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Puerto Rico: New deal for non-doms
There is at last one place in the world where no labour laws apply – at least for some employees … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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South Africa: Hourly wage minimum (March 2024)
With effect from 1st March 2024, the national minimum wage per ordinary hour will be increased to 27 … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Kuwait: New rules for modifying expat work visas
It is now prohibited to modify expatriates’ personal data, such as their name, date of birth and nationality, directly on the existing work permits once they are issued … Please login to view this content or become a member by …
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USA: J&M Industries to pay $105,000 to settle EEOC age discrimination lawsuit
A Louisiana manufacturing and distribution company, J&M Industries, has been ordered to pay a former female employee $105,000 in compensation for being fired when she refused to retire at age 65 … Please login to view this content or become …
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Canada: BC workplace injury duties
Employers in British Columbia now have a duty to cooperate with each other and with WorksafeBC following a workplace injury … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Indonesia: Tightening payment rights for fixed-term contract terminations
A recent circular letter to District Courts and Courts of Appeal from the Supreme Court contains new instructions concerning labour law cases … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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United Kingdom: Improved redundancy protection
From 6th April 2024 pregnant workers will be subject to protection from being laid off … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Italy: Dispute initiated between OpenAI and Italian Data Protection Authority
The Italian Guarantor for the Protection of Personal Data has served a notice against the system “ChatGPT” relating to a whole string of alleged infringements of the law … Please login to view this content or become a member by …
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Germany: Court steps in to declare what is operationally appropriate
The Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Labour Court has confirmed the judgement of a lower court which declared as unlawful the policy of a retail group which required that all branch managers operate on a full-time contractual basis … Please login to …
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France: Gender equality index
Companies with 50+ employees are reminded that they must prepare annual pay gap reports and publish them on their website by 1st March … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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European Union: Online course participation (2023)
A Eurostat survey in 2023 found that 30% of Internet users aged 16 to 74 completed an online course, or used online learning materials during the three months prior to the survey date … Please login to view this content …
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Denmark: Training allowance for people with work-related injuries
For many years the ‘Act on Compensation for Disabled Persons in Employment’ has offered support for disabled people who wish to be economically active … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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European Union: Controlling the uncontrollable
That part of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which concerns itself with international data transfers is easily one of the least effective and pointless parts of the regulation … Please login to view this content or become a member …
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Mongolia: Revised new minimum wage (2024)
The monthly statutory minimum wage has been increased from 1st January 2024 by 20%, to 660,000 Mongolian tugriks … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Italy: Taking annual leave between two periods of sick leave
If an employee requests annual leave immediately following a period of sickness absence and then resumes sick leave as soon as they are due to return to work, then if their employer counts the intermediate leave as part of the …
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