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Taiwan: Inflation rate eases to 6-month low (January 2024)
Although consumer prices continued to rise in January 2024 to an annual rate of 1 … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Sri Lanka: Proposed labour law reforms
A number of important changes have recently been proposed by the government … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Italy: Unjust damage to a company’s reputation
An employee committed “irreparable damage to the fiduciary bond at the basis of the employment relationship” when they made wild accusations against their employer in the presence of colleagues … Please login to view this content or become a member …
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Kuwait: Issuance of visit visas for family resumed
Those foreign workers who wish to apply for visas for visits by parents, a spouse or children must now earn a monthly salary of at least KD 400 (US$1,298) … Please login to view this content or become a member …
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Singapore: Higher compensation limits
Under the Work Injury Compensation Act, compensation limits will next be adjusted on 1st November 2025 … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Canada: Where may online workers picket?
The Alberta Labour Relations Code specifies that picketing during a labour relations dispute is limited to the employer’s location … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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South Africa: Immigration concession extended until 30th June 2024
The temporary concession allowing foreign nationals who have pending long-term visas, waivers, and appeal applications to continue to reside and work in the country on their current visa has been extended until 30th June 2024 … Please login to view …
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Vietnam: Call for reduced workweeks
The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour is pressing the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) to limit the working week to 48 hours … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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New Zealand: Cautious wage increase (1st April 2024)
Starting from 1st April 2024, up to 145,000 workers who work 40 hours a week will earn an extra $18 each week before tax, as the adult minimum wage will be increased by 2% to $23 … Please login to …
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USA: FTC turns its attention to misclassification of workers
Employers must beware of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s widening interest in a range of labour-related practices … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Puerto Rico: New limits on qualified retirement plans
The Treasury Department has published 2024 annual upper limits which include $275,000 for defined benefit plans, $69,000 for contribution limits and $345,000 as the new compensation limit plans qualifying under Section 1081 … Please login to view this content or …
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Indonesia: Dual citizenship
The general election was held on 14th February 2024 … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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United Kingdom: GDP shrinks 0.3% in Q4 2023
FedEE has calculated that the UK economy has been in fairly deep recession for at least the last fifteen months, but only now has the UK government been forced to reveal that recession has actually arrived … Please login to …
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Italy: Carrying out work elsewhere during sick leave is a cause for dismissal
The Supreme Court has declared that if an employee is formally on sick leave for one job, but found to be working elsewhere, then the employer regarding them as sick and unable to work may dismiss them, even if they …
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Germany: Discredited Works Council resolutions stand
What happens if a works council is found to have gained office through irregularities in the election process? According to the Saxon State Labour Court, this gives rise to the council election being “ineffective”, but not necessarily being void … …
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