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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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France: Parental leave entitlements for working parents
Employers are reminded that employees may take parental leave for up to 310 working days over a period of 3 years if their child is sick, disabled, has a serious accident, or needs medical care … Please login to view …
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European Union: 41% of people employed as scientists and engineers are women (2022)
41% of people employed as scientists and engineers were women in 2022 … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Denmark: Getting the numbers right
Pay negotiators commonly suffer from the same inability to “do the math”, especially when it comes to staged pay increases … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Gulf States: The Abu Dhabi Dialogue
A meeting between officials and ministers of 16 Asian States took place recently in Abu Dhabi as part of an ongoing “dialogue” … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Luxembourg: 2023 Political leave compensation
Companies employing an elected communal representative may submit an application to the Ministry of Home Affairs to recover the remuneration paid to the employee during their periods of time off for public duties … Please login to view this content …
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Irish Republic: Sudden service sector drop in activity (January 2024)
Demand in the service sector stood at a 35-month low in January 2024 … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Finland: Specialist and EU Blue card thresholds
The monthly salary threshold for permits in the “specialist” category have risen from €3,437 to €3,638 … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Estonia: Weekly working time changes still not universally observed
In March 2023 the European Court of Justice ruled in case C-477/21 that daily and weekly rest periods must not be taken at the same time, but consecutively … Please login to view this content or become a member by …
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