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Global: Protecting employees

Although the general advice about handwashing is an important defence against disease transmission, there are some very effective ways that employees can be protected from the worst consequences if infection strikes …

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Global: Intermediate locations

Employers eager to repatriate, or transfer, key employees from China (and other currently restricted locations) are running out of options …

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Global: False predictions from OECD

Instead of taking on board the current stock market panic, oil price collapse and their broader economic consequences, the OECD has just produced its blindly optimistic interim economic assessment that predicts global GDP growth this year to average 2 …

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Global: Recessionary trends

Long before the current epidemic, FedEE has been predicting for the last two years a global recession by Q3 2020 – flatly against the forecasts of the IMF, OECD and other leading economic forecasters …

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Global: Emergency measures

Employers need to take a calm and properly informed view about the current coronavirus epidemic, avoiding the generally ill-informed press/media hype …

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Global: Employee transfers

The importance of remittances to their home country made by individuals, plus the compensation of foreign temporary/seasonal workers, has increased during recent years …

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Global: Longer-term GDP Growth

The underlying, and often not openly articulated, concern in Europe and the USA is that current economic growth trajectories will see China and India become the World’s economic superpowers by mid-century …

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Global: Employee health

Employers should be careful not to over-react to press and media reports about the threat of the new coronavirus Covid-19, and we advise companies to limit their actions to the guidelines issued by the CDC …

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Global: Work permits and passports

Although employers routinely undertake checks on the work and residence permits of foreign workers prior to their employment, there are few mechanisms to inform employers if a permit has been revoked …

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Global: I am not a virus

There is a growing danger of discrimination against those of Chinese origin because of the current viral health scare …

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Global: Coronavirus & influenza

The coronavirus – 2019-nCoV (the Wuhan virus) – outbreak in China has seemed to take the world by surprise and employers will be justly concerned about what action they should be taking …

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Global: Employee travel

Employers should take great care over coming months to avoid litigation when responding to an employee’s refusal to visit any country on business because of a perceived risk of a potentially fatal infection …

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Global: Women, Business and the Law 2020, a new World Bank report launched

The World Bank has just published its latest index on the economic empowerment of women in 190 countries worldwide …

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Global: Ban on weedkiller glyphosate

Employers should be aware of the worldwide controversy that surrounds the use of the weedkiller glyphosate (brand name Roundup) …

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